

Up the River
8.52 votes on TMDB1938Movie1h 15m
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.
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
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Dorothy Dearing
Martha Graham

Charles D. Brown
Warden Harris
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