Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Fort Apache and In the Heat of the Night.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Fort Apache from 1948 and In the Heat of the Night from 1967.
Fort Apache is a 1948 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda.
The film was the first of the director's "cavalry trilogy" and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950), both also starring Wayne.
The screenplay was inspired by James Warner Bellah's short story "Massacre" (1947).
The historical sources for "Massacre" have been attributed both to George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn and to the Fetterman Fight.
The film was one of the first to present an authentic and sympathetic view of Native Americans.
In his review of the DVD release of Fort Apache in 2012, New York Times movie critic Dave Kehr called it "one of the great achievements of classical American cinema, a film of immense complexity that never fails to reveal new shadings with each viewing ... among the first pro-Indian Westerns" that portrays the Native Americans with "sympathy and respect".
The film was awarded the Best Director and Best Cinematography awards by the Locarno International Film Festival of Locarno, Switzerland.
Screenwriter Frank S. Nugent was nominated for best screenplay by the Writers Guild of America.
Directed by: John Ford.
Written by: Frank S. Nugent.
Based on: "Massacre" 1947 story The Saturday Evening Post by James Warner Bellah.
Produced by: Merian C. Cooper and John Ford.
Starring: John Wayne and Henry Fonda.
Cinematography: Archie Stout, ASC.
Edited by: Jack Murray.
Music by: Richard Hageman.
Production company: Argosy Pictures.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release date: 27 March 1948.
File Length: 128 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $2.1 million.
Box office: $3 million (US rentals).
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison.
It is based on John Ball's 1965 novel of the same name and tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi.
It stars Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, and was produced by Walter Mirisch.
The screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant.
At the 40th Academy Awards the film was nominated for seven Oscars, winning five including Best Picture and Best Actor for Steiger.
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.
The film also appears on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, a list of the 100 greatest movies in American cinema.
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".
Directed by: Norman Jewison.
Screenplay by: Stirling Silliphant.
Based on: In the Heat of the Night by John Ball.
Produced by: Walter Mirisch.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates and Lee Grant.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler.
Edited by: Hal Ashby.
Music by: Quincy Jones.
Production company: The Mirisch Corporation.
Distributed by: United Artists.
Release date: 2 August 1967.
File Length: 110 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $2 million.
Box office: $24.4 million.
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