Humphrey Bogart
Andrew Morton
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and the kid, riddled with guilty implications, bad record-neighborhood-attitude, so Boge's gotta sift through and discredit a'bunch'a trumped up witnesses and evidence, somehow make a disenfranchised young American boy care; care ta fight the system, and boy 'o' boy, Boge's quick decisive and stealth, fight him, you lose double, it's like poking a rabid fanged animal with a stick, messing with ...
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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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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Nicholas Ray
- 1949-03-17
Box office. $2.1 million [1] 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 ...
Andy's final courtroom plea on Nick's behalf becomes a broader cry for social justice. "Knock on any door," in the slums, he tells the jury, and you will find someone like Nick. Knock on Any Door (1949) is based on the critically acclaimed, best-selling 1947 novel of the same title by Willard Motley. Motley, like fellow African-American writer ...
