Outside These Walls

Name: Outside These Walls
Director: Ray McCarey
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1939-05-04
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 8.75
Cast: Michael Whalen, Dolores Costello, Virginia Weidler, Don Beddoe, Selmer Jackson

“SAFER WITH KILLERS INSIDE THESE CELLS...THAN WITH WOMEN WITHOUT HEARTS!”

1939

Drama Crime

Director: Ray McCarey

Writers: Ferdinand Reyher, Harold Buchman

Overview

Walen plays Dan Sparling, 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.