Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Tagline:
« SHE’S DYNAMITE! It Opens the Door on the Screen’s Most Exciting New Personality—MARILYN MONROE »
Actors:
Jed Towers
Nell Forbes
Lyn Lesley
Bunny Jones
Rochelle
Rating:
(9’709 votes)
(9’709 votes)
Quotes:
« Eddie Forbes: You smell like a cooch dancer!
»
« Jed Towers: Another rye, please. You married?
»
« Joe the Bartender: Sure. Who's not?
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« Jed Towers: You and your wife fight… argue all the time?
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« Joe the Bartender: Some of the time she sleeps.
»
« Jed Towers: Seventy-eight percent of the pilots in Skyway Airlines are married. Ya' see, you get married, you become a statistic.
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« Joe the Bartender: Yeah… Stay single, and you wind up talkin' to bartenders.
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« Nell Forbes: You look so different in those clothes.
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« Eddie Forbes: I'm different all the time.
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Trailer:
Don't Bother To Knock
Runtime:76 minutes
Plots:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter employed by the hotel where he lives and gradually comes to realize that she’s dangerous.
Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where his 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 wacko.
One night in a New York hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers gets the air from his chanteuse girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Joneses, guests at the hotel, need a baby-sitter, and elevator operator Eddie recommends his shapely niece Nell. Jed sees Nell through his window, gets acquainted, and becomes increasingly aware that this disturbed, spooky girl is the last person Mrs. Jones should have entrusted with her daughter.
Official websites:
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