Build a movie plot around this: In what town did Philip Colbert plan to build a factory? Sparta Mississippi
Phillip Colbert, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago is constructing a factory in Sparta, Mississippi. One night, when driving back into town (after a meeting in the plantation home of one of Sparta's leading citizens, a Mr. Arthur Endicott), to the hotel where he and his wife are staying during the plant's construction; he's murdered. His body is found on the pavement at the front of an alley's entrance onto, Sparta's Main Street. Sparta Policeman Sam Wood discovers the body, during his motor patrol of Sparta, on the second-half of the first shift (11:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m.), about 3:30 a.m. White police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) arrives on the scene where the body has been discovered and begins by taking direct charge of the investigation. A local undertaker and free-lance photographer, have been summoned to the scene to assist the police; to take photographs, and do their best to support the beginning of the investigation. The undertaker tells Gillespie (crucially incorrectly), that it is his immediate guesstimate, that the death has occurred no more than a couple of hours earlier, than the time of the body's discovery by Wood, between say, 12:30 and 01:30 a.m. Gillespie is also told by Wood that his patrol; overall has been quiet, without incident, and with no one seen ("I mean not even a cat", is his quote). But Gillespie, speculating that the crime may have been committed by a transient (and having been wrongly advised of the probable time of death; as being no more than a couple of hours earlier), orders Wood to go back on his patrol and verify that the pool hall is closed (its hours had it open until 12:30 a.m.); the streets and alleyways are clear; and that the train and bus depots, are cleared as well.Officer Wood in rechecking the train depot (where the ticket, freight, and baggage offices are all closed, and the station is unmanned); finds (in the still open waiting room), an African-American northerner Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), sitting quietly with his luggage, and in a business suit...