They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

Genre : DramaActionThrillerCrimeMystery

Runtime : 108 mins

Release Date : 1970-07-10

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Wait... he's in Frisco now? How did that happen and where did his family come from and... you know what, forget about it, I'm pretty sure that this was a completely different movie and they just changed the character to Tibbs to ride on the coat tails of In the Heat of the Night... ... because ...

If this were to be taken out of the context of a sequel to "In the Heat of the Night" then it might have made for a decent enough American cop drama. However, Sidney Poitier's attempt to reprise his character from that earlier film rather falls flat. An expensive hooker is found murdered and "Mr. T...