

High Wall(1947)
"So tense! So taut! It closes in on you like a high wall!"
Overview
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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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
r. George Poward

Moroni Olsen
Dr. Philip Dunlap

John Ridgely
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)

Russell Arms
Patient Awaiting Discharge Hearing (uncredited)
John Beck
Patient (uncredited)

Eula Guy
Miss Vera Mercer (uncredited)

John Hamilton
Police Surgeon (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson
Police Insp. Harding (uncredited)

Frank Jenks
Pinky (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee
Counterman (uncredited)

Dorothy Neumann
Mrs. Miller (uncredited)

Ray Teal
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

Dick Wessel
Jim Hale (uncredited)
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