Category Archives: Roy Baker

2014 Book to Movie Challenge – completed

Posted on 29 December 2014 by

Well, we all like a good sequel and when Katie over at her Doing Dewey blog asked me to co-host this challenge, I just couldn’t resist (hubris is a terrible thing)! I selected the Movie Auteur level (24 books to be reviewed and … Continue reading →

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Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film

Posted on 12 August 2014 by

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 →

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