Monkey on My Back
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Monkey on My Back
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Watch Monkey on My Back (1957) online in Full HD on HDZone. A movie spanning Drama, directed by André de Toth, starring Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards. Rated 6.8. Press play to stream instantly with your choice of voiceover — HDZone remembers exactly where you stopped and the translation you picked, on every device.
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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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