Knock on Wood

Energetic comedian Danny Kaye is paired with Mai Zetterling as a doctor charged with curing his phobias.

  • Directors

    Melvin Frank and Norman Panama

  • With

    Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns

  • USA 1954. 103min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

Danny Kaye revels in his zany comedy antics, this time as a psychologically troubled ventriloquist. In her first and last experience in Hollywood, Zetterling plays the psychiatrist who cures his marriage aversion in more ways than one. It’s a somewhat thankless role that she fulfils convincingly and with more than a little charm.

The screening of Knock on Wood on Wednesday 7 May 18:10 NFT2 will be introduced by Professor Louis Lemkow, Mai Zetterling’s son.