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Don't Bother to Knock backdrop

Don't Bother to Knock poster

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

… a wicked sensation as the lonely girl in room 809!

6.6(167)1h 16mJuly 18, 1952

Roy Ward Baker

Director

Daniel Taradash

Writer

Rate

Diary

Overview

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

Cast

Richard Widmark

Jed Towers

Marilyn Monroe

Nell Forbes

Anne Bancroft

Lyn Lesley

Donna Corcoran

Bunny Jones

Don't Bother to Knock · Cinemalant

Jeanne Cagney

Rochelle

Lurene Tuttle

Ruth Jones

Elisha Cook Jr.

Eddie Forbes

Jim Backus

Peter Jones

Verna Felton

Mrs. Ballew

Willis Bouchey

Joe the Bartender

Don Beddoe

Mr. Ballew

Harry Bartell

Bellboy (uncredited)

Gloria Blondell

Janie - Cafe Photographer (uncredited)

Dick Cogan

Bell Captain (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Woman at Awards Dinner (uncredited)

Robert Foulk

Doorman (uncredited)

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: July 18, 1952
Production: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America

Keywords

hotelbased on novel or bookdetectivepilotbabysittersingermurdermadnessvoyeur

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