After a holdup in a bar, a cop is killed by the robber. A young man with a criminal past is recognized by witnesses, but claims innocence. He turns to a lawyer who used to be his friend. The lawyer tells the jury the history of hardships the defendant has endured.
Liberal propaganda which resembles in plot You Only Live Once (the scene where an employer bullies the protagonist until he fires him is nearly identical in the two films). Knock on Any Door has some amusing underworld characters and the plot moves fast enough to keep one from getting too bored. Its social message is noble and to a certain extent pertinent, but it's delivered with such an amount of exaggeration that it falls flat. Take the sequence I mentioned earlier, for example: a sadistic employer driving his employee mad with anger. It's either unrealistic or something that the government would have no control over, unless it paid every former criminal a salary for not working at all.
Rating: 45
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