Episode 10

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4th Aug 2021

In The Heat Of The Night (1967 Best Picture Winner)

The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night. Directed by Norman Jewison from a script by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novel by John Ball) and starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates and Lee Grant, In the Heat of the Night was nominated for seven Oscars and won five, including Best Picture.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Richard Schickel in Life magazine, John Mahoney in The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/heat-night-review-1967-movie-1026024/), and Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice.

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our producer David Rosen’s pick, Mel Brooks’ The Producers.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.