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  1. Uptight (also known as Up Tight!) is a 1968 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. It was intended as an updated version of John Ford 's 1935 film The Informer, based on the book of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty, but the setting was transposed from Dublin to Cleveland.

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0063748Uptight (1968) - IMDb

    Uptight: Directed by Jules Dassin. With Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne. In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."

    • (1K)
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Jules Dassin
    • 1968-12-28
  3. May 9, 2023 · UPTIGHT (1968) is a remake of John Ford's 1935 film The Informer, set in the gritty streets of 60's Cleveland and directed by Jules Dassin. 💰👥🔪Days after ...

    • 1 min
    • 2.5K
    • Imprint Films
  4. Uptight follows the aftermath of the murder of Martin Luther King Jr but in Cleveland, where a group of black power leaders are split down the middle between continuing to work within the establishment or rejecting it through armed defense.

    • (2.8K)
    • Marlukin, Paramount
    • Jules Dassin
  5. "Up Tight" is a good and interesting film, however, because of isolated elements. It has blunt and direct dialog; it has several powerful performances; It has moments of truth (as when the cops gun down a militant leader, while residents of a project rain down tin cans and invective).

  6. Uptight is a 1968 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. It was intended as an updated version of John Ford's 1935 film The Informer, based on the book of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty, but the setting was transposed from Dublin to Cleveland.

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  8. A desperate African-American man betrays his friend, a black militant leader, for some money to help feed his girlfriend's children, and then becomes the object of a manhunt by the militant group,