Outside These Walls (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 WallsDrama, Crime
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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