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Don't Bother to Knock

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6.6/10 • 151

1952-07-181h 16m

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… a wicked sensation as the lonely girl in room 809!

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Directors
Roy Ward Baker
Editors
George A. Gittens

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  1. Richard Widmark

    Richard Widmark

    Jed Towers

  2. Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe

    Nell Forbes

  3. Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft

    Lyn Lesley

  4. Donna Corcoran

    Donna Corcoran

    Bunny Jones

  5. Jeanne Cagney

    Jeanne Cagney

    Rochelle

  6. Lurene Tuttle

    Lurene Tuttle

    Ruth Jones

  7. Elisha Cook Jr.

    Elisha Cook Jr.

    Eddie Forbes

  8. Jim Backus

    Jim Backus

    Peter Jones

  9. Verna Felton

    Verna Felton

    Mrs. Ballew

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talisencrw

Sep 22, 2016

8/10

Just a couple of years back, I picked up this mammoth 17-film DVD collection of Marilyn Monroe's films for a really good price, only to find that the ridiculous way the discs were placed in the digipack basically ruined them, and after watching the movies the best that I could, I reluctantly had to part with it, hoping the set would soon be released at a decent price on the more resilient blu (as you can tell, I'm old-school and low-fi, but I'm hoping to quickly remedy this problem!). As you can tell by any of my prior reviews of Richard Widmark's films, I'm a huge fan of his, and he's easily one of my favourite and most entertaining and watchable actors of the period. As well, Roy Ward Baker is one of the most underrated directors of the period--his entry in The Criterion Collection, 'A Night to Remember', is easily the best telling of the 'Titanic' tragedy. Thus simply on the basis of those three alone, I heartily recommend the film to any adventurous cinephiles of this era.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
hotelbased on novel or bookdetectivepilotbabysittersingermurdermadnessvoyeur