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The Monitors is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Jack Shea released in USA on 8 october 1969 with Guy Stockwell
The Monitors (1969)
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Add to a movie listThe Monitors is a 1969 U.S. satirical science fiction film. Shot in Chicago, it was the first film production of the city's Second City comedy troupe and was coproduced and financed by the Bell and Howell film-equipment manufacturing company (then based in nearby Skokie) in an effort to establish Chicago as a film production center. It is based on the novel of the same name by Keith Laumer.
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Earth has been taken over by a benign group of aliens known as the Monitors, gentlemanly figures clad in black overcoats and bowler hats. They are dedicated to suppressing humanity's propensities for violence, sex, war, and trouble, enforcing their ethos with spray cans of a pacifying gas and with television ads praising the Monitors' rule—the latter featuring cameos by a variety of comedic actors, as well as bandleader Xavier Cugat and Illinois senator Everett Dirksen (who died before the film's release).Actors
Guy Stockwell
(Harry Jordan)
Susan Oliver
(Barbara Cole)
Avery Schreiber
(Max Jordan)
Sherry Jackson
(Mona)
Shepperd Strudwick
(Tersh Jeterax)
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