The Outer Gate
Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
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- Cast：
- Ralph Morgan , Kay Linaker , Ben Alexander , Eddie Acuff , Charles Brokaw
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Blistering performances.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
THE OUTER GATE is a Monogram cheapie with quick-fire plotting but little in the way of depth or realism. The main character is an innocent man accused of petty theft, and imprisoned for the crime. Years later his innocence is finally proved and he gets released, only to plot revenge against his former employer with the help of his new-found criminal friends.What follows is a story heavy on the morality but light on incident. It's fast-moving enough for a programmer but you wish the characters had a little more meat on the bones to give you a reason to care about what's taking place. The actors do the best they can with the roles given but the end result is distinctly ho-hum.
Frank Morgan plays a captain of industry with a one strike policy. There is no room for failure. When a young man at his factory seems to have misappropriated funds he's sent to prison despite being involved with Morgan's daughter. When several years later his name is cleared the young man sees an opportunity to take revenge on Morgan when bonds go missing.Okay minor drama is a forgettable time killer. Its not bad but its far from special. It's the sort of thing that you'll watch to see how it plays out before moving on to something else. If you're like me you'll probably feel I saw it, I liked it I never have to see it again.5 out of 10
Insipid story about a young construction engineer (Alexander) falsely accused of embezzlement by his boss. The court sentences him to 15 years, but through a deus ex machina he only serves five. All this time Borden, the employer, has suffered a guilty conscience and wants to make amends, but Bob sees this only as an opportunity to satisfy his thirst for revenge. With the help of his cell-mate Acuff (released at the same time on parole) and a crooked nightclub owner, Bob's scheme works like clockwork. But will he go through with allowing the old man wrongly to get sent up for the same crime the old man accused him of?I was left wondering, if Bob and Lois grew up friends together and Borden had known Bob forever, why Borden was so quick in accusing Bob of the crime in the first place. Though this is a forgettable picture, it does leave one with questions of how you would act if you were sent to prison for a crime you didn't commit. The message of this story is clear: just forgive everybody and move on.
A typically thin Monogram production. Good guy Ben Alexander becomes a bad guy when boss Ralph Morgan puts him in prison for years for an embezzlement crime he didn't commit. Released upon the suicide confession of the guilty party, Alexander turns to a life of vengeance. His former boss feels guilty about having had a fine employee put away for so long and lets him live in his spacious house and spend quality time with his (not so) lovely daughter Kay Linaker. The bad guy helps his criminal friends steal a quarter of a million dollars from the house safe and then almost has Morgan put away for the same crime with which he had been wrongly pinned. An eleventh hour prodigal son conclusion leaves the viewer a little confused about the proceedings (but probably ready to start another, more satisfying movie). Overlong at 64 minutes.