Up the River (1930)

IMDb plot summary: When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.

Directed by John Ford. Starring Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, and Warren Hymer.

Up the River is a 1930 movie starring a very young Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, among others, as convicts either paroled or escaped and trying to make their way in the outside world. I kind of hoped that the big name stars would help me hold interest in the story, but for the most part it still didn't. I had to look over the Wikipedia synopsis while writing this review to remind me of any of the actual details of the plot, and even then they're pretty fuzzy. The parts that are most interesting are the ones involving Humphrey Bogart and the romance he strikes up with one of the inmates in the women's prison, and how that changes once he is released on parole. But the plot is spread thin among other characters and it all ends up feeling kind of disjointed.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Up the River < Bad Education

Up the River < Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...

Up the River > Epic

Up the River > Send Me No Flowers

Up the River < The Secret of My Success

Up the River < Jake's Women

Up the River < VeggieTales: Larry-Boy! & the Fib from Outer Space!

Up the River < The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Up the River < Shrek 2

Up the River < Lincoln

Up the River < Ip Man

Up the River > Basic Instinct

Final spot: #3073 out of 3784, or 19%.