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)
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
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January 4, 2009fed 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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