Outside These Walls

Outside These Walls

60 mins | Drama, Crime | May 4, 1939

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.

Outside These Walls

60 mins | Drama, Crime | May 4, 1939

Outside These Walls
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.
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Outside These Walls
Directors Ray McCarey
Writers Ferdinand Reyher, Harold Buchman

Cast

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 Thornton

Dick Curtis

as Flint

Matthew 'Stymie' Beard

as Penny (uncredited)

Clem Bevans

as Smedley (uncredited)

Florence Wix

as Miss Strawbridge (uncredited)

Robert Sterling

as Reporter (uncredited)

Lorna Gray

as Secretary (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

as Circulation Man (uncredited)

Kenneth MacDonald

as Hutchins (uncredited)

Erville Alderson

as Sauers (uncredited)

Dorothy Comingore

as Secretary (uncredited)

Richard Fiske

as Prisoner (uncredited)

Rita Owin

as Teacher (uncredited)

Winifred Drew

as Bit Role (uncredited)