In High Wall (1947), an extremely noir-y noir, Stephen Kenet, played by an unusually glamorless Robert Taylor, suffers from a fully credible traumatic amnesia. Did he, or did he not kill his wife. He can't remember. So far so good. But he's cured of his affliction in a most unlikely, most unscientific , manner. He's injected with "truth serum" -- sodium pentathol -- and what was once lost is found.
The gimmick spoils an otherwise grainy, hard-edged film.
Here's Kenet (Taylor), and Ann Lorrison, played by Audrey Totter. They're good as patient and doctor, but unpersuasive when they emerge as lovers in the last scene.
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