Knock on Any Door (1949)

Directed by

Nicholas Ray

Genre

drama film, film noir, trial film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A public defender represents a young man charged with murder. The film follows the trial and the flashbacks revealing the defendant's troubled past.

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What happens

Knock on Any Door is a 1949 American courtroom trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. The movie was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motley. The picture gave actor John Derek his breakthrough role as young hoodlum Nick Romano, whose motto was "Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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