The Organization (film)
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| Directed by | Don Medford |
| Produced by | Walter Mirisch |
| Written by | John Ball James Webb |
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Sidney Poitier Barbara McNair |
| Music by | Gil Melle |
| Cinematography | Joseph Biroc |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Organization is a 1971 American film starring Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs. It was the last of the trilogy featuring the police detective Tibbs that had begun with In the Heat of the Night (1967) and continued with They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970). In it Tibbs is called in to hunt down a gang of urban revolutionaries, suspected of a series of crimes. The title refers to a drug-trafficking organization Tibbs is pursuing.
Barbara McNair, Sheree North and Raul Julia co-star in the film, directed by Don Medford.
After a break-in at the headquarters of a company, the police are called in. One of the executives has been murdered, and the watchman has been bludgeoned. It is not a simple robbery, the man was killed by shots from two different guns, there are several unexplained facts and nothing was stolen.
Virgil Tibbs (Poitier) is contacted by the group which committed the break-in, stealing four million dollars' worth of heroin. They are urban revolutionaries who explain that the company is a front for drug-dealing. They had hoped the break-in would lead the police to investigate the company itself and want to use the heroin to get to the leaders of the organization. Tibbs arrests the security guard to question him, but he is murdered while in the police car.
Tibbs agrees to help the group, if they co-operate with him. One member of the group is hunted down and beaten by the drug-pushers, another is murdered. Tibbs himself comes under suspicion from his superiors when the narcotics division tie him to these stolen drugs, he is removed from the case, and suspended.
He persuades one of his colleagues to help him with information on the bogus company behind the drug traffic. One of the revolutionaries, Juan, contacts the drug dealers and offers them the drugs back for $500,000. He sets it up smartly, proposing to exchange the first half of the drugs for half the money, with an exchange with identical suitcases in a very busy square.
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