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Up the River | |
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Directed by | Alfred L. Werker |
Written by | Lou Breslow John Patrick Maurine Dallas Watkins |
Produced by | Sol M. Wurtzel |
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Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley |
Edited by | Nick DeMaggio |
Music by | Samuel Kaylin |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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 the plot revolves around from baseball to football.[1]