In the Heat of the Night: 1967 Best Picture

The Best Picture Oscar for 1967 went to “In the Heat of the Night”, which won 5 of its 7 nominations at the 40th Academy Awards. Rod Steiger won Best Actor and Stirling Silliphant won Best Writing (Adapted). It also won Best Sound and Best Film Editing.

Of the four other Best Picture nominess, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Bonnie and Clyde” were the most nominated films that year with ten each. “Dr. Doolittle” had 9 nominations and “The Graduate” had 7.

Other notable films include: “The Dirty Dozen”, “Cool Hand Luke”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, “Barefoot in the Park”, “In Cold Blood”, “Valley of the Dolls”, “You Only Live Twice”, “To Sir, with Love”, “Camelot”, “Casino Royale” and “Reflections in a Golden Eye”

The 1966 Italo-Algerian film “The Battle of Algiers” (La Battaglia di Algeri) was released in the USA this year. Even so, it was one of the foreign film nominees in 1966. Then after its release, it was again nominated for screen play and direction in 1968, making it the only film in Oscar history to be nominated in two non-consecutive years. It is the most reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes for 1967.

Jeopardy! clues on “In the Heat of the Night”
RAY CHARLES $600: Mr. Charles had a top 70 hit with the title track to this movie that starred Mr. Poitier as Mr. Tibbs
HOT MOVIES $400: Norman Jewison asked Rod Steiger to chew gum, eventually 263 packs, as Police Chief Bill Gillespie in this 1967 film
FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $800: One of the few Best Picture winners whose titles begin with a preposition is this 1967 Rod Steiger film
QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: 1967: “They call me Mr. Tibbs!”
HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $400: A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner

More 1967 film clues:
ON THE SOUNDTRACK $1200: A 1967 film: “Scarborough Fair”, “April Come She Will”
MOVIE SONGS $1600: “The Bare Necessities” is a beary fun tune from this 1967 film
A MOVIE & A MEAL $800: The 3-inch bronze bust of Spencer Tracy featured in this 1967 film was sculpted by his co-star Katharine Hepburn
HELP ME, FONDA $1600: In this 1967 film based on a Neil Simon play, Jane Fonda helps Robert Redford loosen up
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, JOHN & VALERIE $600: There’s an egg-eating contest in this 1967 film; remember it? Or have we got failure to communicate
JAMES BOND $600: Orson Welles played “Le Chiffre” in the campy 1967 version of this Bond film
VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $1000: Sebastian Cabot of “A Family Affair” bagged the role of Bagheera the panther in this 1967 film
_____ AND _____ MOVIES $400: Gene Hackman earned his first Oscar nomination for playing Buck Barrow in this 1967 film
CHIMP-POURRI $400: A song in this 1967 film begins, “If we could just talk to the animals, just imagine it, chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee”
HANGIN’ WITH MY GNOMIES $2000: 2 gnomes, 2 kids & a lumber tycoon set off on a forest adventure in the title vehicle in this 1967 film
POP CULTURE $800: Patty Duke plays a pill-popping movie star in this trashy 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel
YOU’RE JUST “GR”EAT $600: Not only did Buck Henry pen this 1967 coming-of-age film classic, he played a hotel desk clerk, too
WORLD WAR II MOVIES $1600: 1967: Charles Bronson & Jim Brown are 2 of the 12 angry men on a secret mission behind Nazi lines
IN THE MOVIES $800: “The jungle is jumpin’!” was a tagline of this 1967 Disney film classic
A MAN CALLED HARRIS $800: Harris took the throne in the 1967 film version of this Lerner & Loewe musical & starred in a stage revival in the ’80s
NEWMAN’S OWN “H” FILMS $1600: Based on an Elmore Leonard western novel, this 1967 film put Paul in Arizona around 1880
THEATRE $1200: In 1997 in Vienna, he directed the musical “Dance of the Vampires”, based on his 1967 film “The Fearless Vampire Killers”
CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $400: As a circus owner, she caused her daughter to go “Berserk” in that 1967 film; however, no wire hangers were used
WHAT ARE “YOU” DOING? $1000: Double your fun & tell us the name of this 1967 James Bond film
FIVE WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL $200: Dustin Hoffman learns about plastics & then busts up a wedding in this classic 1967 film
MOVIE LAST LINES $500: In this 1967 film Spencer Tracy asks, “Well, Tillie, when the hell are we going to get some dinner?”
GENE WILDER $200: In his first movie, Gene played a mortician kidnapped by Warren Beatty in this 1967 film
MOVIE DEBUTS $200: She made her film debut in “The Way West” in 1967, the year she flew across TV screens as “The Flying Nun”
JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $300: This song was written for a 1967 film: “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio / A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)”
READING, WRITING & ROCK & ROLL $300: The theme to this 1967 Sidney Poitier film was a real “Lulu” of a hit
THAT’S COOL $100: One review of this 1967 film said Newman plays “a tough nut” who “refuses to crack under pressure”
DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $600: He won 1967’s Best Director Oscar for “The Graduate”, which was only his second film
HE WAS IN THAT? $600: Jack Nicholson appeared as a gangster named Gino in this 1967 film set in part on February 14, 1929
ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Don’t blink–or you’ll miss Richard Dreyfuss in this 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel
MOVIE COSTUMES $500: Theadora Van Runkle designed the gun moll getups Faye Dunaway wore in this 1967 film
THE MOVIES $200: The 1967 Sidney Poitier film “To Sir With Love” was directed by this “Shogun” author
SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: He directed his last film, “A Countess from Hong Kong” in 1967, over 50 years after his 1st film
MARLON BRANDO $400: Brando starred in the last film this silent screen legend directed, 1967’s “A Countess From Hong Kong”
FOREIGN FILMS $400: 1996 Oscar winner “Kolya” came from the Czech Republic; 1967’s “Closely Watched Trains”, from this country