Don't Bother to Knock
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter employed by the hotel where he lives and gradually comes to realize that she's dangerous. Airline pilot Jed stays at the New…
Don't Bother to Knock
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter employed by the hotel where he lives and gradually comes to realize that she's dangerous. Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where his girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy. When the girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters, Nell goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance'. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little wacko. —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> One night in a New York hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers gets the air from his chanteuse girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Joneses, guests at the hotel, need a baby-sitter, and elevator operator Eddie recommends his shapely niece Nell. Jed sees Nell through his window, gets acquainted, and becomes increasingly aware that this disturbed, spooky girl is the last person Mrs. Jones should have entrusted with her daughter. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Don't Bother to Knock
Drama,Film-Noir,Mystery
Film Details
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter employed by the hotel where he lives and gradually comes to realize that she's dangerous. Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where his girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy.
When the girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters, Nell goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance'. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little wacko.
—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> One night in a New York hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers gets the air from his chanteuse girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Joneses, guests at the hotel, need a baby-sitter, and elevator operator Eddie recommends his shapely niece Nell. Jed sees Nell through his window, gets acquainted, and becomes increasingly aware that this disturbed, spooky girl is the last person Mrs.
Jones should have entrusted with her daughter. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>.