The literary protagonist of John Ball’s novel In the Heat of the Night got its cinematic counterpart in Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison’s critically acclaimed and award-winning 1967 adaptation of the same name. The character of detective Virgil Tibbs resurfaced three years later in director Gordon Douglas’s sequel They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and was played yet again by the great Sidney Poitier. Just a little more than a year later, the final movie installment hit theaters, thereby enabling this trilogy to become the first cop film franchise filmed in color to have made it to a third film.
Directed by Don Medford and with a screenplay written by James R. Webb, The Organization follows detective Tibbs as he tries to help a group of revolutionaries prove that the murder of a store manager working at a furniture warehouse was not their fault. The activists broke into the warehouse and stole a hidden supply of heroin with the intent of drawing the police’s attention to the company that acts as a drug trafficking front, as well as using the stolen heroin to get in touch with the leaders of the illicit organization. Medford’s crime thriller is a well-paced film with nicely done action sequences and a few surprising twists and turns, that shows sympathy towards activists who respond to criminal activity and police incompetence by taking matters into their own hands.
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