The Thingborrowed authentic scientific equipment from Cal Tech (the Geiger-Muller counter, for example) o supplement its crude special effects, and electronics companies were consulted before filming.C.A young patriot, recites Lincoln and Jefferson, turned loose in our nation""s capital.Yeah.I think it""s all right.A "star-spangled banquet" is held to honor he new appointment and provide a proper send-off - the honor is given not to "some wealthy influential citizen merely to curry favor" or to an "unworthy political hireling.The Sheriff haughtily interrogated he nattily-dressed suspect with an insulting introductory question - his first interaction with Tibbs:Sheriff: Got a name, boy?Virgil: Virgil Tibbs.In the decade of the 60s,My Fair Ladyjoined two other highly praised, big box-office films when it won the Academy Award for Best Picture (as didWest Side Story (1961)andThe Sound of Music (1965)).