Knock on Any Door
1949 film by Nicholas Ray / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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."[2]
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Directed by | Nicholas Ray |
Screenplay by | John Monks Jr. Daniel Taradash |
Based on | Knock on Any Door (1947 novel) by Willard Motley |
Produced by | Robert Lord |
Starring | Humphrey Bogart John Derek George Macready Allene Roberts Susan Perry |
Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
Music by | George Antheil |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.1 million[1] |
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