Up the River

Komedie, USA, 1938, 75 min.



On an ocean liner heading to the United States, an American named George Lawson meets Englishman Ronald Barclay at the ship's bar and invites him to play blackjack at his suite. Barclay drops his wallet, and it is found by another American, Rex Parmalee. Parmalee returns the wallet and joins the two men for a poker game. When the boat docks, after three days of gambling, Lawson has lost $6,000 to Parmalee and $17,000 to Barclay. After insisting that they accept his checks, Lawson offers them a ride in his limousine, and they arrive at a police station, where Lawson reveals that he is really Clarence Willis, a police officer. He then arrests Parmalee and Barclay, who are really the infamous con artists Chipper Morgan and Darby Randall, respectively. Morgan and Randall are sent "up the river" to Rockwell prison, where they discover, to their dismay, that Willis has been appointed the new warden. Willis assigns them to the sweeping detail, and they are put into the same cell with Slim Nelson, the coach of the football team, and Tommy Grant, who is to be paroled soon. Tommy is looking forward to marrying Helen Lindsay, who is serving time in a reformatory because they got mixed up with con artists Jeffrey Mitchell and Ray Douglas and took the rap for them. After Willis sees that Morgan and Randall have significantly improved Slim's football team, he agrees to take them off the sweeping detail and places a $100 bet with Warden Harris, from a rival prison, on their upcoming game. When Helen is released, she goes to stay with Tommy's mother, who knows nothing of her prison record and thinks that she met her son in Shanghai, where, she believes, Tommy still is. Helen learns that Mitchell and Douglas have sold phony investment plans to nearly everyone in town and are about to close a deal with Tommy's mother. When Helen threatens to expose them, they point out the harm that will come if Tommy's past is found out, particularly as Tommy's sister is engaged to marry the mayor's son. Helen visits Tommy in prison and informs him of the situation, and he tells his cellmates that he wants to break out to help his mother. After the prisoners put on a "Frolics" show, Chipper slugs Tommy, so that he cannot escape. Dressed in women's clothes used for the show, Chipper and Randall then leave with the audience after shutting off the lights. When Tommy's parole is taken away because of the breakout, Slim tells Willis about the situation. Worried that the team will lose the next day without Chipper and Randall, Willis travels to Tony's hometown. Meanwhile, Chipper and Randall have contacted Helen, and they arrange to con Mitchell and Douglas into thinking that the townspeople are going to lynch them. Willis and his assistant Tiny break up the ruse, but when Chipper threatens to lose the game unless Willis gets Mitchell and Douglas out of town, Tiny hits Douglas over the head and Willis gives the crooks' money to Helen to return to her neighbors. Chipper and Randall arrive back at prison with one play left in the game. Randall gets the idea to have everyone on the team carry balloons that look like footballs, and while the others on the team are being tackled, Randall, Chipper and Tommy get the real ball across the goal line to win and make the day the happiest in Slim's life.
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Režie: Alfred L. Werker
Herci: Preston Foster, Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooksová, Slim Summerville, Arthur Treacher, více...

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