High Wall (1947)
So tense! So taut! It closes in on you like a high wall!
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
- Date of release
- 1947-12-17
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (29)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Curtis Bernhardt
Casting
- Robert Taylor — Steven Kenet
- Audrey Totter — Dr. Ann Lorrison
- Herbert Marshall — Willard I. Whitcombe
- Dorothy Patrick — Helen Kenet
- H.B. Warner — Mr. Slocum
- Warner Anderson — r. George Poward
- Moroni Olsen — Dr. Philip Dunlap
- John Ridgely — Assistant District Attorney David Wallace (as John Ridgeley)
- Morris Ankrum — Dr. Stanley Griffin
- Elisabeth Risdon — Mrs. Kenet
- Vince Barnett — Henry Cronner
- Jonathan Hale — Emory Garrison
Interesting facts
High Wall is a 1947 American film noir starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a novel by Alan R. Clark and a play by Bradbury Foote.
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