The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1947
High Wall
Directed by
Curtis Bernhardt
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
The story
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
Cast
Robert TaylorSteven Kenet
Audrey TotterDr. Ann Lorrison
Herbert MarshallWillard I. Whitcombe
Dorothy PatrickHelen Kenet
H.B. WarnerMr. Slocum
Warner Andersonr. George Poward
Moroni OlsenDr. Philip Dunlap
John RidgelyAssistant District Attorney David Wallace (as John Ridgeley)
Morris AnkrumDr. Stanley Griffin
Elisabeth RisdonMrs. Kenet
Vince BarnettHenry Cronner
Jonathan HaleEmory Garrison
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Charles ArntSidney X. Hackle
Ray MayerTom Delaney
Robert HyattRichard Kenet (as Bobby Hyatt)
Russell ArmsPatient Awaiting Discharge Hearing (uncredited)
John BeckPatient (uncredited)
Eula GuyMiss Vera Mercer (uncredited)
John HamiltonPolice Surgeon (uncredited)
Selmer JacksonPolice Insp. Harding (uncredited)
Frank JenksPinky (uncredited)
Milton KibbeeCounterman (uncredited)
Dorothy NeumannMrs. Miller (uncredited)
Ray TealPolice Lieutenant (uncredited)
Dick WesselJim Hale (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Jean Andren
Irving Bacon
Jack Baxley
Guy Beach
George Bunny
Georgia Caine
Jack Chefe
James Conaty
Frank Darien
Boyd Davis
Jack Davis
Abe Dinovitch
Jim Drum
Phil Dunham
Eddie Dunn
Tay Dunn
Jay Eaton
Helen Eby-Rock
William Fawcett
Joel Friedkin
Lisa Golm
Bernard Gorcey
Henry Hall
Bert Hanlon
Al Hill
Perry Ivins
Paul Kruger
Wilbur Mack
Kate MacKenna
Frank Marlowe
Howard M. Mitchell
Rhea Mitchell
Marta Mitrovich
Skeets Noyes
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Lee Phelps
Stanley Price
Dan Quigg
Tom Quinn
Grandon Rhodes
Mary Servoss
Sammy Shack
Henry Sylvester
Celia Travers
Dorothy Vaughan
Robert B. Williams
Matt Willis
Harry Wilson
Hank Worden
Jack Worth
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