Up the River

Year: 1930

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: English

Director: John Ford

CrimeComedy

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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