John Monks Jr. (Writer)

The Gong Show Movie

A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.

Release Date1980-05-23

Charactersd Tourist Man

Vote Count14

Paradise Alley

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

Release Date1978-09-22

Charactersd Mickey the Bartender

Vote Count145

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

Release Date1955-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

So This Is Love

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

Release Date1953-07-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Paradise Bay

Paradise Bay is an American daytime soap opera which aired on NBC Daytime from September 27, 1965 to July 1, 1966. The show was created by Ted Corday who created the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives. The show aired in the morning at 11:30 AM; it was paired with Morning Star which aired before it and also was created by Ted Corday. Paradise Bay was one of the first soap operas to air in color.

Release Date1965-09-27

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Wild Harvest

Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.

Release Date1947-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

About Face

Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.

Release Date1952-05-23

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count3

13 Rue Madeleine

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.

Release Date1947-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count37

The West Point Story

A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

Release Date1950-11-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

No Man Is an Island

The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.

Release Date1962-09-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Strike Up the Band

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.

Release Date1940-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count25

The Delta Factor

Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to rescue a scientist from a dictator-run island, disguised as a drug dealer with another agent posing as his wife, while simultaneously plotting to prove his innocence.

Release Date1970-05-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count6

The Mad Miss Manton

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Release Date1938-10-21

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count38

Where's Charley?

Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.

Release Date1952-05-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Brother Rat and a Baby

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

Release Date1940-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

The House on 92nd Street

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

Release Date1945-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count44

Knock on Any Door

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Release Date1949-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count64

We Are the Marines

The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the Few and the Proud at Parris Island and elsewhere. Finally, wartime newsreel footage is adroitly blended with dramatized re-enactments to illustrate the contributions - and the utter necessity-of the marines in WW II.

Release Date1942-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The People Against O'Hara

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Release Date1951-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27

Dial 1119

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons of a bar hostage.

Release Date1950-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count28

High Tor

High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.

Release Date1956-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2