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In the Heat of the Sun is a 1994 Chinese film directed and written by Jiang Wen. [1] The film is based loosely on author Wang Shuo 's novel Wild Beast . In the Heat of the Sun was Jiang Wen's first foray into directing after years as a leading actor.
Heat of the Sun is a British television crime drama series, created by Russell Lewis and Timothy Prager, that first aired on ITV on 28 January 1998. [1] Set in 1930s Kenya, the series stars Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard criminal investigations officer who is sent to work in Nairobi to reveal the underside of the expatriate community in Kenya, exploring murders ...
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia , who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi .
A Raisin in the Sun: Nominated 1963: Lilies of the Field: Won 1965: A Patch of Blue: Nominated 1967: In the Heat of the Night: Nominated 1968: Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite: Won 1969: Nominated 1970: Nominated 1981: Cecil B. DeMille Award: Received 1991: Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film: Separate but Equal: Nominated
In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on 1965 novel of the same title and the 1967 film of the same name. The TV series starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs .
The name "Shanay-timpishka" means 'boiled by the heat of the sun'—from "shanay" (heat of the sun) and "timpu" (the verb, "to boil"), though the source of the heat is actually geothermal. The most popular name for this site is "Boiling River" or "Río Hirviente" (Spanish). The Boiling River is NOT called, "La Bomba" (The Pump). La Bomba is the ...
The heat of the Sun dooms life on Earth when the Earth's orbit is disrupted in John Hawkins's 1938 short story "Ark of Fire", the 1961 film The Day the Earth Caught Fire, and the 1961 episode "The Midnight Sun" of the television show The Twilight Zone.
Detective Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta for his mother's funeral and joins the police force as chief of detectives. His arrival is met with resistance from police chief Bill Gillespie – who, despite his good relationship with Tibbs, resents having an officer hired without his approval.