Don’t Bother to Knock 1952 123movies

Watch: Don’t Bother to Knock 1952 123movies, Full Movie Online – Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy. When the girl she’s baby-sitting, Bunny, enters Nell goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little whacko..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 7,207
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Reviews:

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.

Nell Forbes was by far the darkest and most volatile character Marilyn Monroe had ever portrayed in her entire career.

Written by Daniel Taradash and directed by Roy Ward Baker, Don’t Bother To Knock – a chilling and uncommonly masterful film noir thriller – gives its viewers an up-close glimpse into the crevices of a deeply disturbed human soul.

Need a babysitter … anyone?

Yet another five star oeuvre, Don’t Bother To Knock is an effort of prodigious degree in classic cinema.

Very well acted by Monroe.
Glamorous Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe gets to sink her teeth into a meaty role in this, one of her earliest starring roles. She does prove herself to be an actress of some depth, playing a mentally unstable young woman hired for a babysitting gig in a posh hotel. However, this is just as much Richard Widmarks’ movie as hers, and he does well as an airline pilot who’s an overly cynical, analytical jerk. His girlfriend (Anne Bancroft, in her first film), a lounge singer, has gotten fed up and dumped him. Feeling frustrated, he tries to hook up with Monroe only to realize how much baggage the young woman carries – yet he is able to find within himself some actual humanity, as he begins to feel sympathy for her. After all, it’s not Monroes’ intention to deliberately hurt anyone. The movie can boast substantial talent in front of and behind the camera; screenwriter Daniel Taradash, who based this on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong, went on to adapt “From Here to Eternity” for the big screen, and the director is Roy Ward Baker, an English director at the helm of such classics as “A Night to Remember”. Supporting the stars are people such as Elisha Cook, Jr., as Monroes’ worried uncle, Jim Backus and Lurene Tuttle as the parents of the little girl, Verna Felton as a grumpy busybody, Willis Bouchey as a bartender, Jeanne Cagney (sister to James C.) as a switchboard operator, and Donna Corcoran as the child in Monroes’ supposed care. Given that this is very dependent on dialogue and performance, this kind of story could work just as well on the stage, and it’s reasonably compelling if lacking in any real punch. (The one segment that has us on the edges of our seats is when the child is leaning out a window and we think that either she’ll fall, or Monroe will push her.) It truthfully doesn’t add up to a whole lot when it’s over, or really become memorable in any way, but the acting puts it over and makes it worth sticking with. By the end of the tale, it’s hard not to feel at least some semblance of sympathy for the anguished Monroe, whose character is fixated on a lover who had died during the war. And by that time, Bancroft can see some hope for Widmark, and be willing to give him another chance. While the characters may be quite flawed, it’s their very imperfections that make them interesting, and their dilemma entertaining enough to watch. Seven out of 10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 16 min (76 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Director Roy Ward Baker
Writer Daniel Taradash, Charlotte Armstrong
Actors Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
Film Length 2,075 m (Italy), 2,086 m (8 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm