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Don't Bother to Knock poster

Don't Bother to Knock

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

6.7171 votes19521h 16mReleased

Drama
Thriller

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

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Released: 18 July 1952
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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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)

Bess Flowers

Woman at Awards Dinner (uncredited)

Charles Flynn

Uniformed Cop at End (uncredited)

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