Monkey on My Back (1957)
SHOCK by SHOCK...It Jabs Like a Hopped-Up Needle!
94 min
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.
- Data de estreia
- 29 de maio de 1957
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Trailer
Elenco
- Cameron Mitchell como Barney Ross
- Dianne Foster como Cathy Holland
- Paul Richards como Rico
- Jack Albertson como Sam Pian
- Kathy Garver como Noreen
- Lisa Golm como Barney's Mother
- Barry Kelley como Big Ralph
- Dayton Lummis como J.L. McAvoy
- Lewis Charles como Lew Surati
- Raymond Greenleaf como Dr. A.J. Latham
Equipe
- André De Toth · Diretor(a)
- Crane Wilbur · Roteirista
- Anthony Veiller · Roteirista
- Paul Dudley · Roteirista
- Ivan Bunny · Roteirista
- Edward Small · Produtor(a)
- Paul Sawtell · Compositor(a)
- Bert Shefter · Compositor(a)
- Maury Gertsman · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Grant Whytock · Editor(a)