Monkey on My Back
6,9
“SHOCK by SHOCK...It Jabs Like a Hopped-Up Needle!”
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.
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Cast
8 personen
Cameron Mitchell
Barney Ross
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Paul Richards
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Jack Albertson
Sam Pian
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Kathy Garver
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Lisa Golm
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Barry Kelley
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Scotty Beckett
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André de Toth Regie · Anthony Veiller Scenario Crane Wilbur Scenario
Release (Verenigde Staten) 29 mei 1957 · Gemaakt in Verenigde Staten · Productie United Artists Pictures
Productie
Edward Small Productions
Productie
United Artists Pictures
Studio
Verenigde Staten
Gemaakt in
Talen
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels
Gesproken
Engels
Releasedatums
Verenigde Staten · 29 mei 1957
Bioscoop
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