Tokyo Joe / Knock on Any Door [Import]

Tokyo Joe (1949)

Believing his wife perished in a Japanese concentration camp and unaware of the daughter she bore, Air Corps hero Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) finds both alive in a post-war Tokyo, though his wife has remarried and his daughter is the hostage of master spy Baron Kimura (Sessue Hayakawa). Kimura forces Barrett to fly Japanese war criminals out of the country if he ever wants to see his daughter again. With Alexander Knox, Florence Marly. 88 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Knock On Any Door (1949)

Criminal defense attorney Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) had pulled himself up from a boyhood in the slums. Now, when a kid (John Derek) from the old neighborhood whom he had tried to reach out to finds himself on trial for the brutal slaying of a cop, Morton sets out to build a defense...and hopes his belief in his client’s innocence isn’t misplaced. Impactful courtroom drama from Nicholas Ray co-stars George Macready, Allene Roberts, Susan Perry. 100 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Standard; Soundtrack: English. Region Free