Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
August 19, 1932Release Date
Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
August 19, 1932Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Bert Wheeler
Curley Harris
Robert Woolsey
Spider Robbins
Edna May Oliver
Violet Jones
Robert Armstrong
Sports Announcer Inmate
Roscoe Ates
Slippery Sam Brown
Edgar Kennedy
Warden Elmer Jones
Betty Grable
Barbara Jones
Warren Hymer
Steele
Paul Hurst
Butch
G. Pat Collins
Whitey
Jed Prouty
Lynwood Warden Charles Clark
Spencer Charters
Governor
John Sheehan
Mike Maloney
Ward Bond
Football Player (uncredited)
Norman Taurog
Director
Hugh McDowell Jr.
Sound
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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."