Up the River
Up the River
Release: 1938-12-09
·Runtime: 75m
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
Phyllis Brooks
as Helen Lindsay
Slim Summerville
as Slim Nelson
Bill Robinson
as Memphis Jones
Edward Gargan
as Tiny
Charles D. Brown
as Warden Harris
Preston Foster
as 'Chipper' Morgan
Arthur Treacher
as Darby Randall
Eddie Collins
as Fisheye Conroy
Jane Darwell
as Mrs. Graham
Sidney Toler
as Jeffrey Mitchell
Tony Martin
as Tommy Grant
