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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.
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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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- Crime, Drama
- Richard Brooks
- 1955-03-25
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May 3, 2017 · Throwback Review: The Blackboard Jungle (1955) Screenshot from credits. This review is a little different because it’s going to touch on some personal history. Not only about a pretty good movie that had a good effect on growing up with mixed cultures but on how this site got its name.
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.
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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.
