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Monkey on My Back
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.
| Release : | 1957 |
| Rating : | 6.9 |
| Studio : | Edward Small Productions, |
| Crew : | Director, Screenplay, |
| Cast : | Cameron Mitchell Dianne Foster Paul Richards Jack Albertson Kathy Garver |
| Genre : | Drama |
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Very disappointing...
One of my all time favorites.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
