Monkey Is Back has a killer who is leaving a mark! Well Dan and Mike must figure out what the motive is in a motiveless crime. Apereas to be motiveless until Mike does some serious leg work. Monkey is Back has the perp as a bitter ex con out for revenge with a bad attitude. There are a few scenes which show how times have changed. The perp confrontation with probably and ex W W 2 vet foreman. A hard but fair foreman ducks out of a sucker punch with a club and levels the the ex con and yells your fired, and everyone just goes back to work. Ex people from a street gang who got on with life before todays back ground checks. One wonders what their fathers and uncles did back in the day during the 50's. Well Monkey is Back ends with some humor and the desperation of older adults during their reunions. Monkey Is Back makes me never want to go to a high school reunion, but is entertaining. 7 stars.
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Class of '56
kapelusznik1812 August 2015
***SPOILERS*** Just released from prison and working in a meat packing plant, it didn't take him long to find employment, after serving a 20 year sentence for robbery and homicide, Charley Belasco, Gray Lockwood, is out for revenge. Not against the law but those who put him up to commit the crime he ended up paying for his fellow students members of the "Saint" gang at his high school. The gang that an eager and wanting to be accepted in Charley was ready to do anything to become a member of even murder!
Using his gang member street name "The Monkey" Charley was now out to off his fellow "Saints" that was to culminate at their 20th reunion in San Francisco using the gang weapon of his choice the now almost extinct zip-gun that he used to commit his crime 20 years ago. After a number of the "Class of 56 Saints" members were knocked off by Charley with him spry painting his street name "The Monkey is Back" at the murder scene it didn't take long for the police in the persons of Let. Det. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, and Inspector Dan Robbins, Richard Hatch, to figure who was behind these killings and whom his future victims were to be; Members of the Class of 56. And they soon realized that the upcoming class 20 year reunion is where the killer was to strike next!
It's also discovered that Charley's next victim who was slated for extinction former "Saint" member and now successful businessman Tim Rossiter, Phillip R. Allen, was not all that worried in getting iced by Charley. In that the love sick Rossiter was more interested in getting a hot date with a hot number at the reunion, a girl of course, who dumped him 20 years ago and in now being divorced feels he can get another shot or crack at her. To him getting together with his former flame was worth more then getting murdered by the revenge seeking Charley Belasco.
A very strange "Streets of San Francisco" episode with Gary Lockwood doing an excellent job of convincingly playing a psycho who became one by trying to get in with the "Saints" and ending up behind bars for the next 20 years. It's true that Charley was manipulated by the "Saints" to commit the crime that landed him behind bars but his later actions showed that he didn't learn anything from it. After killing a shop owner in what had been a tragic accident he now murdered some half dozen fellow "Saint" member in cold blood and was to pay for it not with a 20 years sentence but life behind bars!
Using his gang member street name "The Monkey" Charley was now out to off his fellow "Saints" that was to culminate at their 20th reunion in San Francisco using the gang weapon of his choice the now almost extinct zip-gun that he used to commit his crime 20 years ago. After a number of the "Class of 56 Saints" members were knocked off by Charley with him spry painting his street name "The Monkey is Back" at the murder scene it didn't take long for the police in the persons of Let. Det. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, and Inspector Dan Robbins, Richard Hatch, to figure who was behind these killings and whom his future victims were to be; Members of the Class of 56. And they soon realized that the upcoming class 20 year reunion is where the killer was to strike next!
It's also discovered that Charley's next victim who was slated for extinction former "Saint" member and now successful businessman Tim Rossiter, Phillip R. Allen, was not all that worried in getting iced by Charley. In that the love sick Rossiter was more interested in getting a hot date with a hot number at the reunion, a girl of course, who dumped him 20 years ago and in now being divorced feels he can get another shot or crack at her. To him getting together with his former flame was worth more then getting murdered by the revenge seeking Charley Belasco.
A very strange "Streets of San Francisco" episode with Gary Lockwood doing an excellent job of convincingly playing a psycho who became one by trying to get in with the "Saints" and ending up behind bars for the next 20 years. It's true that Charley was manipulated by the "Saints" to commit the crime that landed him behind bars but his later actions showed that he didn't learn anything from it. After killing a shop owner in what had been a tragic accident he now murdered some half dozen fellow "Saint" member in cold blood and was to pay for it not with a 20 years sentence but life behind bars!
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