 In the Heat of the Night 1967  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Quentin Dean, James Patterson, William Schallert, Scott Wilson, Matt Clark, Anthony James, Larry Gates, Beah Richards
Black Philadelphia homicide detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) visits a backwater Mississippi town. While there, he is mistakenly arrested for murder. When the confusion is resolved, bigoted Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) and Tibbs join forces to investigate a murder. Tibbs teaches Gillespie about crime solving methods and about prejudice. This film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Actor (Steiger) and was nominated for two others, including Best Director.
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Lilith 1964  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman, Anne Meacham, James Patterson, Jessica Walter, Rene Auberjonois, Olympia Dukakis, Robert Reilly, Harvey Jason, Harry Northup, Alice Spivak, Charles Tyner
Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an occupational therapist in a mental hospital whose life is ruined when he becomes involved with a patient, Lilith (Jean Seberg). They begin a passionate affair, and then Vincent learns that Lilith is also having an affair with a woman (Anne Meacham). Meanwhile, another patient, Stephen (Peter Fonda), commits suicide because Lilith will not pay attention to him. When Vincent realizes that he is in danger of losing his own sanity, he seeks help from psychiatrists. But, will it be too late? This is Gene Hackman's film debut.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 1973  R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
aka: Death House
Night of the Dark Full Moon
Director: Theodore Gershuny
Cast: Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, Walter Abel, Fran Stevens, Jay Garner, Lisa Blake Richards, Ondine, Walter Klavun, Harvey Cohen, Tally Brown, Lewis Love, Candy Darling
The owner of a long-empty estate is anxious to sell and sends his lawyer (Patrick O'Neal) to take care of selling the property to the city for a bargain price. The history of the house is told in flashback, revealing that it was once an insane asylum where the cruel doctors had been slain by inmates set free by the owner. The inmates took up residence in the city and now, many years later, an axe-wielding killer is extracting revenge on the former inmates.
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| 1. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
2. Lilith (1964)
3. Silent Night, Bloody Night (1973)
aka: Death House
aka: Night of the Dark Full Moon
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