Blackboard Jungle
by Richard Brooks
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Actor: Anne Francis, Glenn Ford, Louis Calhern, Sidney Poitier, Vic MorrowDirector: Richard Brooks
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 66903
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Glen Ford is riveting as a dedicated teacher whose idealism fades under the tensions that rip hisroom apart. Anne Francis and Sidney Poitier co-star. Year: 1955 Director: Richard Brooks Starring: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Maggie HayesRunning Time: 101 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 012569690325 UPC: 012569690325 Manufacturer No:&
Movie Reviews of Blackboard Jungle
Movie Review: "Jungle" vs. "Rebel"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Blackboard Jungle" vs. "Rebel Without A Cause". The two most provocative films of juvenile delinquency from the same year. Both have their own identity and attitude. Here's how they compare in the "Tale of the Tape(or DVD)":
Turf:
Jungle: Mean streets of New York.
Rebel: Squeaky-clean 'burbs of L.A.
Advantage: Jungle. Couldn't be grittier.
Targets of Hostility:
Jungle: Teachers
Rebel: Parents
Advantage: Jungle. It got funny when Kotter's Sweathogs did it.
Future Movie Icon:
Jungle: Sidney Poitier
Rebel: James Dean
Advantage: Dean. Too fast to live, too young to die.
Future Doomed Supporting Player(s):
Jungle: Vic Morrow
Rebel: Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Nick Adams
Advantage: Rebel. At least Natalie won an Oscar and married Robert Wagner.
Future Director:
Jungle: Paul Mazursky
Rebel: Dennis Hopper
Advantage: Hopper. "Easy Rider" was the 60s "Rebel Without a Cause"
Future Sitcom Support Player:
Jungle: Jamie Farr(Klinger)
Rebel: Jim Backus(Thurston Howell III)
Advantage: Farr. So that explains the dress!
Favorite Class Clowning:
Jungle: Mr. Dadier(Glenn Ford)'s kids calling him "Daddy-O"
Rebel: Jim Stark(James Dean)'s "moo" noise at the planetarium.
Advantage: Jungle. It inspired the Coasters' lyric, "Who calls the English teacher 'Daddy-O'? Charlie Brown..."
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Summary of Blackboard Jungle
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE - DVD MovieNovelist 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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