DVD
Uptight
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Performers
Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne, Julian Mayfield.
Publication Information
[Saint Charles, IL] : Olive Films, 2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
Summary
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.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel "The informer" by Liam O'Flaherty.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.