Up the River

Up the River

75 mins | Comedy | Dec. 9, 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.

Up the River

75 mins | Comedy | Dec. 9, 1938

Up the River
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.
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Up the River
Directors Alfred L. Werker
Writers Maurine Dallas Watkins, John Patrick, Lou Breslow

Cast

Preston Foster

as 'Chipper' Morgan

Tony Martin

as Tommy Grant

Phyllis Brooks

as Helen Lindsay

Slim Summerville

as Slim Nelson

Arthur Treacher

as Darby Randall

Eddie Collins

as Fisheye Conroy

Jane Darwel

as Mrs. Graham

Sidney Toler

as Jeffrey Mitchell

Bill Robinson

as Memphis Jones

Edward Gargan

as Tiny

Dorothy Dearing

as Martha Graham

Charles D. Brown

as Warden Harris