Don't Bother to Knock

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Call Number: DVD Film-Noir Don't
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952.
Based on the novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong.
Special features: Restoration comparison; Still gallery; Theatrical trailer; full screen (1.33:1) format.
Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft.
A beautiful babysitter begins an affair with one of the guests in the hotel where she is a live-in babysitter. But when the child she cares for interrupts their lovemaking, the babysitter becomes a dangerous madwoman.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation.
Contents: Mischief.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Marilyn Kinderlustmord submitted by mr_hunchback on April 29, 2015, 1:32pm Gives a glimpse of what wonderful performances we might have had from Monroe had she taken feature roles at lower budget studios.
(Instead, for seven years, Fox would hem her through a bunch of cornball stinkers painfully unwatchable today save for her moments on screen.)
Not an all around great film by any means, Don't Bother To Knock at least looks good c/o Lucien Ballard. The Widmark-Bancroft love angle is very weak and poor Elisha Cook's make-up is terrible. It's a gem for Monroe's creep factor and it's a shame she didn't aim higher in her professional career, say alongside Karloff or Laird Cregar.