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High Wall is a american film of genre Drama directed by Curtis Bernhardt released in USA on 17 december 1947 with Robert Taylor
High Wall (1947)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 december 1947
Length 1h39
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
OriginUSA
Themes Films based on plays
Rating68%
High Wall is a 1947 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.
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Steven Kenet catches his unfaithful wife in the apartment of Willard I. Whitcombe, her boss, and apparently strangles her. Believing he killed her, he attempts to commit suicide by driving his car into the river, even though they have a 6-year-old son. Kenet survives but is sent to the county psychiatric hospital for evaluation to determine if he is sane enough to be charged with murder. He has no memory of what happened, likely due to a pre-existing brain injury from the war.Actors
Robert Taylor
(Steven Kenet)
Audrey Totter
(Dr. Ann Lorrison)
Herbert Marshall
(Willard I. Whitcombe)
Dorothy Patrick
(Helen Kenet)
H. B. Warner
(Mr. Slocum)
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