Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
August 19, 1932Release Date
Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
August 19, 1932Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Bert Wheeler
Curley Harris
Robert Woolsey
Spider Robbins
Edna May Oliver
Violet Jones
Roscoe Ates
Slippery Sam Brown
Robert Armstrong
The Radio Announcer
Edgar Kennedy
Warden Elmer Jones
Norman Taurog
Director
Walter DeLeon
Writer
Betty Grable
Barbara Jones
S.J. Perelman
Writer
Warren Hymer
Steele
Paul Hurst
Butch
Eddie Welch
Writer
Tim Whelan
Writer
G. Pat Collins
Whitey
Lew Lupton
Writer
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Hold 'Em Jail is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Wheeler and Woolsey. They play a couple of boobs who are wrongfully convicted for firearm possession and sent to prison, where they somehow end up playing on the warden's football team.
Warden Edgar Kennedy is not above framing innocent people into prison and blackmailing them into playing on his football team in exchange for being eventually proven innocent.
Wheeler and Woolsey are wise to the racket, but Kennedy has to treat them with kid gloves because his old maid sister (Oliver) is in love with one of them.
Rare for the duo, the film is a straight comedy with no musical numbers. It is also noteworthy for giving Betty Grable her first substantial role after appearances as a Goldwyn Girl and in bit parts. The title is a pun on the then-popular college football cheer, "Hold 'em, Yale."