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Up the River is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Alfred L. Werker released in USA on 9 december 1938 with Preston Foster

Up the River (1938)

Up the River
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Released in USA 9 december 1938
Length 1h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating61% 3.083273.083273.083273.083273.08327

Up the River (1938) is a prison comedy film starring Preston Foster and Arthur Treacher and featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The movie was directed by Alfred L. Werker and is a remake of a 1930 film with the same title directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in the roles subsequently played by Foster and Tony Martin.

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Actors

Preston Foster

('Chipper' Morgan)Tony Martin

(Tommy Grant)Phyllis Brooks

(Helen Lindsay)Slim Summerville

(Slim Nelson)Arthur Treacher

(Darby Randall)
And :
Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Eddie Collins
Jane Darwell
Sidney Toler
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