Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready

Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife s...( read more  read more... )ome jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court emphasizes the evils of the slums.

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Directed by: Nicholas Ray

Release Date: February 22, 1949

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  • July 29, 2008
    Nick Ray's direction shines when Knock on Any Door isn't wallowing in its own mediocrity, heavy-handed social commentary and dull performances. Bogart and Macready aside, of course. Bogart plays an attorney who tries to save John Derek (playing an Italian) from a murder rap. The ...( read more)story follows Derek's character more than it showcases Bogart's. If you watch this movie you'll quickly understand why it's not a must-see Bogart movie. If you're looking for a much better pairing of Bogart and Ray you'll do well to watch In a Lonely Place.
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  • groaningbitch
    January 4, 2009
    fed up with director nicholas ray's futile sympathy for the juvenile delinquents, and ray tries to beautify them as the victim of social diseases, true, but ain't lots of men have lived thru this and be a man on his own ground! ray seems to solicit humprey bogart as the paternal figure who sympathizes the young protagonist "pretty boy", ain't lots of bogie's early hoodlum pictures are about young men immersed within the urban jungle then fledge into a mighty man who rob and thieve as the hard-boiled tough guys! nicholas ray's desolated youth all seem to voluntarily effeminate themselves into irrevocable fragility...

    CUT IT OFF, YOU WHINING YOUTH, BE A MAN like john garfield (who is the cinematic original rebel without that whining craps!)

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