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Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks.
Blackboard Jungle: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes. A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
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Blackboard Jungle, American social-commentary film, released in 1955, that highlighted violence in urban schools and also helped spark the rock-and-roll revolution by featuring the hit song “Rock Around the Clock” (1954) by Bill Haley and His Comets. It was the first major film to feature rock.
A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty. War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school.
In Blackboard Jungle, Glenn Ford plays a teacher assigned to a tough inner-city school where the students make the rules and the staff meekly follows along out of fear and apathy. Ford's task is to identify the real leaders and troublemakers in his classroom and try to win them over to his side.
World War II veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) takes a teaching position at a rough New York City school for boys. The staff warns him that the students are nearly impossible to control, but the...
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Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils.
Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks.
Blackboard Jungle. Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier star in a gritty urban drama about a high school teacher who will not allow himself to be defeated by his tough inner city students ... even when he is assaulted and his pregnant wife is threatened. Classics 1955 1 hr 41 min. 74%.