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.
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Cast
- 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
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