Hold 'Em Jail
Hold 'Em Jail is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Wheeler and Woolsey. They play a couple of boobs who are wrongfully convicted for firearm possession and sent to prison, where they somehow end up playing on the warden's football team.
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| Directed by | Norman Taurog |
| Produced by | Harry Joe Brown (associate producer) David O. Selznick (executive producer) |
| Written by | Walter DeLeon (screenplay) S.J. Perelman (screenplay) Eddie Welch (screenplay) Mark Sandrich (screenplay) Tim Whelan (story) Lew Lipton (story) John P. Medbury (radio dialogue) Albert Ray (continuity) |
| Starring | Wheeler and Woolsey Edna May Oliver Edgar Kennedy Betty Grable |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Leonard Smith |
| Edited by | Arthur Roberts |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | September 16, 1932 |
Running time | 66 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $408,000[1] |
| Box office | $511,000[1] |
Rare for the duo, it's a straight comedy with no musical numbers. The title is a pun on the then-popular college cheer, "Hold 'em, Yale."
Cast
- Bert Wheeler as Curly Harris
- Robert Woolsey as Spider Robbins
- Edna May Oliver as Violet Jones
- Robert Armstrong as Radio Announcer
- Roscoe Ates as Sam
- Edgar Kennedy as Warden Elmer Jones
- Betty Grable as Barbara Jones
- Warren Hymer as Steele
- Paul Hurst as Butch
- G. Pat Collins as Whitey
- Stanley Blystone as Kravette
- Jed Prouty as Warden Charles Clark
- Spencer Charters as the Governor
- John Sheehan as Mike Maloney
Box office
According to RKO records the film recorded a loss of $55,000.[1]
References
- Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p57
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