… a wicked sensation as the lonely girl in room 809!
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
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Grave, earnest, intimate and classical in form.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20267/10
“Lyn” (Anne Bancroft) is an hotel crooner who is in love with, but recently dumped, airline pilot “Jed” (Richard Widmark) who has consequently repaired to his hotel room with a bottle whilst she (well, Eve Marley actually) serenades him via the PA system. Meantime, across the courtyard a couple are attending a swanky dinner and so have employed “Nell” (Marilyn Monroe) as their baby-sitter. It’s fairly safe to say that she is completely disinterested in her charge, and so after a cursory story puts the girl to bed and starts to explore their suite. Donning an expensive robe and some jewellery, she is spotted through the window by the lovelorn “Jed” who calls up her room. She initially shuns his advances, but then a series of events occur that encourage her to invite him round. “Nell” is fairly selective and creative about the information she imparts to her new friend, but when the girl wakes up and then her uncle “Eddie” (Elisha Cook Jr) who drives the elevators arrives in the room, “Jed” begins to wonder what he has let himself in for. What is clear to us watching is that “Nell” is quite a disturbed girl who is obviously suffering or recovering from a trauma. As her boss’s (Lorene
Read the whole review on TMDB - talisencrwon TMDB · Sep 20168/10
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.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Cat Ellingtonon TMDB · Feb 2017
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.
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Cast
- Richard WidmarkJed Towers
- Marilyn MonroeNell Forbes
- Anne BancroftLyn Lesley
- Donna CorcoranBunny Jones
- Jeanne CagneyRochelle
- Lurene TuttleRuth Jones
- Elisha Cook Jr.Eddie Forbes
- Jim BackusPeter Jones
- Verna FeltonMrs. Ballew
- Willis BoucheyJoe the Bartender
Crew
- Roy Ward BakerDirector
- Daniel TaradashScreenplay
- Charlotte ArmstrongNovel
- Lucien BallardDirector of Photography
- Lionel NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- George A. GittensEditor
- Julian BlausteinProducer
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