{"id":37812,"date":"2024-11-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37812"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:51:51","slug":"high-wall-1947-starring-robert-taylor-audrey-trotter-and-herbert-marshall-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37812","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;High Wall&#8221; (1947) starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Trotter and Herbert Marshall \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z112824zview_highwall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"761\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>High Wall <\/i>(1947)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Curtis Bernhardt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Sydney Boehm, Lester Cole, <\/strong>story by<strong> Alan R. Clark, Bradbury Foote <\/strong>based on HIGH WALL by <strong>Alan<\/strong> <strong>R. Clark<\/strong> and the play adapted by <strong>Bradbury Foote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, H.B. Warner, Warner Anderson, Moroni Olsen, John Ridgely, Morris Ankrum, Elisabeth Risdon <\/strong>and <strong>Vince Barnett<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>So tense! So taut! It closes in on you like a high wall!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steven Kenet (Taylor) needs an operation for a brain injury he suffered in the war.\u00a0 Kenet is currently being held in the county psychiatric hospital.\u00a0 Police believe Kenet murdered his wife.\u00a0 Kenet needs psychiatric testing to see if he&#8217;s sane enough to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kenet initially doesn&#8217;t know if he killed his wife or not. As he regains bits of his memory, Kenet begins to believe he&#8217;s innocent.\u00a0 But how can he prove his innocence if he&#8217;s locked up in the looney bin?\u00a0 If he could only get Dr. Ann Lorrison (Trotter) to believe he&#8217;s not a killer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The High Wall<\/em> takes some daring angles for a film made in the 40s.\u00a0 The hero starting to strangle his wife.\u00a0 A war hero&#8217;s wife cheating on him and caring nothing for her child. The killer admitting it to Kenet to incite him. Kudos for being daring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contrast this with the easy way Kenet gets in and out of custody plus the killer&#8217;s &#8220;confession&#8221; and we end up with a mixed bag.\u00a0 Still I liked <em>High Wall<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>High Wall <\/i>(1947)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z112824zview_highwall2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Wall (1947) Director: \u00a0Curtis Bernhardt Screenplay: Sydney Boehm, Lester Cole, story by Alan R. 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