John Derek co-starred in Ray's 1949
social drama Knock on Any Door and plays a variation of the same role as Davey Bishop, a young man orphaned as a child and raised by the community, passed around among the families of his small town of Madison.
To my knowledge this is the only time that a movie principally in the Tamil language took the gold with ensemble performances principally by non-professional actors,
knocking out a searing story that is at once a love story, a
social drama, a film noir and a genre film.