Raymond St. Jacques
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In Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters riot in the streets. Johnny Wells, a charismatic black revolutionary, leads a group of black men on a mission to steal guns from a warehouse as preparation for violent racial conflict. Johnny's best friend Tank, who formerly worked at the steel mill with ...
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.
- (1K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Jules Dassin
- 1968-12-28
Brief Synopsis. 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,
Based in part on John Ford's The Informer and using the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as its backdrop, this film directed by Jules Dassin is a gripping drama about guilt and how one event (in this case, a tragic one) may affect the perception of a group or society as a whole.
- (2.8K)
- Marlukin, Paramount
- Jules Dassin
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.
Mar 25, 2021 · An incendiary adaptation of John Ford’s Pabst-like expressionist film The Informer (1935), Uptight features an all-Black cast and transposes a tale of the Irish Troubles to the era of Black liberation. Dee recounts the ease with which she worked with the director, Jules Dassin, and the satisfaction she derived from the writing process.
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Overview. Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own. Jules Dassin. Director, Writer. Liam O'Flaherty. Novel. Ruby Dee.
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