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Knock on Any Door
UNITED STATES · 1949

Knock on Any Door

Nicholas Ray
legal defense urban poverty social injustice youth delinquency crime and redemption
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Synopsis

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

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