About this title: 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 ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 02/08/2005
UPC:027616919205
Description: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson, Kathy Garver. New. 1957 Run time: 94. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
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