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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.
Knock on Any Door: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With Humphrey Bogart, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Candy Toxton. An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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In Knock on Any Door (1949), a tense courtroom drama with undercurrents of social commentary, Humphrey Bogart plays Andy Morton, a lawyer from the slums. He finds himself defending an old friend, Nick Romano (John Derek), accused of murdering a policeman during a robbery.
Having pulled himself out of the poverty and squalor of a big city slum, idealist lawyer Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) agrees to defend a young juvenile delinquent from his old...
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Knock on Any Door is a 1949 American courtroom trial FILM NOlR directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. The picture gave actor John Derek his breakthrough role, and was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motley.
Knock on Any Door. 1949 · 1 hr 40 min. TV-PG. Drama · Crime. A young man, a product of skid row, accused of murdering a cop, is defended by a prominent attorney who has known him from childhood.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court. 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.
Having pulled himself out of the poverty and squalor of a big city slum, idealist lawyer Andrew Morton agrees to defend a young juvenile delinquent from his old neighborhood who stands accused of murdering a policeman.
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 some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide.
