Outside the Wall (film)

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Outside the Wall
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCrane Wilbur
Screenplay byCrane Wilbur
Story byHenry Edward Helseth
Produced byAaron Rosenberg
StarringRichard Basehart
Marilyn Maxwell
Signe Hasso
Dorothy Hart
CinematographyIrving Glassberg
Edited byEdward Curtiss
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • February 8, 1950 (1950-02-08)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Outside the Wall is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Crane Wilbur and starring Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso and Dorothy Hart.[1]

Plot

Pardoned Larry Nelson (Basehart), once imprisoned for committing a manslaughter in his reformatory, leaves Eastern State Penitentiary after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, and has problems settling into the outside world. Determined not to fall into the clutches of the law again, he takes a job as a lab assistant in a country sanitarium. There he falls for an attractive nurse, Charlotte (Maxwell). Larry recognises one of the patients in the sanitarium as Jack Bernard (Hoyt), another ex-convict who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist. Bernard offers Larry money to take some of the proceeds of the heist to his ex-wife (Hasso), but when he does, she mobilizes her gang to try to get the rest of the loot. Sweet-and-wholesome nurse Ann (Hart) helps Larry to get out of the dangerous situation.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ Outside the Wall at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films