Kid Monk Baroni

Kid Monk Baroni
Directed byHarold D. Schuster
Written by
  • Aben Kandel (original screenplay)
  • Dick Conway (additional dialogue)
Produced byJack Broder (producer)
Herman Cohen (associate producer)
StarringSee below
CinematographyCharles Van Enger
Edited byJason H. Bernie
Music byHerschel Burke Gilbert
Production
company
Jack Broder Productions Inc.
Distributed byRealart Pictures
Release date
  • May 1, 1952 (1952-05-01)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Kid Monk Baroni is a 1952 American film noir sport film directed by Harold D. Schuster. It is also known as Young Paul Baroni in the United Kingdom. It features Leonard Nimoy, later in Star Trek as Spock, in his first lead role in a motion picture, as well as future Jimmy Olsen Jack Larson of television's original Adventures of Superman series.

This film was the first in producer Jack Broder's series of "The Billy Goat Gang" - the movie's opening titles are The Billy Goat Gang in Kid Monk Baroni - similar to other gang films series like The Bowery Boys and its antecedents. However, no further films were made.