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Steven Kenet (Robert Taylor) says he killed his wife, but even he doesn’t really know if he did or not.
A wartime head trauma has left him subject to disorientations and blackouts. So Kenet enters a psych ward where, the DA asserts, he’ll hide behind the wall of an insanity plea. But truth cannot hide. And Kenet—assisted by a ward doctor (Audrey Totter) —is driven to find that truth.
With bravura use of genre trademarks like expressionist shadows and subjective camera, director Curtis Bernhardt (Possessed) builds a High Wall into a film noir psychological thriller that, little noted in its day, is ready for an honored place amid the shadowy shrines of noir.
Go behind the wall into the inner sanctum of noir and consciousness.
Original Release
12/17/1947
US Release
12/17/1947
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Cast
Name | Character |
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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 | Dr. George Poward / r. George Poward |
Moroni Olsen | Dr. Philip Dunlap |
John Ridgely | David Wallace / Assistant District Attorney David Wallace (as John Ridgeley) |
Morris Ankrum | Dr. Stanley Griffin |
Elisabeth Risdon | Mrs. Kenet |
Directors
Writers
Sydney Boehm, Lester Cole, Alan R. Clark, Bradbury Foote
Cast
Name | Character |
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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 | Dr. George Poward / r. George Poward |
Moroni Olsen | Dr. Philip Dunlap |
John Ridgely | David Wallace / 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 |
Charles Arnt | Sidney X. Hackle |
Ray Mayer | Tom Delaney |
Robert Hyatt | Richard Kenet (as Bobby Hyatt) / Richard Kenet |
Erville Alderson | Patient Awaiting Discharge Hearing |
Jean Andren | Nurse |
Russell Arms | Patient Awaiting Discharge Hearing |
Irving Bacon | Gas Station Owner |
Jack Baxley | Bartender |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Robert Lord | Producer |