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Asylum | Film Noir
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Both Audrey Totter and Robert Taylor relished making this film - Totter, because she got to play a professional woman as she did in Lady in the Lake (1946), and Taylor, because he got to act and not just be a "pretty boy".
This film did poorly at the box office for MGM, resulting in a loss of $101,000 ($1M in 2017) according to studio records.
High Wall has a similar premise to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945): a doctor falls in love with someone accused of murder and attempts to treat them in an effort to jog their memory about what really happened and who the real murderer is.
As a full colonel in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1945, with over 3 years service presumably, Kenet's base salary would have been $350 per month (equivalent to over $5,000/mo in 2020). By taking the job at the university for less than $200 per month, he was looking at a substantial reduction in income.
It is mentioned Kenet was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star. These are the second and third highest combat decorations, respectively. Only the Medal of Honor is higher.
"Steven Kenet: All this is confidential between doctor and patient isn't it? You're in a hurry to get in and report this aren't you? Well I can't stop you but just remember, you're the one who sold me on the idea of surgery, of fighting for an acquittal. Why did you bother?"
"David Wallace: I don't care about neurosis, psychosis, or arterial thrombosis."
