custody, Whitcombe is told that anything he said under the truth serum can not be used against him. He vows to get a lawyer and be cleared. Kenet, meantime, is free to go. Cast Robert Taylor as Steven Kenet Audrey Totter as Dr. Ann Lorrison Herbert Marshall as Willard I. Whitcombe Dorothy Patrick as Helen Kenet H. B. Warner as Mr. Slocum Warner Anderson as Dr. George Poward Moroni Olsen as Dr. Philip Dunlap John Ridgely as Asst. District Attorney David Wallace Morris Ankrum as Dr. Stanley Griffin Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Kenet, Steven's mother Vince Barnett as Henry Cronner Jonathan Hale as Emory Garrison Charles Arnt as Sidney X. Hackle, Steven's court-appointed lawyer Lisa Golm as Dr. Golm Reception The film earned $1,553,000 in the US and Canada and $1,065,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $101,000. Critical response A contemporary review in The New York Times said: "As straight movie melodrama, employing modern psychotherapy, High Wall is a likely lot of terrors, morbid and socially cynical. Just the thing for your holiday entertainment—unless, of course, you are sane." In 1984 writer Spencer Selby called High Wall "stylish, representative of late forties noir thrillers." In 2006 film critic Dennis Schwartz called it "a tepid and chatty psychological melodrama that is embellished with black-and-white film noir visuals by the adept camerawork of Nicolas Vogel," but thought the main cast "adequate but too bland to convince us that their romance was possible. Robert Taylor's personal despair was more like angst in a soap opera than film noir. The film's biggest faults were that it was never convincing as a mystery story, that the romance story was more Hollywood fantasy than real, that the truth serum is so casually accepted as the answer to establishing the truth and that brain surgery can so easily cure Taylor of his mental disorder." References External links 1947 films 1947 crime drama films American black-and-white films American crime drama films American films based on plays Film noir Films about amnesia Films about psychiatry Films directed by Curtis Bernhardt Films produced by Robert Lord (screenwriter) Films scored by Bronisław Kaper Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films