Outside These Walls
SAFER WITH KILLERS INSIDE THESE CELLS...THAN WITH WOMEN WITHOUT HEARTS!
1939 | 60m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Ray McCarey |
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| Writer: | Ferdinand Reyher, Harold Buchman |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 04, 1939 |
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| Director: | Ray McCarey |
| Writer: | Ferdinand Reyher, Harold Buchman |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | prison, rehabilitation, newspaper man |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 18, 2026 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Michael Whalen | Dan Sparling |
| Dolores Costello | Margaret Bronson |
| Virginia Weidler | Ellen Sparling |
| Don Beddoe | Dinky |
| Selmer Jackson | John Wilson |
| Mary Forbes | Gertrude Bishop |
| Robert Emmett Keane | Sam Fulton |
| Pierre Watkin | Hewitt Bronson |
| Kathleen Lockhart | Miss Thornton |
| Dick Curtis | Flint |
| Erville Alderson | Sauers (uncredited) |
| Matthew Beard | Penny (uncredited) |
| Clem Bevans | Smedley (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Comingore | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Joe Devlin | Circulation Man (uncredited) |
| Winifred Drew | Bit Role (uncredited) |
| Richard Fiske | Prisoner (uncredited) |
| Lorna Gray | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Kenneth MacDonald | Hutchins (uncredited) |
| Rita Owin | Teacher (uncredited) |
| Robert Sterling | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Florence Wix | Miss Strawbridge (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ferdinand Reyher | Story |
| Harold Buchman | Screenplay |
| Ray McCarey | Director |
| James Sweeney | Editor |
| Jack A. Goodrich | Sound |
| Lucien Ballard | Director of Photography |
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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