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February 8, 1950. ( 1950-02-08) Running time. 80 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. 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.
- Universal Pictures
- Aaron Rosenberg
Outside the Wall: Directed by Crane Wilbur. With Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart. A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Crane Wilbur
- 1950-02-08
Outside The Wall (1950) is an ex-con sap in the city thriller from the height of the classic film noir era, starring Richard Basehart as an innocent abroad, released from prison never having seen a woman, and at large and trying to remain crime-free in Philly.
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Synopsis. At the Cherry Hill Prison in Philadelphia, Larry Nelson is summoned by the warden, who informs him that he has been granted a pardon. Larry, who was sentenced to prison at age fourteen for beating a brutal reformatory guard to death, has been incarcerated for fifteen years.
OUTSIDE THE WALL is a solid B crime movie that delivers everything the genre promises. It might make a nice comparison with TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY, released the next year. In both films, an ex-con, newly released, runs into trouble despite their pretty naive aspirations and innocuous personalities.
Summaries. A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime. Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium.
Even though it was released in 1950, Outside the Wall feels like it has a foot in the crime pictures of the 1930s. The film opens on the Cherry Hill prison in Philadelphia where we meet Larry Nelson (Richard Basehart), a man who is about to be paroled after doing a 15-year sentence for murder. We find out more about his crime later in the movie ...
