Our Classic Cinema with the Sage Sisters installment this week.
It’s 1967 in the small Mississippi town of Sparta. The murder of an important man who is going to build a factory, is discovered. The first suspect is, of course, the black man waiting for a train. But the local police find out he’s a police officer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And he’s a homicide expert. They don’t want him, but they need him to solve the murder.
This is an iconic Sidney Poitier film, also starring Rod Steiger who won the Academy Award for best actor. The film also won best picture, along with three other awards. This movie is also on the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress and in the Criterion Collection. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do since much of what happens is still happening today.
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