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- Commentary by Co-Stars Paul Mazursky and Jamie Farr, Glenn Ford's Son Peter Ford and Assistant Director Joel Freeman
- Droopy Cartoon Blackboard Jumble
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English and French
- Subtitles in English, French and Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 10, 2005
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern & Margaret Hayes | |
Performer: | Richard Kiley, Emile Meyer, Warner Anderson, Rafael Campos, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, John Hoyt & Basil Ruysdael | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Music by | Bill Haley & His Comets | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
Composition by | Charles Wolcott | |
Story by | Evan Hunter | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Harlan |
Entertainment Reviews:
The studied pseudo-documentary atmosphere never quite convinces.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
Still hard hitting teacher-in-ghetto tale.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
More important, however, than the letter of the film is the spirit. It seizes a burning issue, and lets the sparks fall where they may.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This searing if somewhat overrated condemnation of juvenile delinquency brought attention to some of the problems afflicting urban high schools.
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TV Guide
Glenn Ford, Morrow and Poitier are so real in their performances under the probing direction by Brooks that the picture alternatingly has the viewer pleading, indignant and frightened before the conclusion.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Richard Brooks's film rams home its message without much subtlety. It has a footnote in history, though, for introducing rock music to mainstream cinema, courtesy of Bill Haley's Rock around the Clock.
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Radio Times
The Blackboard Jungle is a sentimental melodrama masquerading as a social document, which in its own way is as dangerous a little gadget as a zip gun.
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The Nation
Description by OLDIES.com:
Richard Dadier is a man eager to make a difference. Or, some might say, he's a believer in lost causes. Dadier is a new teacher at inner-city North Manual High. Racial and sexual tensions. Violence. Gangs. Apathy. What Blackboard Jungle tackled 50 years ago are still hot-button issues in schools. Glenn Ford as Dadier clings to his ideals and pays a price vying with teen misfits led by Vic Morrow and, in a star-making performance, a too-cool-to-cope Sidney Poitier. Directed by Richard Brooks, Blackboard Jungle is brisk, urgent and powerful. And it starts with the influential "Rock Around The Clock", said to be the first use of rock 'n' roll in a mainstream movie. Think it'll catch on?
Product Description:
This provocative portrait of juvenile delinqency in a 1950s inner-city high school was based on the best-selling novel by Evan Hunter. Groundbreaking in its gritty realism and its use of rock & roll on the soundtrack, BLACKBOARD JUNGLE paved the way for such realistic and tough adolescent pictures as WEST SIDE STORY and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. The atmospheric tale of a teacher's harrowing experience in the New York City school system stars Glenn Ford as Richard Dadier, an idealistic teacher assigned to a new school located in one of the poorest and ethnically diverse city neighborhoods. Dadier's idealism fades as he struggles to make a difference to his indifferent students. Darkly ominous cinematography highlights the street world of the desperate delinquents as they carouse, smoke, and steal after school. The film features smoldering performances by a young Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow as tough-as-nails rebels fighting over the role of leader in Dadier's classroom. This innovative and ultimately uplifting portrayal of a generation at odds with the world served as a seminal portrait of the darker side of the 1950s; however, it was laced with controversy as well, as it was withdrawn from the 1955 Venice Film Festival for showing an unflattering view of American high school life.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Glen Ford is riveting as a dedicated teacher whose idealism fades under the tensions that rip his classroom apart. Anne Francis and Sidney Poitier co-star.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 118,374
- UPC: 012569690325
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