Up the River

“You bet ~ IT'S FUNNY a movietone laugh riot.”

Two convicts break out of prison, and the reason has nothing to do with freedom. Saint Louis (Spencer Tracy) and Dannemora Dan (Warren Hymer) slip away to rescue the paroled Steve Jordan (Humphrey Bogart) from a blackmailer working on his girlfriend. John Ford sets it among prison units where baseball and the marching band are taken seriously, and the film keeps cutting back to them, the uniforms lined up on the field.