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Auction History Result 3k527 MONKEY ON MY BACK 3sheet '57 Cameron Mitchell chooses a woman over dope and kicks the habit! Date Sold 1/13/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Monkey on my Back, The Story of Barney Ross, the 1957 Andre de Toth romantic drug addiction boxing biographical melodrama ("'How can I get this monkey off my back?'"; "The Story of Barney Ross"; "Not since 'The Man With The Golden Arm' has the screen told so daring a story!"; "The true story of a man who had to choose between dope and the woman he loved!"; "Junkie! It means Dope-Fiend... The hottest Hell on Earth!"; "The craving rips through your head, your guts... You tear the wallpaper off the walls and skin off your chest... You can hang your hat on the eyeballs... You freeze, you burn, you drown! You don't die - but you wish you could!"; "Champ of Champs... Marine Hero... Until He Caught The 'Drug Habit' - and Hit Rock Bottom!"; "He never could have come back without her!"; "He kicked the 'dope' habit! The greatest battle a champ ever won!"; "Champ of Champs... Marine Hero... Dope Addict!"; "Shock by Shock it jabs like a hopped-up needle!"; "Today - A Drug Addict! Yesterday - a Marine hero... Idol of millions!"; "Today - a guy hooked by the dope habit! Yesterday - The Idol of Millions..."; "The no-holds-barred story of a champ of champs... A marine hero... Who suddenly turned into a drug addict... A screaming animal who'd kill for a 'fix'!"; "Written by Crane Wilbur, Anthony Veiller and Paul Dudley"; the true story of Barney Ross, born Dov-Ber David Rosofsky, a Jewish World War II war hero, Golden Gloves Champion professional boxer, and morphine addict, who beat his addiction and later gave lectures to students about the dangers of drugs!) starring Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson, Kathy Garver, Lisa Golm, Barry Kelley, and Dayton Lummis NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster comes with a really cool corrective snipe (there are two examples of the snipe, for unknown reasons)! On one side it has the same blank black background as the top left of the poster, and on the other side it says: "BILLPOSTER - IMPORTANT! 3 SHEET 'MONKEY ON MY BACK' USE THIS SNIPE TO COVER PANEL 'TODAY - A DRUG ADDICT! Yesterday - a Marine hero... Idol of millions!' ON LEFT HAND SIDE OF 3 SHEET!". My best guess is that the theaters received complaints from angry people who did not like the connection of Marine hero and drug addict, so, they printed this snipe (and the back of the snipe is the same color yellow as the background of the poster, so when it would be glued on with the writing face down, it would blend in with the regular background and obliterate the tagline)! This three-sheet was printed in 2 sections. Condition: good to very good. There are many creases, several tears, and some areas of tiny paper loss along the foldlines that were on the outside when the poster was fully folded. There are some creases, smudges, and tiny tears on some foldlines, and some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds. Learn More about condition grades 
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