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Don't Bother to Knock(1952)

6.6(168)
1h 16m
1952-07-18

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

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Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark
Jed Towers
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Nell Forbes
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft
Lyn Lesley

Keywords

hotelbased on novel or bookdetectivepilotbabysittersingermurdermadnessvoyeur

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