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Uptight / Malurkin Productions and Paramount Pictures Corporation ; written, produced and directed by Julie Dassin ; screenplay, Jules Dassin, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield.
LIBRA DVD 023 816
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutionaries--Ohio--Cleveland--Drama.
- Revolutionaries.
- African Americans--Ohio--Cleveland--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Informers--Ohio--Cleveland--Drama.
- Informers.
- Ohio--Cleveland.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Action and adventure films.
- Fiction films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Up tight
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Olive Films, 2012.
- System Details:
- DVD, anamorphic widescreen.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto and the Irish Republicans are replaced by black revolutionary fighters. Days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Tank Williams is an unemployed and itinerant steelworker who turns over his militant friend, Johnny to the police for the $1,000 reward, resulting in an underground all-points bulletin to exact vengeance on the squealer.
- Participant:
- Jason Bernard, Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Roscoe Lee Browne, Julian Mayfield.
- Credits:
- Music scored by Booker T. Jones and performed by Booker T. & the MG's.
- Notes:
- Title from web page.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.
- Release date: Oct. 16, 2012.
- OCLC:
- 809566207
- Publisher Number:
- 887090042505
- OF425 Olive Films
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