High Wall

Year: 1947

Runtime: 99 mins

Language: English

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

CrimeThrillerDramaThrillers and murder mysteriesNoir and dark crime dramas

Steven Kenet, who suffers from recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife and confesses the crime. He is placed in an understaffed county asylum teeming with difficult inmates, where the claustrophobic environment heightens the tension. Dr. Ann Lorrison, skeptical of his story and his refusal of treatment, begins to doubt his guilt.

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County psychiatric hospital, Whitcombe's apartment building

The story unfolds primarily inside a county psychiatric hospital where Steven Kenet is evaluated after the crash and alleged murder. It also centers on the upscale apartment building owned by Willard Whitcombe, which becomes the hub of blackmail, confrontation, and discovery. These settings create a claustrophobic, urban atmosphere that drives the tension between medicine, law, and personal desperation.

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