![]() At the time critics loved her performance, and I got to say, I did too. This was her 18th movie and she made this movie to show she could act, and act she did! This is an amazing performance of a suicidal, mentally disturbed young women, it is not over the top, very real feeling and subtle. Up to this point she just played her lovable self and people ate it up. The problem was, she was not know for her acting. Marilyn Monroe was a popular star at this point. This gives you a bit of claustrophobia as the suspense grows through out. The whole movie also takes place in a high-end hotel, basically the lounge, 2 rooms and the elevator contain all the scenes. This is pretty cool and done very seamlessly. This film is in real-time, so the events happen in the same amount of time as the film length. Seems like a pretty average day in the Hotel, but things get stranger and stranger as time goes on. We find out he is her uncle and got her a job babysitting. We also meet the elevator man played by the great character actor,Elisha Cook Jr., who is taking Monroe up to the 8th floor. They’re relationship is on the rocks and Widmark is trying to save it. ![]() We soon meet her boyfriend, the pilot that comes to town from Chicago played by Widmark. Our story starts with Bancroft sitting at a bar, telling the bartender her troubles with her boyfriend and then the spotlight hits her and she starts singing. We also get Anne Bancroft in her first film, as the lounge signer Widmark is in love with. ![]() Noir great Richard Widmark plays a pilot in town on an over night stay at the hotel. This movie has superstar Marilyn Monroe as our most interesting character. The movie is based on a book by Charlotte Armstrong. Don’t Bother to Knock is a film noir from Roy Ward Backer, his first for Hollywood and one of many great noir movies he did. ![]()
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