The Monitors (film)
The Monitors is a 1969 U.S. satirical science fiction film. Shot in Chicago, it was the first film production of the citys Second City comedy troupe and was coproduced and financed by the Bell and Howell filmequipment 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.
A conflict with the Monitors, inspired by the outrageous antics of a street preacher Larry Storch, leads to the flight of movie actress Barbara Susan Oliver, who is a somewhat reluctant collaborator with the Monitors, along with freelance pilot Harry Guy Stockwell and Harrys brother Max Avery Schreiber, and their spiriting away by the preacher, who turns out to be a leader of S.C.R.A.G., or Secret Counter Retalitorial Group, an antiMonitor resistance group. After a series of vicissitudes, with Harry among the Monitors and Barbara and Max among the S.C.R.A.G. forces, the principals are reunited and, minus Barbara, fly off to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to foil a S.C.R.A.G. plot to bomb Monitor headquarters.The Monitors, who have been aware of all these events, have decided that human beings are not worthy of their leadership, and they depart. Humanity is free to return to its violent and corrupt ways. ........
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