They Call Me Mister Tibbs

Production dates and credits taken from Variety and AFI.; Based on the character created by John Dudley Ball.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Director of photography, Gerald Finnerman ; art, Addison Hehr ; editors, Bud Molin, Irving Rosenblum ; music, Quincy Jones.; American Film Institute Catalog: feature films, 1961-1970 p. 1088.; Variety Film Reviews, 07/08/70.; Sidney Poitier (Virgil Tibbs), Martin Landau (Rev. Logan Sharpe), Barbara McNair (Valerie Tibbs), Anthony Zerbe (Rice Weedon), Jeff Corey (Captain Marden), David Sheiner (Herbert Kenner), Juano Hernandez (Mealie), Norma Crane (Marge Garfield), Edward Asner (Woody Garfield), Ted Gehring (Sergeant Deutsch), Beverly Todd (Puff), Linda Towne (Joy Sturges), George Spell (Andrew Tibbs), Wanda Spell (Ginger Tibbs), Garry Walberg (Medical examiner).; Detective Virgil Tibbs has been assigned to solve the murder of a prostitute. His pal, a political-minded minister who is spearheading a referendum on community control, is suspected of the homicide and Tibbs is faced with the decision of whether or not to invesigate.

Detective Virgil Tibbs is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute. A prime suspect is Rev. Logan Sharpe, a liberal street preacher and political organizer. Sharpe confesses but requests Tibbs give him some time to complete his work on one last political issue. Told this wouldn't be possible, Sharpe takes his own life.