Don't Bother to Knock
1952
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Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 17, 2023 Full Review Nell Dodson Russell Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Clash by Night is the kind of dramatic corn that housewives sick of washing diapers and wiping noses...
- (17)
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Fritz Lang
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
"Clash by Night" is an unpleasant drama with a bitter story and a moralist conclusion, actually a minor film of Master Fritz Lang in his career in Hollywood. Barbara Stanwyck has another magnificent performance in the role of a woman hardened by her bad sentimental and life experiences in the big city that returns home due to the lack of option.
Clash by Night brilliantly tells how some lonely folks break out from their shadowy existence, as if that darkness was a prison where survival at any cost is the name of the game." [10] The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 73% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 15 reviews, marking the film as "Fresh."
Jul 10, 2013 · Physically imposing, ruggedly handsome and incredibly misogynistic, there is little in Earl a woman should be drawn to, but Mae is, against her better judgment. It’s not as if Mae doesn’t give marriage and motherhood an honest effort. She does. For a time – for half the movie, to be exact – there is stillness in the waters.
Review by Owen ★★★★ 4. Grown up, eventually quite desolate, noir tinged melodrama from Lang who seems to realise that in Stanwyck and Ryan he had two leads who could plumb whole new depths of self loathing mundane badness. It lays out a view of middle aged lust, fear and compromise in a working class Steinbeck setting.
- (5.5K)
- RKO Radio Pictures, Wald/Krasna Productions
- Fritz Lang
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. Fairly engrossing until its weak-kneed and unconvincing conclusion. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2023....
It wants to take a hard look at sad, hard lives, yet the dialogue isn’t campy enough to work on its own stagey, stylized terms. It’s so obviously ‘written’ that I kept wondering if a cinematic flourish by Lang would fire the film to life. That moment never came.
