<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> Phillip Colbert, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is constructing a factory in Sparta, Mississippi . One night in September 1966, when driving back into town after a meeting at the plantation home of one of Sparta's leading citizens, Eric Endicott, he is murdered . His body is found on the pavement at the front of an alley's entrance onto Main Street by Police Officer Sam Wood at about 3: 30 a.m. </P>

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