The Organization (1971)

Directed by

Don Medford

Genre

drama film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Police detective Virgil Tibbs pursues a group of urban revolutionaries who are suspected of multiple crimes. He works to track them down across the city.

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What happens

The Organization is a 1971 American crime thriller film starring Sidney Poitier and directed by Don Medford. It was the last of the trilogy featuring the police detective Virgil Tibbs that had begun with In the Heat of the Night (1967), followed by They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970). In The Organization, Tibbs is called in to hunt down a gang of urban revolutionaries, suspected of a series of crimes. The screenplay was penned by James R. Webb, and the film co-stars Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O'Laughlin, Sheree North and Raul Julia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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