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NITED STATES DEPARTMENT JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTI ATION Cleveland, Ohio August 1, 1968 In Reply, Plssse Refer to File No. MOTION PICTURE ENTITLED "UP TIGHT" A source, who.holds a responsible position in the. motion picture industry and who is in an excellent position to have first hand.information on the follouing facts, is now owned by Gul? and Western Industries. Mr. Charles. Bluhdorn, head of Gulf and Western Industries, recently arranged for Jules Dassin to produce a picture based upon. the book, the picture to be entitled,. "Retrayal. b6 b7C of this piexure ana to have complete control of it. (See characterization of Jules Dassin. on page 27of this letter). ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED Source stated that the picture involves the. Negro neighborhood and Negro activities in Cleveland, Ohio,. and portrays two distinct groups o? Negroes, being the. group, both groups attempting to obtain civil rights for. Negroes through their respective means. The picture starts with the militant violent group .stealing guns and.ammunition. from gun shops, and the implication is that this stealing is condoned. The picture ends with the principal character, DATE Tank, who is connected with the nilitant group, walking across a bridge at a steel company, junping ofr, and committing suicide. Source said that the obvious con- clusion one draws Irom the ending is that the racial. APPROPRIATE AG. AND FIELD OEICES DECLA ADTCTT STIPIF: /5/77 ON DATE ENCLOSURE E.38/5y..