The MONITORS

The MONITORS
   Film (1969). Bell \& Howell Productions/Commonwealth United/Second City. Dir Jack Shea, starring Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber, Sherry Jackson, with cameos by Keenan Wynn, Ed Begley and others. Screenplay Myron J. Gold, based on The Monitors (1966) by Keith LAUMER. 92 mins. Colour.
   Filled with bizarre jokes and moments of stunning banality, this film - or string of revue sketches - made in Chicago by the Second City cabaret troupe, concerns an invasion of Earth by superior ALIENS whoenforce on the population a system of brotherly love and nonviolence. Dressed in black overcoats, black hats and dark glasses, the monitorscontrol people by spraying them with a pacifying gas; a resistance movement is formed and the aliens are overthrown. An oddity, which flopped badly, the film is a product of a time when the hippy flower power counterculture was attempting to usher in an era of peace and happiness, but followed close on the heels of police brutality against hippy protesters outside the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.
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