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Here are a few more things worth knowing about the Edward Small Productions drama flick. Monkey on My Back starring Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson has a NR rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 34 min. The release date of the movie is May 29th, 1957. The movie received a user score of 68/100 on TMDb, which is based on reviews from 6 active users.
Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "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."
