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Monkey on My Back(Movie, 1957)

1h 34min | Genre: Drama
Monkey on My BackRating: 3.4/5 (with 22 votes)
Monkey on My Back is a 1957 American biographical film directed by Andre de Toth. It stars Cameron Mitchell as Barney Ross, a real-life world champion boxer and World War II hero. Though heavily fictionalized, the film deals with Ross's addiction to heroin. ()
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About 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.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 05/29/1957
Director: André de Toth
Producer: Edward Small
Film Editor: Grant Whytock
Director of Photography: Maury Gertsman
Keywords: drugs
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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