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By Kristyn H (8) on 08 May 2006

My personal favourite Marilyn movie. She always wanted to be a serious actress, this is one of her closest movies…

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By Mauricio E (3) on 17 Mar 2006

This film was precussor of the film voyer. Indiscreet window was only filmed two years later…

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By James H (4,675) on 13 Feb 2005

I don't get you, Richard Widmark says to Marilyn Monroe in this thriller. You're like silk on one side and sandpaper on the other…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Feb 2005

Daniel Taradash’s script is contrived in spots, and the main virtue of Roy Ward Baker’s direction is its low-key plainness, yet Monroe—appearing…

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By Paul F (655) on 07 Oct 2004

sigh Another movie not in the RT database…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 07 Jun 2004

Marilyn Monroe, co-starred with Richard Widmark, gives an excellent account of herself in a strictly dramatic role which commands certain attention,…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 01 Jul 1986

It requires a good deal to play a person who is strangely jangled in the head…

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By Maureen Lee Lenker (21) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Dec 1957

Don't Bother to Knock was the first film to truly grant her a juicy dramatic leading role, one that allowed Monroe to tap into her own childhood…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 Jun 1956

The film offered [Monroe] the chance to deliciously unravel as a mentally disturbed babysitter, and she also gained real-world survival skills…

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