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"RIO ARRIBA" (UP THE RIVER)
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Director: John Ford
Intérpretes:
Spencer Tracy ... Saint Louis
Claire Luce ... Judy
Warren Hymer ... Dannemora Dan
Humphrey Bogart ... Steve
William Collier Sr. ... Pop
Joan Marie Lawes ... Jean
Género: Comedia / Drama / Crimen
Pais: USA
Sinopsis: Dos prisioneros se escapan de la cárcel para ayudar a una pareja que, tras cumplir su condena, se instaló en una pequeña localidad para que nadie conociera su oscuro pasado. Ahora la pareja ve amenazada su felicidad por un deshonesto vendedor que quiere implicar al hombre en sus fraudulentas actividades
Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford
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Ford made a film in 1930 whose style was more in keeping with the relaxed, spontaneousmode of film making that characterizes the best of his later work. Seldom revived today, Up the river is an utterly delightful, disarmingly offbeat lampoon of the prison movie genre.
Fox originally commisoned a serious study of prison from screenwriter Maurine Watkins, then dropped the project when MGM released its successful drama The Big house. Ford managed to revive the studio interest in Up the river by turning it into an absurdist comedy about a midwestern penetentiary where life is so convivial that two escapees break back in for the big baseball game against a rival prison. The director did an uncredit rewrite with William Collier Sr., the veteran actor who plays Pop, the prison's satly but wise old lifer.Collier recieved another of those vague "staged by" credits, in this case perhaps a backhanded acknowledgement of his role as script doctor and gag writer.
Although the jocular Up the river in many ways represents the antithesis of the Dudley Nichols approach to filmmaking, it has thematic and structural affinities with Ford's dramatic films about men testing their character in isolated fortresses.But it does so in a breezy, offhanded, often ironic manner, brimming over with what Ford likes to call "grace notes". By that he meant directorial touches, often nonverbal, that reveal character or capture emotion. such frissions are the cinematic equivalant of the compressed, allusive phrasing of lyric poetry. In his best work, Ford values these seeming digressions above the laborious necessities of narrative.
Up the river was Spencer Tracy's first feature film and Humphrey Bogart's second. Ford discovered Tracy on Broadway playing a killer in prison in the 1930 play The Last Mile. The two Irish Catholics, who shared similar guilt feelings over their heavy drinking and womanizing, proved a good creative match. Tracy's screen persona is already full formed as the brash, cynical, charismatic St. Louis, lionized by his fellow inmates for his pitching prowess and his indifference to prison rules (laxly enforced by the kindly irish warden, Robert Emmett O'Conner). Bogart in his early "Anyone for tennis?" phase, is excessively callow as Steve, a young rich kid gone wrong. Ford's comic imagination is most stimulated by Warren Hymer, who gives an unexpectedly touching performance as St. Louis' moronic sidekick, Dannemora Dan. A favourite Ford type, the lovable village idiot, Dan never loses his blinkered sense of dignity while constantly being mistreated by the slickly opportunistic St. Louis.
One of the most uproarious scenes begins with Dan marching in a religious procession as part of the "Brotherhood of Hope," carrying a drum being beaten to the tune of "Brighten the corner where you are." As the supposedly reformed ex-con exhorts a street-corner crowd, "And remember brothers, crime don't pay," Ford cuts to St. Louis cockily pulling up a fancy convertible with two flashy dames. He and Dan get into a slugging match and are returned to their idyllic, interracial penetentiary, which resembles a college, complete with coeds, amateur theatricals, a brass band, a fight song, and even an athletic mascot (a zebra). The occasional undercurrents of suffering and despair in Up the river only strengthen Ford's joyous, ironic affirmation of community in this subsersive film portraying prison life as preferable to the hypocrisy and emotional isolation of th outside world.
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