
High and Low
1963


“COMING AT YOU ... in a blast of terrific drama!”
41 votes
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Director
Anatole LitvakWriters
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The claustrophobic setting and the photography here really do promise much, but as the story unravels it becomes all a bit disappointing. Henry Fonda is beleaguered war veteran “Joe” who has returned to discover that a lot has changed since his departure. For a start, his beloved “Jo Ann” (Barbara Bel Geddes) turns out to have been slightly economical with the truth about her relationship with the odious magician “Max” (Vincent Price). On that front, his former assistant “Charlene” (Ann Dvorak) is not entirely unknown to “Joe” either. Now this is told via flashback, and so we know that “Joe” i…
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