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High Wall

So tense! So taut! It closes in on you like a high wall!

6.4(29)19471h 39m1

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.

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Released
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Language
English
  • asylum
  • film noir
  • strangulation
  • post world war ii
  • doctor patient relationship
  • framed for murder
  • brain injury
  • murder confession
  • murdered wife
  • innocent man imprisoned
  • war veteran with amnesia

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR17 Dec 1947

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High Wall was released on 17 December 1947.

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    John Chard

    1/11/2014

    7.5/10

    Murders and Medicinal Mania. High Wall is directed by Curtis Bernhardt and adapted to screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole from the play by Alan R. Clark and Bradbury Foote. It stars Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick and H.B. Warner. Music is by Bronislau Kaper and cinematography by Paul Vogel. Suffering from a brain injury sustained during the war, Steven Kenet (Taylor) is …

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