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The 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.
- Fred Kaz
- The Monitors, by Keith Laumer
- October 8, 1969 (New York)
- Bernard Sahlins
The Monitors: Directed by Jack Shea. With Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Larry Storch, Avery Schreiber. Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
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- Jack Shea
- PG
- Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Larry Storch
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- Jack Shea
- Sci-Fi
- Guy Stockwell
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Brief Synopsis. Unusual sci-fi invasion film, with a black-comedy twist: The Earth is taken over by The Monitors, aliens who run it like hall monitors in a 1950's high school, with overtones of Big Brother. The film follows the progress of the human underground rebellion.
- Jack Shea, Rusty Meek
- Guy Stockwell
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Monitors was an attempt by the film equipment maker Bell and Howell to establish Chicago as a new center for filmmaking. Unfortunately, the film bombed and their attempt failed. Larry Storch plays a military madman, Keenan Wynn plays a stuffy general, and Ed Begley is the President of the United States.