The Organization (film)

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 drugtrafficking organization Tibbs is pursuing.

After a breakin 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 organization which committed the breakin, stealing four million dollars worth of heroin. They are urban revolutionaries who explain that the company is a front for drugdealing. They had hoped the breakin 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. ........

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