Against the wishes of his law partners, slick talking lawyer Andrew Morton takes the case of Nick Romano, a troubled punk from the slums, partly because he himself came from the same slums and partly because … See more

• Humphrey Bogart as Andrew Morton
• John Derek as Nick Romano
• George Macready as Dist. Atty. Kerman
• Allene Roberts as … See more

Knock on Any Door, based on Willard Motley's 1947 novel of the same name, was Hollywood's second major-studio movie adapted from a novel by an African-American author. (The first was The Foxes of Harrow (1947), adapted from a novel by Frank Yerby See more

Critical response
New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther called the film "a pretentious social melodrama" and blasted the film's message and screenplay. He wrote: "Rubbish! The only shortcoming of society which this film … See more

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