Uptight is a 1968 English-language Drama Thriller motion picture written by Jules Dassin, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield and Liam O'flaherty. The movie is directed by Jules Dassin and produced by Jules Dassin, Ruby Dee and Jim Di Gangi. Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, The Informer.. Uptight features Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield, Janet Maclachlan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Frank Silvera and Marvin Walters. Cinematography was done by Boris Kaufman and editing by Robert Lawrence. The motion picture has a running time of 104 minutes. It was released on 28th December 1968. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Paramount Pictures.