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  1. Blackboard Jungle. Rock Around the Clock. Written by James E. Myers and Max Freedman. Performed by Bill Haley and the Comets. Courtesy of Decca Records, Inc. Invention for Guitar and Trumpet. Written by Willis Holman (uncredited) Played by Stan Kenton and His Orchestra. Sal Salvador (guitar) (uncredited)

  2. 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.

  3. Mar 19, 2015 · Blackboard Jungle is available to rent on iTunes and Amazon, and it's well-worth watching as it celebrates its 60th birthday today. Its raucous reception didn't mark the birth of rock and roll, but when Blackboard Jungle hit theaters, the whole world started to rock—and it still hasn't stopped.

  4. 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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  5. Then, about a year later, in May of 1955, the song went to the top of the music charts after it was used as the opening music for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie, Blackboard Jungle, a story about a high school teacher’s confrontation with juvenile delinquents.

  6. Jul 28, 2021 · The genre occupied a frightful demeanour that scared the living daylights out of the masses, and the groundbreaking movie Blackboard Jungle played a pivotal part in the emergence of rock music to the mainstream.

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  8. Blackboard Jungle (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Champagne And Ravioli Dadier (Glenn Ford) greets his expectant wife Anne (Anne Francis) at an Italian restaurant, celebrating in the rough downtown school district where he's just been hired, in Richard Brooks' Blackboard Jungle, 1955.

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