Up the River (1930) | |
| Director(s) | John Ford |
| Producer(s) | William Fox (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
| Top Topics | |
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Up the River (1930) was a Comedy - Crime Film directed by John Ford and produced by William Fox.
SYNOPSIS
Tracy's first screen appearance (and Bogart's second) in a prison comedy by Ford. Ex-con Tracy gets himself and former cellmate Hymer thrown back into a pen, only this time it's a comfy medium-security prison with lots of athletics, amateur theatricals, and romance with the women just over the wall. They're joined by cellmate Bogart, who gets mixed up in a romance with Luce and a blackmail plot by Wallace.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
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Up the River – 1930
By Bogart Fan on Jun 10, 2013 From The Bogie Film BlogMy Rating —Worth a Watch—? Your Bogie Fix: ?out of 5 Bogies! Director: ?John Ford The Lowdown Two inmates (Spencer Tracy and Warren Hymer) escape prison to help a recently released convict (Humphrey Bogart) who?s being blackmailed. What I Thought This is one of the few Bogart films that ... Read full article
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Quotes from Up the River
Saint Louis: [Voice rising with emotion] Let me tell ya', that's no picnic, kid! Listenin' to the drone of that lousy motor and watchin' those lights go dim...
Saint Louis: [pauses to let the words sink in] Steve, come on, don't be a sap.
Saint Louis: Steve, you're on the square with Judy, aren't ya'?
Steve Jordan: You bet I am!
Saint Louis: That's all we wanted to know.
Saint Louis: Well?
Dannemora Dan: Well, I ain't gonna go through with it, I tell you.
Saint Louis: Now, listen. I never break my word, and I gave my word to Judy - and we're goin' to New England, and we're goin' tonight!
Man: I can't go to New England, not tonight. I'm in the finale.
Man: [offscreen] Oh, St. Louis! What's the use?
Saint Louis: Say, if you don't do like I tell yuh, it's gonna be your finale!
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Facts about Up the River
This is the first John Ford film in which Spencer Tracy appeared: their second collaboration took place three decades later, when Tracy starred in Ford's The Last Hurrah. It is strange to realize that these two great Irish American icons only collaborated two times (Tracy narrated How the West Was Won, one of the sequences of which was shot by Ford, but that doesn't count as a true collaboration), but for most of their careers, they were bound to different studios, Ford to 20th Century-Fox and Tracy to M.G.M. By the time the freelance era rolled around in the late 1950s, Tracy was appearing in very few movies.
Broadway producer Herman Shumlin granted Spencer Tracy two weeks leave from his hit drama "The Last Mile" after the actor appealed to him for the opportunity to work for John Ford in this picture.
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