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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.
- Richard Brooks
- 118
- 3 min
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. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high ...
- $8,144,000
- Pandro S. Berman
- $1,168,000
Blackboard Jungle is a classic drama film that explores the challenges of teaching in a violent and unruly urban school. Glenn Ford stars as a World War II veteran who tries to reach out to his ...
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- Glenn Ford
- Richard Brooks
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer
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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.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Blackboard Jungle (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Manual Trades Smoking in the boys' room, first day at work for teacher Dadier (Glenn Ford), jousting with inner-city thugs Stoker (Paul Mazursky) and especially Miller (Sidney Poitier), in Richard Brooks' Blackboard Jungle, 1955.
- Richard Brooks, Joel Freeman, Buddy Messinger
- Glenn Ford
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. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure ...
The Blackboard JungleTen years after the end of World War II, writer-director Richard Brooks' film, The Blackboard Jungle (1955) was released. The film remains as a moody, entertaining potboiler and an early formula for treating a theme—the rehabilitating education of delinquents and the inner-city underprivileged—that was still being explored in the cinema of the 1980s and 1990s.
