Up the River (1938)
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.
- Date of release
- 1938-12-09
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Alfred L. Werker
Casting
- 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
- Sidney Toler — Jeffrey Mitchell
- Bill Robinson — Memphis Jones
- Edward Gargan — Tiny
- Dorothy Dearing — Martha Graham
- Charles D. Brown — Warden Harris
Interesting facts
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.
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