Don't Bother to Knock
Don't Bother to Knock

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Don't Bother to Knock:

Richard Widmark
Marilyn Monroe
Anne Bancroft
Donna Corcoran
Jeanne Cagney
Lurene Tuttle

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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.

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Creative Loafing - 8/10 by Matt BrunsonA brisk 76-minute running time is all that's required for this nifty thriller to take the stage, impress the audience, and exit with style.
Entertainment Weekly - 8/10 by Maureen Lee LenkerDon't Bother to Knock was the first film to truly grant her a juicy dramatic leading role, one that allowed Monroe to tap into her own childhood traumas and abuse.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Michael WilmingtonThe film offered [Monroe] the chance to deliciously unravel as a mentally disturbed babysitter, and she also gained real-world survival skills that she’d put to use nearly a decade later.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumDaniel Taradash’s script is contrived in spots, and the main virtue of Roy Ward Baker’s direction is its low-key plainness, yet Monroe—appearing here just before she became typecast as a gold-plated sex object—is frighteningly real as the confused babysitter, and the deglamorized setting is no less persuasive.
The New Yorker - 6/10 by Pauline KaelMarilyn Monroe, co-starred with Richard Widmark, gives an excellent account of herself in a strictly dramatic role which commands certain attention, but the story of a psycho baby-sitter lacks interest.
Combustible Celluloid - 6/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonA snappy little 76-minute, black-and-white item, this film noir dared to look at the dark side of Monroe's giggly sex appeal.
The New York Times - 4/10 by Bosley CrowtherIt requires a good deal to play a person who is strangely jangled in the head. And, unfortunately, all the equipment that Miss Monroe has to handle the job are a childishly blank expression and a provokingly feeble, hollow voice. With these she makes a game endeavor to pull something out of the role, but it looks as though she and her director, Roy Baker, were not quite certain what.
User Review - 10/10 by Ben HI loved 2 see Mary in a role that contrasted the common character she portrays in a lot of her movies. I was totally interested in the entire movie due to that performance that she gave. However, the trailer led me to believe it was more of a murder mystery than anything, hence why I rushed at the opportunity to watch the film once I found out about it. But trailers then and now have always been doing such, that's why they accomplish their job, get us to go see the film, so as an aspiring businessman in the film industry I really can't be upset with, and the film wasn't that bad either so it'd be false to say I was misled to see a movie that I didn't even like.
User Review - 10/10 by Zachary YDon't Bother to Knock is an incredible film. It is about an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel after being dumped by his girlfriend. Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe give excellent performances. The screenplay is well written. Roy Ward Barker did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the drama and mystery. Don't Bother to Knock is is a must see.
User Review - 10/10 by Beau SReview contains spoilers This is a movie that Marilyn Monroe fans should really watch if not just for here performance..She was so vulnerable and lost in the movie, yes she was psychologically traumatized by the loss of her boyfriend in the war and Richard Widmark an incredible actor, became her obsession in a way. She was so lonely, and couldn't really except the loss of her boyfriend that she kinda believed that Richard Widmark was her boyfriend. She was sad and dangerous, to herself and the kids she was watching and you understood and felt for her at the same time. She was lost and what i felt was so great about this film was that through all of the suspense and tense moments, Richard Widmark really cared for her and knew she needed help and when they came to take her away to the mental hospital again, Richard Widmark stepped in and told her he would go with her. Such a great understated and hopeful ending, that he wouldn't just abandon her. I'd definitely recommend this movie.

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