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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, Allene Roberts, Candy Toxtin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Knock on Any Door |
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A small time hoodlum, Nick Romano, is accused of robbing a bar and killing a cop. He calls a lawyer friend of his and says he's innocent.
At first, the lawyer, Andy, refuses to take the case, but he quickly changes his mind.
At the trial, Andy begins by telling the jury Nick's life story. About how his dad died in prison, how he turned to crime to support himself and how he spent some time in a harsh reformatory. He explains how Nick repeatedly pulled himself out of the slums, but kept falling back in. He tells how Nick met a nice girl, settled down and got married and got an honest job.
But, after being fired he returned to crime. After robbing a ticket booth he returns home to find that his wife had killed herself.
Andy recounted Nick's entire troubled life.
Two of Nick's friends were his alibi, lying about where he was during the crime.
Nick took the stand and denied everything. But, after several hours of being badgered and taunted by the prosecutor he broke. To Andy's surprise and disappointment, Nick confessed to everything.
At the sentencing Andy begged the judge for mercy, but it was no use. Nick was sentenced to death in the electric chair.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- finding out whether someone is really guilty
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- very skinny (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 1
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 ()
Kind of violence:
- guns
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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