High Wall

High Wall

Infobox Film
name =High Wall


image_size = 223px
caption = theatrical poster
director = Curtis Bernhardt
producer = Robert Lord
writer = Play and story:
Alan R. Clark
Bradbury Foote
Screenplay:
Sydney Boehm
Lester Cole
starring = Robert Taylor
Audrey Totter
Herbert Marshall
music = Bronislau Kaper
cinematography = Paul Vogel
editing = Conrad A. Nervig
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = 17 December 1947 "(US)"
runtime = 99 mins.
country = United States
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0039464

"High Wall" (1947) is a black-and-white 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 play by Alan R. Clark and Bradbury Foote.

Plot

A man suffering from a recurring brain injury during the war Steven Kenet (Taylor), appears to have strangled his wife after catching her living in her boss' apartment. He blacks out while his hands are around the woman's neck. He confesses and is committed to a county asylum. At the asylum, Dr. Ann Lorrison (Totter) is initially cynical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment.

Slowly, she begins to doubt his guilt, and endangers her career when she begins to investigate the crime which eventually leads to another suspect. When Kenet's memory is finally jogged he remembers a clue that could prove his innocence, he escapes from the asylum looking for his wife's old boss Whitcombe (Marshall). The doctor and patient meet outside his building and sneak in and question the man.

Cast

*Robert Taylor as "Steven Kenet"
*Audrey Totter as "Dr. Ann Lorrison"
*Herbert Marshall as "Willard I. Whitcombe"
*Dorothy Patrick as "Helen Kenet"
*H. B. Warner as "Mr. Slocum"
*Warner Anderson as "Dr. George Poward"
*Moroni Olsen as "Dr. Philip Dunlap"
*John Ridgely as "Asst. District Attorney David Wallace"
*Morris Ankrum as "Dr. Stanley Griffin"
*Elisabeth Risdon as "Mrs. Kenet (Steven's mother)"
*Vince Barnett as "Henry Cronner"
*Jonathan Hale as "Emory Garrison"
*Charles Arnt as "Sidney X. Hackle (lawyer)"
*Ray Mayer as "Ray Mayer (orderly)"

Reaction

Writer Spencer Selby calls "High Wall" "Stylish, representative of late forties noir thrillers." ref|book1

Notes

#cite book | author=Spencer Selby | title=Dark City: The Film Noir | publisher =McFarland Classic | year=1984 | id=ISBN 0-7864-0478-7

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