

Outside These Walls
DirectorRay McCarey
“SAFER WITH KILLERS INSIDE THESE CELLS...THAN WITH WOMEN WITHOUT HEARTS!”
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.
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Cast

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)
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