Hold 'Em Jail
“They turn the Big House into the Bug House!”
1932•NR•1h 6m•6.8•Released
Comedy
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
Mark Sandrich, Walter DeLeon, Eddie Welch, S.J. Perelman
Languages
English
Studio
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast
Bert Wheeler
Curley Harris
Robert Woolsey
Spider Robbins
Edna May Oliver
Violet Jones
Robert Armstrong
Sports Announcer Inmate
Roscoe Ates
Slippery Sam Brown
Edgar Kennedy
Warden Elmer Jones
Betty Grable
Barbara Jones
Warren Hymer
Steele
Paul Hurst
Butch
G. Pat Collins
Whitey
Jed Prouty
Lynwood Warden Charles Clark
Spencer Charters
Governor
John Sheehan
Mike Maloney
Ward Bond
Football Player (uncredited)
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