Comedy

Up the River

Name: Up the River
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1938-12-09
Rating: 10.0
Cast: Preston Foster, Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks, Slim Summerville, Arthur Treacher

10.0(1) 12/9/1938 1h 15m

Comedy

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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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

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