Imo a must see for fans of the genre. Great movie

Pretty good - 7.5
"She let me go."
~White Oleander

I missed it last night, fell asleep on the one before it. Wish it could have been on earlier.

The comparison to
Nightmare Alley
doesn't really work for me, different themes really. As noted, this is a pretty typical "condemned murderer tries to prove his innocence" story, well done as it is. l liked it a lot, Robert Taylor gives a terrific performance, as do the supporting cast. As a lover of classical music, I felt bad for the guy in the asylum who likes Chopin and Beethoven, hahaha.
However, the ending was
fine, we get to see how Whitcombe offed Steve's wife and then Steve and Dr. Lorrison turn to each and start kissing. Just felt too pat, too easy.

It was on last night. The first thing I noticed was the unusual camera movements. For the scene where the front porch of the little boy's grandmother is shown with 2 newspapers and untouched bottles of milk, the camera looks at it like human eyes, taking everything in. It also had a lot of scenes in the mental hospital, which was not shown as a snake pit (not too much). I missed the beginning since I was asleep so it is too bad this almost forgotten (from what I am reading) noir was shown in the middle of the night, it was pretty good.

what was so strange about it? could you elaborate? and to the poster who compared it to Nightmare Alley, what is the base to your comparison? Alley is the far better picture with a much more morbid and ironic approach. High Wall was your usual "killer husband must clear his name" routine. the only strange part to me was the brain surgeries that they were conducting on inmates. but that might have been accurate at the time.
"Holy Bananas, It's a girl's Leg!"

Strange? Perhaps, but only to those who are not familiar with "Nightmare Alley". As much as I like "High Wall", "Alley" is far stranger, still.
Reference is inscrutable because there is nothing to scrute.

Wished I'd taped ithad to cook dinner!

Just saw it - it was excellent. Great story and direction, wonderful
performances by Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall.