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High Wall (1947)

99 min · Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, film noir

Popularity3.5/5
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Directors

Curtis Bernhardt

Cast

Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick, H. B. Warner, Warner Anderson, Moroni Olsen, Morris Ankrum, Charles Arnt, Ray Mayer, Jonathan Hale, John Ridgely, Vince Barnett, Robert Hyatt, Elisabeth Risdon

The story

Steven Kenet, a former WWII bomber pilot and recent mercenary flyer, crashes his car into a river, hoping to kill himself and cover up the strangulation murder of his wife Helen, whose body is in the passenger seat. He survives, but, due to a wartime brain injury that was aggravated by a crash in Burma, he says he has no memory of what happened, and is sent to the county psychiatric hospital to determine if he is sane enough to be charged with murder. Dr.

Catalogue themes and tags

Erinnerung, Innocence, Memory, Memory Loss, Piloten, Schuld und Sühne, Suspicion of Murder, US-Army, Unfälle, Verletzung, arzneimittel, Black-and-white, Film noir

Genres

Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, film noir

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