GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

aubrimmer This movie stars Marilyn Monroe as a women who appears all seductive and playing the usual role she is always portrayed as but then it takes a dark turn, as expected from noir films. I was a little curious with the beginning of the movie because I heard it was dark but it started off as a romantic comedy of sorts and it had me worried. But I was not disappointed. I also was not disappointed by MM's performance. She was very convincing with her gradual change from sane to psychotic and suicidal. Usually she plays a "dumb blonde" character but instead she showed she could play a dark twisted individual. Now this film had some good camera work. The scenes shooting back and forth between the rooms across from each other from the courtyard was great. It was interesting how the film was shot within the hotel and limited to that. The film really helped show that MM is more to her than it seemed as an actor. She was capable of playing in dramas rather than the comedies she is known for. It was a great performance and a good film noir. What was really interesting about this film was that is showed that everybody is not what they seem. That our appearances are deceiving, so be careful of the pretty faces since they hide a dark side. People judge so much on our appearances and preconceived ideas of who they think we are. This film shows this all, of how a pretty face can hide the unstable, suicidal, and fragile state within.

blanoue324 Having never seen a Marilyn Monroe film I was expecting a little more. The actor Richard Widmark reminds me a lot of John Wayne. He plays a very serious character in this movie. I found the plot to be weird. The guy meets a woman he sees in a room across the way. Then he goes across to meet her and she falls in love with him. It just seems a little too made up. Marilyn Monroe plays a very mentally fragile woman. But she does it very well. She's very good at playing this crazy damsel. The Lighting in this movie makes Marilyn Monroe look perfect in every scene. It is also used very well when Marilyn is threatening the girl. Everything is dark which relates to her sinister threats. The camera work is also good. The movie is filled with close up's of all the conversations. One shot in the movie that is very good is when Marilyn rides down the elevator and the door pens but the cage is still there making it look like she's in jail. I didn't particularly like this movie because the plot was just too weird for me.

Gavin O. "Don't Bother To Knock" was decently entertaining, if somewhat short. The fact that it's entirely set in one location doesn't help it any - more than halfway through the movie I began to wonder when it'd leave the hotel, but to my surprise (and dismay) it never did. I suppose it turned out to be a very different movie than I was led to believe it was (but that's more the fault of whoever wrote the description for it on Netflix than of the movie itself). I thought it was interesting how Nell's mental illness was portrayed. In some scenes she's detached from reality, in others she borders on deranged (such as when she almost pushes the kid out the window), but in the end she's seen as tragic. I don't know if this is the first film to portray mental illness in such a light, but I'd imagine it's among the first to portray the mentally ill as more than just "crazy."

dougdoepke A disturbed young woman takes a baby-sitting job in a hotel and attracts a male guest whose girl has just rejected him.The movie's a Marilyn oddity. Looks like TCF was floating a trial balloon to see what the promising Monroe's acting limits might be. But they didn't want to spend much money in the process. So, except for leading man Widmark (probably under contract), the low-end production makes do with basically one apartment, dour photography, and a journeyman director (Baker). At the same time, the script appears constrained by a compromised role for Marilyn. Her Nell is clearly disturbed, and perhaps a menace. Yet the producers want to make her pitiable, but not dislikable. So we get hints of disturbance and nothing more. Trouble is that drains away what suspense would be generated by anything more truly pathological. Consequently, scenes of a confused Nell accumulate without building.Marilyn's de-glamorized as she should be, no curvy treats here. Instead she's made wide-eyed pretty in blue-collar garb that's not exactly an eye-catcher. She does okay in the role, but the production's working against her. As the studio would soon determine, her real talent lay in musical comedy where her personality could sparkle. In that career sense, the film amounts to something of a sorting out process. Not so for Anne Bancroft who really shines in her first movie role. No wonder she quickly moved up. Anyhow, the movie stands as something of a curiosity piece, now mainly for movie research and hard-core Marilyn fans.