Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
773.702.8575
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Knock on Any Door
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Tuesday Feb 14 (7pm)
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$5
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"Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse," says Nick Romano (John Derek), a young man accused of murdering a police officer in cold blood in this dark courtroom noir. Humphrey Bogart plays Andrew Morton, his lawyer. Morton is compelled to take the case in part because he handled — and bungled — the trial of Nick's father years earlier, and sent the innocent man to prison. Having grown up in the same slum as Nick, Morton tries to point out the ways in which society traps impoverished young people into lives of crime. Bogart co-founded his own production company to produce this tense social melodrama. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
