In the Heat of the Night (1967)

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film "In the Heat of the Night" is an adaptation of John Ball's 1965 novel. All significant characters, including Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie, retain the same gender as established in the original source material. There are no instances of characters being portrayed on screen with a different gender than their canonical or historical representation.

The film's central characters, Virgil Tibbs and Chief Gillespie, are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with their descriptions in the original novel. No characters established as one race in the source material were depicted as a different race in the film.