Humphrey Bogart, *Knock at any Door 1949 Film Noir.. Video

Humphrey Bogart, *Knock at any Door 1949 Film Noir.. en.wikipedia.org Producer Mark Hellinger purchased the rights to Knock on Any Door and Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando were to star in the production. However, after Hellinger died in late 1947, Robert Lord and Bogart formed a corporation to produce the film: Santana Productions, named after Bogart's private sailing yacht. Jack Warner was reportedly furious at this, fearing that other stars would do the same and major studios would lose their power. According to critic Hal Erickson, the often-repeated credo spoken by the character Nick Romano: "Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse," would become the "clarion call for a generation of disenfranchised youth