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  1. 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.

  2. Hold 'Em Jail: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong. Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

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    • Comedy, Sport
    • Norman Taurog
    • 1932-09-16
  3. Hold ’Em Jail. 1932. Directed by Norman Taurog. They turn the Big House into the Bug House! Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden’s championship team. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.

    • Norman Taurog
    • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • Hold ‘Em Jail: The Big House Meets The Big Game
    • Proof That It’S Pre-Code
    • Trivia & Links
    • Awards, Accolades & Availability

    The typical comedy team of the early 1930s existed as simple agents of manic chaos. While there were layers to how connected to reality these teams could get– the Marx Brothers strove for surrealism, Laurel and Hardy for simple slapstick– but few traversed these different levels with as much ease as Burt Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. With Cracked Nut...

    This is actually one of the least risque of the comedic duo’s output. Here’s one line that goes a bit far:

    Edward Watz in his Wheeler and Woolsey companion calls Hold ‘Em Jail “an achingly funny distillation [of prison dramas]”. Likening it to more of a Three Stooges vehicle than the Marx Brothers film...

    This film is available from Warner Archive as part of their 9-movie Wheeler and Woolsey collection. You can also grab it via Amazon or nab it on Classicflix.

  5. Two salesmen sent to jail on trumped-up charges build a prison football team.

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