Blackboard Jungle
They turned a school into a jungle!
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Timing:
1:41 (101 min)
6.889/10
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Production
Genre
Crime, Drama
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Director
Actors
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, John Hoyt, Richard Kiley, Emile Meyer, Warner Anderson, Basil Ruysdael, Sidney Poitier
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
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Short description
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. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The eponymous short story of 1955 by Evan Hunter (1926-2005), which served as the literary source, told of his own teaching experience in the South Bronx district of New York. Over time, Evans (born Salvatore Albert Lombino) adopted the literary pseudonym Ed McBain, under which he gained fame as a detective novelist.
- According to Paul McCartney, when he was 15 and George Harrison (1943-2001) was 14, they really wanted to see this movie because they had heard that it featured the song "Rock Around The Clock" by "Bill Haley and the Comets" (1952-1981). However, viewers under 16 were not allowed into the film. Harrison looked so young that McCartney took some dirt and smeared it on his upper lip, believing that it would look like Harrison already had a mustache and thus appear older. Surprisingly, the trick worked, they were allowed into the hall, but McCartney and Harrison were very disappointed with the film, as it turned out to be nothing like what they expected.
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