Don't Bother to Knock

1952

Action / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 76% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 9373 9.4K

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Plot summary

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

Director

Roy Ward Baker Photo
Roy Ward Baker

Top cast

Don Beddoe Photo
Don Beddoe as Mr. Ballew
Robert Foulk Photo
Robert Foulk as Doorman
Vic Perrin Photo
Vic Perrin as Elevator Operator
Marilyn Monroe Photo
Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes
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627.56 MB
956*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 2
1.2 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by poetcomic1 7 / 10

Marilyn's BEST Acting Ever

Marilyn without the Strasbergs, without the Russian drama coach, without the Method, without the hours locked in her trailer shaking with stage fright. And it is her best ever acting job. This is the ONLY film that really taps into the 'off-kilter' and wounded quality of MM and uses it as an indispensable element of the movie. Elisha Cook's little turn as an elevator operator and his repartee with M.M. is a memorable minor moment and one of many such delights scattered throughout. I've heard that Richard Widmark was very nice to Marilyn and helpful on the set. Of course with 40 or 50 takes for even short scenes, a Billy Wilder can put up on the screen a dazzling Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot but this is the real Marilyn not just her sheer 'luminescent beauty'. Even by the time she made Niagara, something was lost already, though she was very good in that.
Reviewed by zetes 8 / 10

Marilyn Monroe really should have tried more dramatic roles, because she's great here

Excellent drama starring Marilyn Monroe in possibly her best role. She did this movie specifically to prove her worth as an actress, and she definitely succeeds at that point. Richard Widmark co-stars. After breaking up with his girlfriend (Anne Bancroft, in her debut), Widmark spots Monroe through her window across from his hotel room. He invites himself over there. She's babysitting, but she immediately lies about who she is and what she's doing. It turns out she's kind of a nutcase and has just recently returned from the mental hospital. She begins to mistake Widmark for a dead former boyfriend, and it seems as if the girl she's babysitting may be in danger. This is a tight little film, running at just under 80 minutes. Elisha Cook Jr. co-stars as Monroe's uncle. Widmark is every bit as impressive as Monroe. It's too bad Monroe didn't get to try her hand at more dramatic roles.
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