Friday, January 2, 2015

"Don't Bother to Knock" (1952)


Marilyn Monroe as a mentally deranged babysitter? Yup. And it's worth a looksee, if only to prove that La Monroe could actually ACT. It's the darkside of her fragile wounded sparrow persona. A noir with an insular setting, a big city hotel, has Richard Widmark in a relaxed performance as a fellow guest who meets the star for a possible hookup...then things go very, very wrong. A witty script with some funny lines amongst a few still chilling moments of sustained suspense. 


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