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Category Archives: Roy Baker
Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film
That truly disturbing suspense character, the unhinged baby sitter, helped to get entrenched with Mischief, Charlotte Armstrong’s novel subsequently filmed as Don’t Bother to Knock with Marilyn Monroe. We begin in New York as Peter and Ruth Jones await the arrival of … Continue reading