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In the Heat of the Night : Virgil's Arrest

Officer Sam Woods (Warren Oates) arrests a lone man (Sidney Potier) waiting for a train for a murder that occurred just hours prior.

Virgil's Arrest

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beat, event, close-up, full shot, hard lighting, match on action, music, nondiegetic, shot/reverse shot, tracking shot

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Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, White: White American

"Virgil's Arrest" in In the Heat of the Night. Directed by Norman Jewison, United Artists, 1967, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2464

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Edwin Cruz-Castillo

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