After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.
John Ridgely
- David Wallace
- (as John Ridgeley)
Robert Hyatt
- Richard Kenet
- (as Bobby Hyatt)
Jean Andren
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Russell Arms
- Patient Awaiting Discharge Hearing
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaBoth Audrey Totter and Robert Taylor relished making this film - Totter, because she got to play a professional woman as she did in Lady in the Lake (1946), and Taylor, because he got to act and not just be a "pretty boy".
- GoofsAt around ten minutes, a group of doctors are looking at Kenet's skull x-rays. The x-rays are hung behind the illuminated frosted glass panels - so that we can see the x-rays, but the doctors could not. And the x-ray as we see it is oriented correctly to show a left side hematoma, but to the doctors, the x-ray is reversed meaning the hematoma would be on the right.
- Quotes
Steven Kenet: All this is confidential between doctor and patient isn't it? You're in a hurry to get in and report this aren't you? Well I can't stop you but just remember, you're the one who sold me on the idea of surgery, of fighting for an acquittal. Why did you bother?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Noir Alley: High Wall (2017)
- SoundtracksNocturne Op. 9, No. 2
(uncredited)
Composed by Frédéric Chopin
[The piano piece Slocum plays on the phonograph for Steve when they first meet at dinner]
Featured review
Melodramatic Film-Noir
The former WWII pilot Steven Kenet (Robert Taylor) is captured by the police after driving his car off the road into a river with his deceased wife. He confesses that he killed his wife and is sent to a psychiatric hospital for medical evaluation. Kenet has a brain injury from the war that provokes amnesia and the justice department needs to know whether he may be charged of murder or not. Dr. Ann Lorrison (Audrey Totter) is assigned to treat him and offers a surgery to cure him but refused by Kenet. When Kenet is visited by the super of the apartment building where the boss of his wife lives, he insinuates that Willard I. Whitcombe (Herbert Marshall) killed his wife in his apartment. Now Kenet wants to recover his memory and accepts to be submitted to a treatment by Dr. Lorrison.
"High Wall" is a film-noir combined with melodrama and romance. The lead story is not bad, but the romance of Kenet and Lorrison has no chemistry and is hard to believe. The black-and-white cinematography is wonderful and the happy-ending is acceptable. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Muro de Trevas" ("Wall of Darkness")
"High Wall" is a film-noir combined with melodrama and romance. The lead story is not bad, but the romance of Kenet and Lorrison has no chemistry and is hard to believe. The black-and-white cinematography is wonderful and the happy-ending is acceptable. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Muro de Trevas" ("Wall of Darkness")
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- Aug 3, 2018
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- Also known as
- Muro de tinieblas
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- Budget
- $1,844,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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