April 24 movie: High Wall. I've got to say, there's nothing like a week of other people's drama wrapped up by an unexpected and mostly involuntary seven-hour overnight drive to make me appreciate the saying, "there's no place like home."
The silver lining is that no one was expecting me until tomorrow, so I had today to relax and recover from driving all night. Turned on TCM just as this movie was starting. As it happens, it's a tight, well-made noir starring Robert Taylor as a war veteran who apparently killed his wife during a psychotic episode, and Audrey Totter as a psychiatrist at the state mental hospital. Both stars are great, a pleasant surprise from Taylor who doesn't generally turn in such a subtle, believable performance. Also good work by Herbert Marshall as the dead wife's employer and H.B. Warner as a sad, music-loving inmate of the mental hospital.
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