- Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, John Hoyt
- Directors: Richard Brooks
- Writers: Richard Brooks, Evan Hunter
- Producers: Pandro S. Berman
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: MGM (Warner)
- VHS Release Date: Nov 12 1996
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6304196873
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #9,228 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Novelist Evan Hunter burst America's postwar bubble when he described an inner-city school terrorized by switchblade-wielding juvenile delinquents. Director-screenwriter Richard Brooks's 1955 adaptation of Blackboard Jungle still packs a tremendous wallop (even if it was shot mostly on the back lot). A forerunner of Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, this black-and-white classic--set to Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock"--is part exposé, part melodrama, part public-service announcement. "It is the frankest, the toughest, the most realistic film since On the Waterfront," ballyhooed MGM at the time.
Glenn Ford, at his slow-to-rile best, plays Richard Dadier, an incoming English teacher at North Manual High School. An idealist who knows how to handle himself in a dark alley, Dadier stands his ground and earns the begrudging respect of school thugs led by Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier. Anne Francis plays Ford's especially vulnerable wife; Richard Kiley (later in Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar) is the timid math teacher with the priceless jazz-record collection; Louis Calhern and John Hoyt are among the more cynical North Manual High veterans. See if you can ID Jamie Farr and director Paul Mazursky as gang members. The film was nominated for four Oscars. --Glenn Lovell
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Blackboard Jungle!,
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This review is from: Blackboard Jungle, the (DVD)
This is a classic. If you like performance with a message from an era of cliche this is the movie for you! It's a time when men were men, women loved them or were tarts, bad boys had the world against them yet good choices could take them in the right direction. This was a time when the bad boys who stayed bad got caught and punished. This movie is based on a real school in New York City that my uncle went to -- He turned out just fine!!Enjoy
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Rock and Roll Era Begins,
This review is from: Blackboard Jungle, the (VHS Tape)
I saw this movie in 1955. It was one of the best in that age in the genre about alienated youth, dealing as it did with ghetto kids and minorities rather than the spoiled brats of "Rebel Without a Cause." Most of all, the movie introduced me and a million other kids to Rock and Roll. I remember listening spellbound to "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets at the end of the movie. Something, I perceived in my little noodle brain, had changed -- and nothing would ever be the same again.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Always Good to See Poitier in Fine Form,
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This review is from: Blackboard Jungle, the (VHS Tape)
Early Poitier flick. He's actually not in very much of it. Elements of what made him the greatest black actor ever are already evident. The movie itself is merely ok. On those crazy kids. Rebel Without a Cause, released the same year, is a far superior movie on the same exact subject. So, James Dean fans watch that one and Poitier fans watch this one.
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