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Don't Bother to Knock

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

1952 · 1h 16m

Directed by Roy Ward Baker

6.6

TMDB audience score
175 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

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Cast

  • Richard Widmark
    Jed Towers

  • Marilyn Monroe
    Nell Forbes

  • Anne Bancroft
    Lyn Lesley

  • Donna Corcoran
    Bunny Jones

  • 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)

  • John Call
    Bellboy (uncredited)

  • Dick Cogan
    Bell Captain (uncredited)

  • Charles J. Conrad
    Speaker (uncredited)

  • Tom Daly
    Man in Elevator (uncredited)

  • Elizabeth Flournoy
    Undetermined Role (uncredited)