Outside These Walls

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.

Directed by Ray McCarey

Top 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)

Clem Bevans

Smedley (uncredited)

Dorothy Comingore

Secretary (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Circulation Man (uncredited)

W

Winifred Drew

Bit Role (uncredited)

Richard Fiske

Prisoner (uncredited)

Lorna Gray

Secretary (uncredited)

Kenneth MacDonald

Hutchins (uncredited)

R

Rita Owin

Teacher (uncredited)

Details