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Monkey on My Back (1957)

ALL 05/29/1957 (en) Drama 94 Min
  • Release
    05/29/1957
  • Production
    Edward Small Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    64%
  • Original title
    Monkey on My Back
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

SHOCK by SHOCK...It Jabs Like a Hopped-Up Needle!

Overview

The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the Marines at the outset of WWII. A highly decorated hero, Ross contracts malaria oversees and is given morphine to assuage the pain. By the time he returns to the states, Ross is a confirmed drug addict. Before he can rise to the top again, he must hit rock bottom and his descent into the hell of narcotics dependency is graphically illustrated (so much so that the film was almost denied a Production Code seal). Though a cured Barney Ross served as technical advisor for Monkey on My Back, he ended up suing the producers for defamation of character -- and lost.

  1. André de Toth

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Cameron Mitchell

    Barney Ross

  2. Dianne Foster

    Cathy Holland

  3. Paul Richards

    Rico, Drug Pusher (as Paul E. Richards)

  4. Jack Albertson

    Sam Pian

  5. Kathy Garver

    Noreen

  6. Lisa Golm

    Barney's Mother

  7. Barry Kelley

    Big Ralph

  8. Scotty Beckett

    Corpsman (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 8 , Crews : 4

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Monkey on My Back (1957) 94 Min

ALL 05/29/1957 (en)
Drama
  • Release 05/29/1957
  • Production
    Edward Small Productions
  • Original title Monkey on My Back
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

SHOCK by SHOCK...It Jabs Like a Hopped-Up Needle!

Overview

The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the Marines at the outset of WWII. A highly decorated hero, Ross contracts malaria oversees and is given morphine to assuage the pain. By the time he returns to the states, Ross is a confirmed drug addict. Before he can rise to the top again, he must hit rock bottom and his descent into the hell of narcotics dependency is graphically illustrated (so much so that the film was almost denied a Production Code seal). Though a cured Barney Ross served as technical advisor for Monkey on My Back, he ended up suing the producers for defamation of character -- and lost.

  1. André de Toth

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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