03 Aug 1979
North Dallas Forty
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Up the River
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
Top Billed Cast
Preston Foster 'Chipper' Morgan
Tony Martin Tommy Grant
Phyllis Brooks Helen Lindsay
Slim Summerville Slim Nelson
Arthur Treacher Darby Randall
Eddie Collins Fisheye Conroy
Jane Darwell Mrs. Graham
Sidney Toler Jeffrey Mitchell
Bill Robinson Memphis Jones
Edward Gargan Tiny
Dorothy Dearing Martha Graham
Charles D. Brown Warden Harris
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