Up the River (1938)
- Directed by
- Alfred L. Werker
- Genre
- comedy film, American football film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Former prisoners now working as guards at a prison help the football team there to train for a big game. They also try to protect a young inmate from outside trouble.
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What happens
Up the River is a 1938 American prison comedy film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Preston Foster and Arthur Treacher and featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The film is a remake of a 1930 film with the same name directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in the roles subsequently played by Foster and Tony Martin. The remake changed the sport that the plot revolves around from baseball to football. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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