Up the River (1930)
Note: this print runs 83 minutes against a recorded 92 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Burns, Edythe Chapman, Morgan Wallace, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Directed by John Ford
Up the River is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Luce as well as Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature-film debuts and the only film in which the men appeared together. Fox remade the film in 1938 starring Preston Foster and Tony Martin.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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