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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.
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.
The loose first-day assembly at North Manual High School, new teacher Dadier (Glenn Ford) observing as Halloran (Emile Meyer) and Miss Hammond (Margaret Hayes) try to manage students, in Richard Brooks' , 1955. Vic Morrow, who plays juvenile delinquent Artie West, introduces the trailer for (1955).
World War II veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) takes a teaching position at a rough New York City school for boys.
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 social commentary film about teachers in an inter-racial inner-city school, based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks.
