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

Leonard Smith
Director of Photography
Media.

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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."
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