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Knock on Any Door
Directed by
Nicholas Ray
Not Rated
1949
1h 40m
Crime
,
Drama
,
and more
6.6
69%
57%
6.1
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An attorney defends a young hoodlum charged with murdering a policeman using the oppressiveness of his client's upbringing in the slums to appeal to the sympathies of the jury.
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Cast of Knock on Any Door
Humphrey Bogart
Andrew Morton / Executive Producer
John Derek
Nick Romano
George Macready
Dist. Atty. Kerman
Allene Roberts
Emma
Candy Toxton
Adele Morton
Mickey Knox
Vito
Barry Kelley
Judge Drake
Florence Auer
Aunt Lena (uncredited)
Vince Barnett
Carl Swanson - Bartender (uncredited)
Argentina Brunetti
Ma Romano (uncredited)
George Chandler
Cashier (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Barber (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Kid Fingers Carnahan (uncredited)
Curt Conway
Ed Elkins (uncredited)
Dudley Dickerson
Bootblack (uncredited)
Sam Flint
Prison Warden (uncredited)
Jody Gilbert
Gussie (uncredited)
William Haade
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Myron Healey
Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Dewey Martin
Butch (uncredited)
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Knock on Any Door Ratings & Reviews
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Nell Dodson Russell
A suspense-packed movie that packs an audience wallop.
New York Age
Jesse H. Walker
Although the screenwriters of the best-selling novel take the usual and sometimes puzzling Hollywood liberties in interpreting an author's work for the screen, the movie retains Motley's searching and biting theme.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
The courtroom perorations are drab, but Nicholas Ray takes off in the fervid slums
Variety
Variety Staff
Nicholas Ray's direction stresses the realism of the script taken from Willard Motley's novel of the same title, and gives the film a hard, taut pace that compels complete attention.
TV Guide
This hard-hitting crime melodrama offers excellent direction from the always interesting Nicholas Ray and a fine performance from Bogart.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
A pretentiously 'social' melodrama which came to the Astor yesterday.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Though Ray's film has a strong sense of social and moral outrage, the narrative doesn't bear out the simplistic conclusions arrived at.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Nicholas Ray wrestles with his social consciousness and loses in this drab 1949 drama.
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