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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 music on its sound track.
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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
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.
- Lee Pfeiffer
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.
Adapted from a 1954 novel by Evan Hunter, Brooks' film tells the story of Richard Dadier (Ford), a war veteran facing his first teaching assignment at a tough inner-city high school in an unspeci-fied northern city. "This is the garbage can of the educational system," a veteran teacher tells Dadier.
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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- Drama
