Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Directed by
Roy Ward Baker

Writing credits
Charlotte Armstrong (novel)
Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

Cast
Richard Widmark ... Jed Towers
Marilyn Monroe ... Nell Forbes
Anne Bancroft ... Lyn Lesley
Donna Corcoran ... Bunny Jones
Jeanne Cagney ... Rochelle
Lurene Tuttle ... Ruth Jones
Elisha Cook Jr. ... Eddie Forbes
Jim Backus ... Peter Jones
Verna Felton ... Mrs. Emma Ballew
Willis Bouchey ... Joe the Bartender
Don Beddoe ... Mr. Ballew
Gloria Blondell ... Janey
Grace Hayle ... Mrs. McMurdock
Michael Ross ... House Detective

Taglines
You never met her type before...
...a wicked sensation as the lonely girl in room 809!

Plot
One night in a New York hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers gets the air from his chanteuse girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Joneses, guests at the hotel, need a baby-sitter, and elevator operator Eddie recommends his shapely niece Nell. Jed sees Nell through his window, gets acquainted, and becomes increasingly aware that this disturbed, spooky woman is the last person Mrs. Jones should have entrusted with her daughter...

Trivia
The title credits music is re-used from Panic in the Streets (1950).

This was Anne Bancroft's first film. It was also Marilyn Monroe's 18th film and an attempt to prove to critics that she could act.

The events in the film take place in real-time.