The Outer Gate (1937) CRIME THRILLER
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2013
- Stars: Ben Alexander. Ralph Morgan, Kay Linaker
Director: Raymond Cannon
When bonds are missing from Bob Terry's office, he is accused and railroaded to prison. A few years later later after the real thief is caught, Bob is released and sets his plan for revenge in motion. 
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Pizza Flix thank you for a delightful movie. When we are treated unjustly it can put scars in our heart, mind, emotions, and soul. Love returns us to wholeness .... if only we can let go of the past. Love, forgiveness, acceptance, and compassion are our saving graces. This movie is rich in them all.
Gag Me With a Spoon.
Linda Rocco ..One thing for sure...Prisons in America are to be avoided.
@@wcstevens7 Prisons in any country are to be avoided. "Don't do the crime if you Can't do the time." By the way, this movie is 82 years old, the portrayal of prisons in this film may have been correct at the time but now a days, prisoners have more rights & privileges than law abiding citizens.
Very deep, and truly profound, Linda. Your comment reminds me of a personal motto which I adapted from Shakespeare.
"To err is human, Not to forgive, is inhumane."
@@petekanter1612 Thank you Pete. Have you ever noticed that holding a grudge can propel you to take an action that you might not have taken if you had just forgiven the person right away? We have to 'know ourselves' to know which action is best suited for each desired outcome, all the while knowing we will forgive them (and our self) as soon as we accomplish the necessary task. Sometimes negative emotions can be useful tools of action. What do you think?
Ralph Morgan (1883 - 1956) had a steady if unspectacular career as an actor being seldom out of work on stage (first appearance in 1909 in The Bachelor), radio or in films and he appeared in a long list from 1914 to 1952. He came from a wealthy family and began his working life as an attorney. He was the founder and first President of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933 and had two further one-year terms in 1938 and 1939. Ralph Morgan's success as an actor inspired his brother Frank (1890 - 1949) to enter the profession and, eventually, he became more famous scoring two Academy Award nominations. Ralph's daughter was the actress Claudie Louise Morgan (1911 - 1974)
The forgiveness of Jesus and the love of a good woman ❤
Definitely one of the better oldies!
Good Little Film. Glad the criminal saw the light at the end!!! Thanks for the upload,
Even in theses crime films the good guy always win and there is a happy ending.
Original plot with a refreshing ending! A story of how vengeance & revenge never pay off. Forgiveness will remove the soul destroying hate one endures when hate encompasses one's soul.
This really is a good one... saw it while I was multitasking... and "Whoa.. lemme back it up and watch this one"! Nice work all around.
What a refreshingly different role for Kay Linaker, who -- in the only other film I've seen her in so far -- she played the role
of a femme fatale! I AM A CRIMINAL (1938) alongside of John Carroll, Robert Fiske, Craig Reynolds & child actor Martin
Spellman. The latter of who passed away, just a little bit more than 2 months ago -- at the age 94.
That's why Jesus says, "Vengeance is mine." Whatever, always work toward forgiveness.
But get even first.
Tell us exactly where in the New Testament, Jesus says “Vengeance is mine.” Give us the book, chapter and verse, okay? LOL
That's not all He says. "Wait! Let me get revenge for you. In the day I return, I shall avenge tooth for tooth ..... Amen.
@@mawi1172 "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says The Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head (Romans 12:19-20, KJV)." Please give me your Scripture reference.
@@sheristewart3940 People do not read the Word and yet have opinions and manufacture dogma. Jesus only served others and healed them when they were sick, and said we should do the same. That is the love we hear of from every NDE survivor. Leave 'justice' to God. We are all parts of His plan.
The Wizard! Lovely to see one of MGM's greatest here.
@@pammieein7660 thanks. I thought it was the father was who played the Wizard. So this is his brother.
franzitaduz, Not too far off. Ralph Morgan was wizard Frank Morgan's older bro!
Always FORGIVE many trespasses as we want to be forgiven our own. We are not better or higher than our Creater who is continually forgiving us. We're imperfect . Holding a grudge only hurts the person who holds it. If we live looking behind, not ahead, life is bitter and meaningless lacking joy. It is written in several Scriptures that a man does not plow his field looking behind him, otherwise the field would be a crooked mess! He looks foreward to plant his crops in a straight row. When we forgive soon we forget the pain. (Time has a way of healing)
When God forgives, he really forgets our sin and never brings it up again. We should strive to take the same attitude.
Remember that as we try to remove the splinter in our in our brothers eye, we should first remove the rafter in our own eye.
Excellent post, sister!
Five years jail time is a lot to forgive though.
The drunk's little jig at the club was a weird but fun diversion...
I suspect those two were a Vaudeville act that was included to pad out the run time. Personally, I found them insufferable.
Loved it x
I enjoyed this movie.
Don't recall the music source, but Ben A. played on Dragnet for several years later on.
Bob finally got Specs!
This movie is too excellent.
great movie
Thanks up loader
Thank you
Wonderful 👏
I think the jail house friend saw the light first and begged this guy to forgive and he was still running away! Till his buddy gets killed he has NO intention of returning the bonds? I wonder if he ever told the girl it wasn't even his idea to return the bonds?
Or if he was prosecuted for his part in the theft?.. giving out the house key, safe combo, etc...?
I'm overthinking this!
No, you're asking perfectly valid questions about a stupid script that is riddled with holes. Bob is absolutely going back to prison, as he was an accomplice to the theft and involved in a conspiracy to frame an innocent man for it, as his accomplices will no doubt testify. And a sentencing is NOT the time to be introducing new evidence! At that point, the trial is over, a verdict has been reached, and the jury has been dismissed. Rather, the defense attorney would appeal the conviction based on the new evidence and request that it be overturned.
Try not to overthink it, Prof. Movies like this leave a lot of loose ends untied.🦧
thanks for this
10:23 : Alexender Leftwich, 1 year before the role he was probably best remembered for. He had a major
role in Prison Train. Born on Christmas Eve of 1884; he passed away just 2 weeks and 6 days before he
would've been 64: January 13th, 1947.
If this is the Ben Alexander i think it is, he ended up as Jack Webb's partner in the original "Dragnet" series in the 1950's
I KNEW I’d seen him! You are right. He was Frank!
😢😢Great ending!!!!
Excellent
THANK YOU GOOD MOVIE GOOD STORY APRIL 26 2019
I remember Ben Alexander in Dragnet as Jack Webb’s partner many years later.
I've heard that composition at 27:07 in quite a few in these classic movies, but never noticed whether they are used by the same studio, production company or composer hired for the musical score. Anyone know? I guess I should make a list when I hear it since I have 'covid-19 lockdown' time on my hands!!
Deb Y--Good ear! Westerns I think. Chases over the plain and when the baddies were surrounding the cabin. 🏠
@Pizza Flix good does of sauce with this gem.
Love this picture
Pretty decent movie.
Ralph and brother Frank Morgan look like twins.
wow that kay Linlaker was a really great actress, Yes she really did say "You are free, white and over 21" Funny how the world has not changed much since the 1930s films. come on who gives a criminal the combination for your safe with $250,000
You could argue that Borden intended for Bob to steal the money because he felt guilty about sending an innocent man to prison (even though, as Lois points out, he didn't do that, the jury did).
what's bogus about this is that they didn't find the money, and yet convicted him...
Oh my the ying and yang, up and down and 5 will get you 10 in the big house.
Yikes. Nice, but too much wood and corn for me. The character of Todd was best developed, imo. I kept waiting for him to turn on Bob, but he never did. Nice to see Ralph Morgan in a lead. Tks!
Yeah, this was mawkish beyond belief. It would have sent a diabetic into sugar shock.
😊...this movie gets a "C" for acting, a "D" for the plot.
It's good for studying the minds of the writers and the intelligence of the people of the time. Low IQ...
It 's absolutely amazing how "simple-minded" this movie was/is...😊...you would never believe that an adult wrote this.
I like Kay, there were flashes of brilliance and believability in her performance, but not enough for me😊.
The plot...Geez...all I want to say is that there were a truckload of deficiencies, unexplained events and an unbelievable ending. This kind of sloppiness only happens in "B" movies like this which are designed for the mentally dead...aka zombies who do not and/or can not think for themselves 😄.
Wow! Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.
I certainly wasn't written for anyone who knows how the law works. It tries to deliver a positive message about forgiveness and redemption, but does it so ineptly it's impossible to take seriously.
The point of the story is that an innocent man was wrongly accused.
YOU watched it.
not bad!
josie and ladybug please get a life. this is not a comentrary department it is meant for the movie. write to dear abby if you have the problems i read between your lines
Reported for hate speech.
Christina M GOOD JOB KIDDO!
@@quickchris10comcast Hate speech? LOL. You're quite the Snowflake, eh?
Ben Alexander was a Barry Pepper look-a-like, at 26:02 !
This is an interesting film in that, at first, it overtly projects virtue. I think most Americans back then would not see this film as based in any kind of reality they knew.
Having said that ... the storyline surely does get more complex in the latter half. I've seen that switcheroo happen even with contemporary films.
*I laughed when the wealthy daughter (who also seems to exude virtue [where's her mother?]) says to Bob, "You're free, white and twenty-one." How times have changed. How differently people thought in that age. That line could easily be dubbed to, "You're free, BRIGHT and twenty-one."
*Moreover, nowadays if a 21-year old man today wants to progress as Bob does, I think he would surely need to be in with a wealthy family.
*Not quite sure the meaning of the scene wherein the drunk rich guy unsuccessfully heckles the entertainer. Maybe to show that rich folks can also make asses of themselves?
*The ending ties up a bit too neat. For example, can we assume that Bob has been allowed some sort of parole for being an accessory to the theft of the bonds?
Still ... a very watchable film; that is, if one isn't a 21st century screaming left-wing city burner. ;-)
Plus Shannon, if he's _"free, white and twenty-one"_ and he's been in prison for 5 years, then what, he had a lucrative design position in a top firm when he was *16 years old* .....❔❔❔ 😏
But thankfully, even in the 1930s, he didn't necessarily have to be "in with a wealthy family" to secure his personal financial future. He simply needed to *_patent_* his new design.... and _THEN_ sell the initial Production Rights to a "wealthy" manufacturer, contingent upon long term contractual *%* of proceeds on subsequent sales.... If in fact he Was BRIGHT!!! 🤣
21 was age of adulthood in US back then, so it's really saying 21+ meaning you're an adult now.
Shannon, the guy heckling and fooling around with the entertainer was Bob's friend Todd, imo. Sitting with Lois before he went on shift. Or not. It was weird either way!
does anyone know the name of the piece that starts at 27:04? i hear it a lot in these old movies.
Yes, I've heard it many times too. It almost seems to be a signature tune for Monogram Pictures and maybe others. These movies were done on the cheap and maybe the tune's copyright had expired and the company chose it because they didn't have to pay royalties.
44 mins How do they know he didn't do it?
The movie was entertaining but’s little too far fetched
Is 'Ralph Morgan' actually Frank Morgan ("Wizard of Oz") or perhaps a close relative? 4/2020
Same man.
Patrick, Ralph Morgan was the younger brother of Frank Morgan. They were 7 years apart. It was Frank who played
The Wizard in MGM's 1939 hand-painted-colorized classic. And it will never cease to amaze me who the 1st choice
for the role was: W. C. Fields, who said "No!" to the offer for only one reason. He refused to work with a dog.
@@petekanter1612 Well, thanks for clearing that up. There is a strong family resemblance. W.C. Fields quite likely would have been as memorable as the Wizard, but Frank Morgan now seems to have been the only choice as we're so accustomed over the years to watching him play it. Have a great day!
idealism has no place in the world.
This movie isn't idealistic, it's hokey, mawkish treacle and makes zero sense.
Free, White and 21!! YES!!! I love it!!
It's funny because it was true.
texxos57 Am 82 yo now AS I grew up that was a very common expression until AFTER WW2 when our whole culture took a gigantic shift to the beliefs of the winners of that war which was NOT America. There were MANY colloquialisms that were long while part of our American cultural belief system that were suddenly forbidden by that Tribe that created both WWs and won both on march to wipe out our TRUE Euro-American culture.
@@sophieseeker929Translation: Waaaaah, you can't be outright racist any more.
@@sophieseeker929 Gee, you must be really bitter that Hitler lost. Go to so much hell.
Free, White & twenty-one. Pre-Code is Correct!
My step grandfather was Charlie Brokaw, aka Carmody in this film. When we were toddlers he would come visit with his wife, my father's mother and hate every minute of it. Hated kids. Haha. He was a terrible, vicious drunk and when his wife, my grandmother died, he would call the house sobbing incoherently over and over "mother's dead, mother's dead." My dad was very gracious. I mean, what's he gonna say at that point. This was in the late 60's and Charlie died in Oct, 1975. I have no information how he wound up but he did make it to age 77. I think he was gay, too. He married out of convenience and for my grandmother's money. She was a well respected trained concert pianist who also had alcohol issues. What they Hell. They're heyday were the 1920's NYC and without really knowing all that much about their lives, I think they survived the Depressions through music and acting before the banking class who got away with everything and still do. Charlie did a lot of stage acting from what I could find on his IMBD page. This film is such a stinker, through, ain't it?
Dancing she said to him .........F W Nd 21.....
Through this movie isn’t 2021 LOL
Only one thing the thief’s I’m sure will rat out good old Bob when a complete investigation is performed lol just saying
Yes, Bob is absolutely going back to prison. He's an accomplice to the theft and conspired to frame an innocent man for it.
@@graemesmith6721 ...any guy named Bob or Robert is an obvious criminal.
@@robertwalker5521 Absolutely!
He doesn't want to cut flowers. He wants to trim some bush.
Vengeance is mine says the lord God almighty jesus never did make such a statement I am afraid! The ,words were from,Old testament. (Deautoronomy)
Yeah, now that Bob is someone's "bitch"!. Gotta turn this off.
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Steal Bars. i hear you
How many bars did you steal?
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Dragnet net partner,,
You lot are failing to distinguish between reality and the Hollyweed propaganda. Just appreciate the acting and interpretation; the message is always propaganda.
I think it's supposed to be a comedy, watching the drunk scene at 33:24. And the sprinkling of one-liners: ``Call me Lois!'' He: ``Yes, Ms. Gordon.''
You must live a very jaded life, Frank. "Man" is simply The Storyteller, where stories have been told since the dawn of Mankind = some good / some not so good / some Excellent = Words like "always" do not serve you well.
@@elmagodelmaryahoo ..the word "almost" or "nearly" is almost always needed.
While I tend to agree, Robert, I was replying specifically to the content of Frank's comment above, which A). used the word "always" very unrealistically inapplicable, and B). where subsequent to my simple "suggestion" he then deleted his entire post....!!!! 🤣
Oh a happy Black servant...................
I'll bet he'd like to be free, white and twenty-one!
Shannon Wittman no, I’m sure he’ll take free all by itself. Y’all are some ignorant bitches. I bet you’d like to have a brain. @pizzaflix, why do you leave these racist comments up??
At least he's treated with some dignity, and not portrayed as a cowardly simpleton, as was usually the case in movies of that era.
Black servsnt rich ehite
bla bla bla
Your FREE, WHITE and 21............Interesting, huh !
Here! Here! Josie Gonsalves. These people are clearly suffering the case of cognitive dissonance, I rest my case.
Like the movie , dislike the racist bent .
A lot of old movies are racist like that -- but, that was the reality of society.
@@quickchris10comcast Yes, America was a sad, sick, racist country back then, and not just regarding blacks. Basically, anyone who wasn't a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant male could expect to experience some form of discrimination. There's a reason Lou Reed called that big green lady standing in New York harbor "The Statue of Bigotry."
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Yuck
This movie with its terrible racist undertone....life hasn't really changed tht much - sadly. Ignorance and hate are qualities practiced regularly.
Thus the value of historic perspective.
Some of the dialogue may sound racist, but I’ll bet ‘Croesus’ was happy he had a major role in this movie.
@@patriciacee3106 Lois is the smartest one of the bunch. Too bad-just because she is a woman- her talents can not be used in a
position of authority in the company.
Every person should be proud of his or her race. The term "racist" seems FAR overused . That word pertains to hating or disliking ALL person's
of a different race or of all other races. That did not apply here
Yep. As soon as I saw the black butler I thought "Here we go!"🙄
Hmmmm, "Free, white, and 21" that's some deep shyt. I really hate Hollywood.
+Lady Bugg To me the word hate is another 4 letter word and I enjoy watching these old movies from Hollywood.
Who ever you are I think your rude.
that's an old saying. nothing particularly racist about it.
+Ed Fulmer Sr I know it.
+Lady Bugg Then go away and quit watching these old movies. Funny how "I'm black and I'm proud" is OK, but this is upsetting to you. You and your ilk have managed to cow some emotionally crippled caucasians into self loathing, but I'm not biting. I love white people. I appreciate their accomplishments and contributions to our way of life. If bitterness and hatred didn't rule your heart, mind and soul, you may actually be appreciative also, and celebrate white people as you think all others should be. You're ungrateful and hateful. What a pitiful way to stagger through life.
+mark fahey Well said
Kay Linaker was an awful actress. Just my opinion.
Mine, too.