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Mar 1, 1989 · Knock On Any Door. Paperback – March 1, 1989. Willard Motley's 1947 best seller shocked the nation with its harsh depiction of the dark underbelly of the American dream. Knock on Any Door dramatizes young immigrant Nick Romano's struggle to survive when his father's business folds, leaving his family with no choice but to move to a poor ...
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Willard Francis Motley was an American writer. He worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers Project. Motley's first and best-known novel was Knock on Any Door, which was made into a movie by the same name (1947) starring Humphrey Bogart.
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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. 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."
Encyclopedia of World Biography entry on Willard Motley. The Literary Encyclopedia's entry on Knock on Any Door. Finding aid for the Willard Motley Papers at Northern Illinois University. Part of his early life is retold in the 1948 radio drama "Mike Rex (Willard Motley)", a presentation from Destination Freedom written by Richard Durham
Jun 21, 2010 · Knock on any door by Motley, Willard, 1909-1965. Publication date 1947 Publisher New York, London, D. Appleton-Century company, inc Collection
Books. Knock on Any Door. "Willard Motley's 1947 best seller shocked the nation with its harsh depiction of the dark underbelly of the American dream. Knock on Any Door dramatizes young immigrant Nick Romano's struggle to survive when his father's business folds, leaving his family with no choice but to move to a poor neighborhood across town.
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KNOCK ON ANY DOOR. by Willard Motley ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 5, 1947. This is the most obsessive book I've read since- perhaps, Strange Fruit. It is the sort of book one would like to ignore, to forget, because it indicts every member of society in such fearless terms, while offering no specific for the ills it presents.
