If there is a single scene to remember from his filmography, it's one from In the Heat of the Night, in which Sidney Poitier, likely playing Hollywood's first Black detective, is slapped by a malevolent plantation owner-and slaps back.
Jewison was famous for his collaborations and for making wildly divergent movies. A 2011 Lincoln Center retrospective on Jewison's work called him a "Relentless Renegade."
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