Hollywood Noir: ‘Monkey on my Back’ & ‘The Midnight Story’ Reviews by Alex DeleonFriday, April 5, 2019The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.Director:
André De Toth
Writers:
Ivan Bunny (biographical material )
Stars:
Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster,
Cameron Mitchell was two fisted as boxing champ Barney Ross with a Monkey on his Back. Produced by Edward Small up against the censorship code for a British company. Strong movie, terrific war scenes in a driving rain on Guadalcanal. Good boxing scenes.
Barney, holder of three boxing titles, retires after taking a beating from Henry Armstrong. Joins Marines at 33 and earns a silver star for valor in combat. However, he becomes addicted to the morphine administered to him to relieve the pain of his battle wounds. Wife (Diane Foster) walks out on him twice, because of his gambling first, and drug addictions later,...
André De Toth
Writers:
Ivan Bunny (biographical material )
Stars:
Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster,
Cameron Mitchell was two fisted as boxing champ Barney Ross with a Monkey on his Back. Produced by Edward Small up against the censorship code for a British company. Strong movie, terrific war scenes in a driving rain on Guadalcanal. Good boxing scenes.
Barney, holder of three boxing titles, retires after taking a beating from Henry Armstrong. Joins Marines at 33 and earns a silver star for valor in combat. However, he becomes addicted to the morphine administered to him to relieve the pain of his battle wounds. Wife (Diane Foster) walks out on him twice, because of his gambling first, and drug addictions later,...
- 4/18/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Viewed at the 17th Annual Los Angeles Indian Film Festival, April 13, 2019Namdev Bhau In Search of Silence is an ambitious second film by the talented young Indian filmmaker Dar Gai (Daria Gaikalova) who is of Ukrainian origin but is now a permanent resident of India.Her first film Three and a Half (2018) was a striking debut feature in three long single takes that was seen at many festivals and showed tremendous promise for the future. Her new film, In Search of Silence, perhaps plagued by the well known “sophomore jinx”, is a high concept opus that does not quite fulfill the height of its concept or the earlier promise.She took a big chance by casting a non professional of 65 with no acting experience as her central character. In my estimation this was a fatal mistake. Mr. Namdev was not very convincing, in fact little more than annoying, playing himself...
- 4/18/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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