Surveillance of Jules Dassin's bold movie got even crazier in the wake of MLK's assassination.
While the FBI may have been recently up in arms over the controversial eco-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, their involvement and concern over Hollywood cinema is nothing new, as seen with Jules Dassin’s Uptight, a 1968 film about black militancy that the Federal Bureau of Investigation went so far as to plant informants on set for.
That the script was in a state of constant revision is an understatement, as MLK’s assassination occurred after Dassin had completed most of the film’s production.
Much of the film is centered around debates among the revolutionaries over the extent to which violence is justified against oppression, recalling The Battle of Algiers, a film that came out just two years prior that was so bold in its depiction of a violent revolution that the Black Panthers and the IRA both adapted it into training manuals.
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