Outside These Walls
1939 film by Ray McCarey
Outside These Walls is a 1939 American crime film directed by Ray McCarey and starring Michael Whalen, Dolores Costello and Virginia Weidler.
01Plot
Dan Sparling is a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
02Cast
- Michael Whalen as Dan Sparling
- Dolores Costello as Margaret Bronson
- Virginia Weidler as Ellen Sparling
- Don Beddoe as Dinky
- Selmer Jackson as John Wilson
- Mary Forbes as Gertrude Bishop
- Robert Emmett Keane as Sam Fulton
- Pierre Watkin as Hewitt Bronson
- Kathleen Lockhart as Miss Thronton
- Dick Curtis as Flint
Sources and credits
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- Outside These Walls lobby card.jpg by Unknown author, Fair use
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