High Wall (1947)

A man (Robert Taylor) is sent to a mental asylum for observation after strangling his adulterous wife and attempting to commit suicide. But a psychiatrist (Audrey Totter) at the asylum attempts to break through the patient's mental block to discover what really happened. Based on a play by Alan R. Clark and Bradbury Foote and directed by Curtis Bernhardt (INTERRUPTED MELODY). This is a decent enough if rather predictable film noir. The film shows its hand early in the narrative and so we pretty much know how its going to end up, thus the movie becomes more of a mystery unfolding to reveal what we all ready know. The budding romance between Taylor and Totter suffers from a lack of chemistry between them. If you can put up with the overly contrived plot, it's a fair entertainment with a nice performance by Robert Taylor. With Herbert Marshall, Warner Anderson, Elisabeth Risdon, H.B. Warner and Dorothy Patrick.