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Don't Bother to Knock

6.6/ 10

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1952

Release Year

76 min

Runtime

Drama
Thriller

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.

Keywords

hotel
based on novel or book
detective
pilot
babysitter
singer
murder
madness
voyeur

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Reviews(3)

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talisencrw

September 22, 2016

8
8/10

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

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Cat Ellington

Cat Ellington

@CatEllington

February 25, 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

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 6, 2026

7
7/10

“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

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