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]
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| Directed by | Crane Wilbur |
| Screenplay by | Crane Wilbur |
| Story by | Henry Edward Helseth |
| Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Starring | Richard Basehart Marilyn Maxwell Signe Hasso Dorothy Hart |
| Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
| Edited by | Edward Curtiss |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot edit
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 edit
- Richard Basehart as Larry Nelson
- Marilyn Maxwell as Charlotte Maynard
- Signe Hasso as Celia Bentner
- Dorothy Hart as Ann Taylor
- Joseph Pevney as Gus Wormser
- Lloyd Gough as Red Chaney
- Harry Morgan as Garth (credited as Henry Morgan)
- John Hoyt as Jack Bernard
- Mickey Knox as Latzo
- Joseph Sweeney as Prison Hospital Inmate
- Tudor Owen as Watchman
