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

John Patrick
Writer

Sol M. Wurtzel
Producer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
prison
american football
Wiki.
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 that the plot revolves around from baseball to football.