Don't Bother to Knock
by Roy Ward Baker
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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney, Marilyn Monroe, Richard WidmarkDirector: Roy Ward Baker
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Editor: George A. Gittens
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Writer: Charlotte Armstrong
Writer: Daniel Taradash
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Don't Bother to Knock
Movie Review: This shows Marilyn's true mettle!
Summary: 5 Stars
I never was a big watcher of the Marilyn Monroe films. It is sad that all she seems to be noted for are the comedy roles she did. This film is a dark classic...Chilled me to the bloody bone! I agree that this film is ahead of it's time, and if Marilyn had stuck with these types of roles, she wouldn't have ended up typecast. Had she lived past the age of 36, she would have given much more, I'm sure. This film was deep, dark and intriguing and even those who aren't into Marilyn should give this film a view.
I put this way up there with the 1950's version of "The Bad Seed" as far as the effectiveness it has at creeping out even a modern day viewer! Both films were ahead of their time.
Summary of Don't Bother to Knock
While baby-sitting in a hotel, a beautiful woman (Marilyn Monroe) begins a flirtation with one of the hotel's guests (Richard Widmark). Rebounding from a breakup with his girlfriend (Anne Bancroft), he's willingly seduced by the baby-sitter and ends up in bed with her. When the child wakes up and disturbs their lovemaking, the baby-sitter reveals homicidal tendencies and terrorizes them both. A frightening and provocative exploration of a murderer's mind.Marilyn Monroe's first bona fide starring role came in the taut, stripped-down film noir Don't Bother to Knock. She plays a recently institutionalized, none-too-stable babysitter, awkwardly tending a little girl in a Manhattan hotel. Richard Widmark, jilted by the songbird (Anne Bancroft) in the hotel lounge ("The female race is always cheesing up my life," he pouts), puts the make on the lonely blonde in room 809, to his regret. The picture benefits by not being a "Marilyn" movie, but just a good little thriller with, as it happens, a terrific performance by the future superstar. Monroe's childlike distraction eerily suits her rattled character, a misfit who can't distinguish her tragic past from the confusing present. Kudos to Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity), whose script contains a collection of tart slang that neatly captures the noir feel--all without leaving the boundaries of the hotel. --Robert Horton
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