Don't Bother to Knock
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Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 film. The drama stars Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes, a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) is staying. Towers sees her through his window and the two meet. Towers witnesses her strange behavor and becomes increasingly aware that Nell is the last person the couple (played by Jim Backus and Lurene Tuttle) should have entrusted with their daughter. This is actress Anne Bancroft's first film. The title credit music was used previously in the film Panic in the Streets (1950).
Cast
- Richard Widmark as Jed Towers
- Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes
- Anne Bancroft as Lyn Lesley
- Jeanne Cagney as Rochelle
- Lurene Tuttle as Ruth Jones
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Eddie Forbes
- Jim Backus as Peter Jones
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