<P> The film won five Academy Awards, including the 1967 awards for Best Picture and Rod Steiger for Best Actor . </P> <P> The film was followed by two sequels, They Call Me Mister Tibbs! in 1970, and The Organization in 1971 . In 1988, it also became the basis of a television series adaptation of the same name . </P> <P> Although the film was set in the fictional Mississippi town of Sparta (with supposedly no connection to the real Sparta, Mississippi), most of the movie was filmed in Sparta, Illinois, where many of the film's landmarks can still be seen . The quote "They call me Mister Tibbs!" was listed as number 16 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, a list of top film quotes . In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". </P> <P> In 1966, a wealthy industrialist named Phillip Colbert has moved from Chicago to Sparta, Mississippi to build a factory . One night, police officer Sam Wood discovers that Colbert has been murdered . </P>

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