Those High Grey Walls
Cast & Crew
Charles Vidor
Walter Connolly
Onslow Stevens
Paul Fix
Bernard Nedell
Iris Meredith
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Synopsis
Dr. MacAuley, an elderly, compassionate country doctor, is sent to prison for removing a bullet from a boy he had brought into the world and then allowing him, a fugitive from justice, to escape. Inside the high grey walls of the prison, the old doctor hopes to work in the prison hospital, but his hopes are dashed by Norton, the coldly efficient prison doctor, who refuses to allow MacAuley on his staff. As a result, MacAuley is assigned to work in the jute mill, but after he saves the life of Lindy, a prisoner who suffers a heart attack, the doctor is transferred to the hospital, where he gradually wins Norton's respect and confidence. MacAuley's compassion endears him to the inmates, but when Lindy offers the doctor $10,000 to administer an overdose of sedatives and thus end his misery, the doctor refuses. However, Lindy's bribe is accepted by Nightingale, one of the hospital orderlies, and consequently, when Lindy is found dead, MacAuley is accused of the crime. The inmates rally in support of the old doctor, who is finally exonerated by Redlands, a prisoner who overheard Lindy offer the bribe to Nightingale. While at the hospital, Redlands, who thinks he can find the stash of money Lindy has hidden on the outside, attempts to force Norton and MacAuley to help him escape, but he faints while watching the doctors perform an operation and is recaptured. All ends happily as MacAuley is granted a pardon by the warden, and his daughter Mary drives him home to begin life anew.
Director
Charles Vidor
Cast
Walter Connolly
Onslow Stevens
Paul Fix
Bernard Nedell
Iris Meredith
Oscar O'shea
Nicholas Soussanin
Don Beddoe
Charles Williams
William Bakewell
Eddie Laughton
Lorna Gray
Walter Baldwin
Mike Lally
Steve Clark
Herbert Vigran
Nicholas Bela
Eduardo Thomajan
Eva Hyde
Philip Van Zandt
Lee Ford
June Pickrell
Harry Bailey
Dick Rush
Lou Fulton
Griff Barnette
Edward Colebrook
Delmar Watson
Claire Mcdowell
Helen Brown
Jack Chapin
Burr Caruth
Louise Copeland
Ralph Peters
Frank Austin
Jack Rice
Cy Schindell
Frank Bruno
Joe Bautista
Gene Stone
Eddie Foster
Jack Gardner
Ray Turner
Ernie Adams
Lester Dorr
Walter Sande
Charles Conrad
Ed Randolph
Harry Depp
Dick Curtis
John Tyrrell
Stanley Brown
Robert Sterling
James Coughlin
Paul Phillips
William Garner
Nick Copeland
Fred Warren
Frank Marlowe
Ed Fetherston
George Taylor
Eugene King
John Lester Johnson
Milton Kibbee
Robert Livingston
Dutch Hendrian
Bill Lally
Stanley Blystone
Jack Daley
Al Ferguson
George Guhl
Harry Strang
Eddie Cobb
Duke York
Chuck Hamilton
Bob Brennan
George Chesebro
Roger Gray
Charles Mcavoy
Jim Millican
Frank O'connor
Eugene Anderson
Robert Farfan
Crew
Eugene Anderson
Lionel Banks
Ed Bernds
Robert Farfan
B. B. Kahane
Gladys Lehman
Lewis Meltzer
Gene Milford
M. W. Stoloff
John Stumar
William A. Ullman Jr.
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Notes
Working titles for this film were Prison Surgeon and Of Men's Lives. Sources conflict as to the credit for assistant director; while the Screen Achievements Bulletin lists Robert Farfan, Hollywood Reporter production charts list Eugene Anderson.
