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2 unusual facts about Up the River


Up the River

It was the only film Bogart made with director John Ford, and Tracy wouldn't work with Ford again until The Last Hurrah (1958).

She should not be confused with author/playwright/political activist Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987).



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Boca de Yuma

A navigable river of 1.5 km in length, which if you travel by boat up the river it reveals the beautiful landscapes and the caves where according to tradition the pirate Roberto Cofresí took refugee and hid his treasure.

Claise Brook

"One mile up the river from the last point is a small creek of fresh water, issuing from an extensive lagoon clothed with arborescent species of Metrosideros of great beauty. The banks are covered with the most interesting plants, amongst which I observed two species of Calytris, a species of Acacia with a scolopendrous-stem, and several Papilionaceous plants. The Angophoras on the flats are gigantic."

Cornelius Carman House

When steam-powered vessels began to be used following Robert Fulton's voyage up the river on the Clermont in the 1820s, he began building them.

Dahisar River

After the 2005 Maharashtra floods, where more than a 100 people lost their lives, the BMC has undertook a desilting and widening project to clean up the river and prevent future flooding.

Kalamazoo River

Beginning in the 1970s with the federal Clean Water Act, serious efforts were made to clean up the river.

Miami and Erie Canal

Some entrepreneurs even began to ship goods from Ohio down the Ohio River to New Orleans, yet it was difficult to bring new goods back up the river, even with the invention of steamships.

Michel Peissel

In 1988, having built a replica of a Viking long boat, Peissel and a crew of six rowed and sailed up the river Dvina and down the Dnieper 2400 km across the Soviet Union, from the Baltic to the Black Sea; an expedition meant to recreate that of the Varangians, the founding fathers of the Russian monarchy in the 8th century.

My Heart of Darkness

Together with three other war veterans, black Africans Samuel Machado Amaru, Patrick Johannes and Mario Mahonga, he travels up the river Cuando to the place of one of the last proxy war scenes of the Cold War.

Port Meadow, Oxford

This is where the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat on July 4, 1862 up the river with three young girls — Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell.

Raid on Griessie

Pellew responded by advancing up the river and exchanging fire with a Dutch gun battery on Madura Island, at which point the governor in Surabaya overruled Captain Cowell, released the seized boat party and agreed to surrender the ships at anchor in Gresik harbour.

Siege of Kut

The first relief expedition comprised some 19,000 men under General Aylmer and it headed up the river from Ali Gharbi in January 1916.

The Place of the Dead

Sergeant Bob Mann (Ralph Brown) suggests that the fitter members of the team continue on with the expedition as planned while the weaker members climb back down the mountain, drive to a village at the other end of the valley and work their way back up the river as a support group.