Don't Bother to Knock(Movie, 1952)

Name: Don't Bother to Knock
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1952
Duration: T01:16:00
Rating: 3.4

1h 16min | Genres: Drama, Thriller

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 59 votes)

Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American psychological thriller starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe and directed by Roy Ward Baker. The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong. Monroe is featured as a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where a pilot, played by Widmark, is staying. He starts flirting with her, but over the evening her strange behavior makes him increasingly aware that she is unhinged. How he copes with the situation ends up profoundly impacting all three lives. ()

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About Don't Bother to Knock

Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

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Don't Bother to Knock(Trailer, 2:41)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Made by: 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/18/1952

Cast: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Elisha Cook Jr., Jim Backus, Don Beddoe, Jeanne Cagney, Lurene Tuttle, Willis Bouchey, Bess Flowers, Harold Miller, Verna Felton, Robert Foulk, Emmett Vogan

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Producer: Julian Blaustein

Screenwriter: Daniel Taradash

Director of Photography: Lucien Ballard

Composer: Lionel Newman, Elisabeth Lutyens

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Almas desesperadas"

"Versuchung auf 809"

"Brændende læber"

"Niebla en el alma"

Keywords: murder, based on novel or book, babysitter, voyeur, hotel, singer, detective, pilot, madness

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Don't Bother to Knock(Movie, 1952)

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