Up the River (1938 film)

Up the River
Up the River
	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 9, 1938
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Up the River is a 1938 American

Tony Martin. The remake changed the sport the plot revolves around from baseball to football.^[1]

Plot

A passenger on a luxury liner ends up in a card game with men who take him for more than $20,000. After docking and graciously offering them a ride in a limousine, the man reveals his real name, Willis, and real identity, police officer, to the two men who swindled him, Chipper Morgan and Darby Randall.

Morgan and Randall are sent to prison, where, to their amazement, Willis is the new warden. Their young cellmate Tommy Grant is on the prison's football team while Tommy's sweetheart Helen Lindsey awaits his parole.

When the team improves significantly thanks to Morgan and Randall and a big game is arranged with a team from another prison, wagers are made, jailbreak schemes are hatched and complications arise. Morgan and Randall are unable to get to the game until the final play, but their touchdown makes the warden happy and their fellow prisoners as happy as prisoners can be.