--- title: 'Up Tight! (1968)' type: 'film' director: 'Jules Dassin' released: '1968-12-28' runtime_minutes: 104 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/up-tight-1968' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063748/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Up Tight! (1968) 1968 · 104 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis 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. The soundtrack was performed by Booker T. & the MG's. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is used as a backdrop for the film's fictional narrative. ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [Ruby Dee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruby-dee), [Julian Mayfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/julian-mayfield), [Jules Dassin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-dassin) - **Director:** [Jules Dassin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-dassin) - **Producer:** [Jules Dassin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-dassin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Booker T. Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/booker-t-jones) - **Director of Photography:** [Boris Kaufman](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-kaufman) - **Editor:** [Robert Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lawrence) ## Cast - [Roscoe Lee Browne](https://cinepixo.com/people/roscoe-lee-browne) - [Dick Anthony Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-anthony-williams) - [Raymond St. Jacques](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-st-jacques) - [John Wesley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wesley) - [Juanita Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/juanita-moore) - [Frank Silvera](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-silvera) - [Ruby Dee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruby-dee) - [Janet MacLachlan](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-maclachlan) - [Julian Mayfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/julian-mayfield) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/up-tight-1968 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3283885); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.