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Up the River (1930) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1930 · 85 mins · English
- Directed by
- John Ford
- Starring
- Ward Bond, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Morgan Wallace, Dick Curtis, Robert Parrish
A riotous comedy about life inside adjoining men’s and women’s prison units, where baseball games and a marching band are taken very seriously. When two inmates break out, they aim to protect newly‑paroled Steve, who’s being blackmailed by his girlfriend’s former criminal associate.
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