Hold 'Em Jail
They turn the Big House into the Bug House!
1932 | 66m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Norman Taurog |
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| Writer: | Eddie Welch, Lew Lupton, Walter DeLeon, S.J. Perelman, Tim Whelan, Mark Sandrich |
| Staring: |
| Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 19, 1932 |
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| Director: | Norman Taurog |
| Writer: | Eddie Welch, Lew Lupton, Walter DeLeon, S.J. Perelman, Tim Whelan, Mark Sandrich |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | prison, american football, pre-code |
| Production Companies | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 01, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Hugh McDowell Jr. | Sound |
| Eddie Welch | Screenplay |
| Lew Lupton | Story |
| Leonard Smith | Director of Photography |
| Walter DeLeon | Screenplay |
| Carroll Clark | Art Direction |
| S.J. Perelman | Screenplay |
| Arthur Roberts | Editor |
| James Daly | Assistant Camera |
| Fred Bentley | Camera Operator |
| Albert Scheving | Assistant Camera |
| Norman Taurog | Director |
| Tim Whelan | Story |
| Mark Sandrich | Screenplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Harry Joe Brown | Associate Producer |
| David O. Selznick | Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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