Knock on Any Door (1949)

Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041555/ Year: 1949 Director: Nicholas Ray Country: EUA Genres: Crime/Noir Run Time: 98 min. Color Type: B&W Language: English Subtitles: portuguese (br) Actors: Humphrey Bogart John Derek George MacReady Allene Roberts Candy Toxton Mickey Knox Barry Kelley Vídeo Codec: XviD Vídeo Bitrate: 1.301 Kbps Áudio Codec: MPEG1/2 L3 Áudio Bitrate: 64 kbps 48 KHz Resolution: 640 x 480 Aspect Ratio: 1.333 Screen: Full(4x3) Frame Rate: 23.976 FPS Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest young male discovery John Derek. The first production of Bogart's Santana company, the film casts Bogart as attorney Andrew Morton. A product of the slums, Morton is persuaded to take the case of underprivileged teenager Nick Romano (Derek), who has been arrested on a murder charge. Through flashbacks, Morton demonstrates that Romano is more a victim of society than a natural-born killer. Though this defense strategy does not have the desired result on the jury thanks to the badgering of DA Kernan (George Macready), Morton does manage to arouse sympathy for the plight of those trapped by birth and circumstance in a dead-end existence. As Nick Romano, John Derek would never be better, nor would ever again play a character who struck so responsive a chord with the audience. Nick's oft-repeated credo--"Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse"--became the clarion call for a generation of disenfranchised youth. Director Nicholas Ray would later expand on themes touched upon in Knock on a Any Door in his juvenile delinquent "chef d'oeuvre" Rebel without a Cause. Viewers are advised to watch for future TV personalities Cara Williams and Si Melton in uncredited minor roles. Knock on Any Door spawned a belated sequel in 1960, Let No Man Write My Epitaph.

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