Up the River (1938)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 9, 1938Release Date
Up the River (1938)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 9, 1938Release Date
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Plot.
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
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Cast & Crew.
Preston Foster
'Chipper' Morgan
Tony Martin
Tommy Grant
Phyllis Brooks
Helen Lindsay
Slim Summerville
Slim Nelson
Arthur Treacher
Darby Randall
Eddie Collins
Fisheye Conroy
Jane Darwell
Mrs. Graham
Alan Dinehart
Warden Clarence Willis
Sidney Toler
Jeffrey Mitchell
Bill Robinson
Memphis Jones
Edward Gargan
Tiny
Dorothy Dearing
Martha Graham
Charles D. Brown
Warden Harris
Alfred L. Werker
Director
Sol M. Wurtzel
Producer
Samuel Kaylin
Music / Music Director
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Up the River is a 1938 American prison comedy film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Preston Foster and Arthur Treacher and featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The film is a remake of a 1930 film with the same name directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in the roles subsequently played by Foster and Tony Martin. The remake changed the sport the plot revolves around from baseball to football.