Country: USA
Year: 1952
Duration: 76'
Abandoned by his fiancée (Ann Bancroft), an airline pilot (Richard Widmark) courts a babysitter who is staying with him at his hotel, but he soon realizes that the young woman is not as well-balanced as she appears and that it is above all the child in her care who is in danger. Part melodrama, part film noir, this is a claustrophobic, theatrically structured work, set entirely in a single location over the course of a long night. The film revealed Monroe’s dramatic acting abilities, which were still largely underestimated by critics at the time, and launched Bancroft’s career as a sensual nightclub singer.
Biography
film director
Roy Ward Baker
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
The October Man (Prigioniero della paura, 1947), Don’t Bother to Knock (La tua bocca brucia, 1952), A Night to Remember (Titanic: latitudine 41 Nord, 1958), Quatermass and the Pitt (L’astronave degli esseri perduti, 1967), Vampire Lovers (Vampiri amanti, 1970), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (Barbara, il mostro di Londra, 1971), Asylum (La morte dietro il cancello, 1972), The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (La leggenda dei sette vampiri d’oro, 1974), Masks of Death (La maschera della morte, 1984).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Roy Ward Baker. STORY: from the novel by Charlotte Armstrong. SCREENPLAY: Daniel Taradash. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Lucien Ballard. EDITING: George A. Gittens. SPECIAL EFFECTS: Ray Kellogg. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Richard Irvine, Lyle R. Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, Thomas Little. COSTUME DESIGN: Travilla. MAKE-UP: Ben Nye. MUSIC: Lionel Newman. CAST: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Elisha Cook Jr., Donna Corcoran, Lurene Tuttle, Jim Backus, Verna Felton, Willis Bouchey, Don Beddoe, Jeanne Cagney. PRODUCER: Julian Blaustein for Twentieth Century Fox. CONTACT: