Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Detective Virgil Tibbs
- Rod Steiger as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
- Warren Oates as Sergeant (Patrolman) Sam Wood
- Lee Grant as Mrs. Leslie Colbert
- Larry Gates as Eric Endicott
- James Patterson as Lloyd Purdy (Delores' brother)
- William Schallert as Mayor Webb Schubert
- Beah Richards as Mama Caleba (aka Mrs. Bellamy)
- Peter Whitney as CPL. George Courtney
- Kermit Murdock as H.E. Henderson (banker)
- Larry D. Mann as Watkins
- Quentin Dean as Delores Purdy
- Anthony James as Ralph Henshaw (diner counterman)
- Arthur Malet as Ted Ulam (mortician)
- Scott Wilson as Harvey Oberst (murder suspect)
- Matt Clark as Packy Harrison
- Eldon Quick as Charlie Hawthorne (photographer)
- Jester Hairston as Henry (Endicott's butler)
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