What was the name of the movie about barney ross life?

[cotto16]

would like to see it

[Terry A]

"Body and Soul" (1947)

[Yogi]

It was called 'Monkey On My Back', I do believe, though I've never seen it myself. Came out some time in the 60's.

[Terry A]

It was called 'Monkey On My Back', I do believe, though I've never seen it myself. Came out some time in the 60's.

Yogi,
I'm not familiar with "Monkey On My Back"....I do know never to bet against you knowing your boxing history, so maybe you're right.

Here's something I got off of another webpage on "Body & Soul"....

When Ross was undergoing detoxification at Lexington Hospital (more of a prison), he was crushed to discover that Hollywood had cancelled plans to make a movie based on his life. While it was one thing to make a rags-to-riches tale about a ***ish boxer who then becomes a war hero, drug addiction was still a taboo to depict on the silver screen. They did go on to make a movie based loosely on his life called "Body and Soul." There were so many obvious connections to the Barney Ross story that the studios were forced to cough up $60,000 to the boxer for what amount copyright infringements.

Since this was a film written, directed and starring a number of figures who would eventually be blacklisted in the 1950s and since it is regarded as a 'noir' classic, I watched it shortly after finishing Douglas Century's biography for comparison's sake.

The film was written by Abraham Polonsky, who was one of the Hollywood Ten and one of the industry's finest writers. In teaming up with director Robert Rossen, it was clear that two of the major talents on the left were joining forces. In his biography of Polonsky titled "A Very Dangerous Citizen," Paul Buhle describes Rossen's impressive past:
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I'm curious myself now.....

[Clegg]

Here are the IMDB pages for the two films mentioned:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050719/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039204/