Blackboard Jungle
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Movie Reviews of Blackboard Jungle
Movie Review: SHOCKING Film for 1955 Remains Taut to this Day
Summary: 5 Stars
Said to provoke violence, this film about 1955's brutal and vicious NYC school system remains taut and effective to this day. The direction by Richard Brooks is groundbreaking. Based on Evan Hunter's novel, Brooks tackles the idea of contempt for authority within the school system as a problem with a distinct solution. That solution comes in the form of an idealistic new teacher played with effective restraint by Glenn Ford. Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow portray the two major protagonists from the class of intimidating and delinquent juveniles. Sidney Poitier is the one weak link that Ford realizes he can reach. Poitier is antagonistic and disturbingly introverted but not truly dangerous. Vic Morrow is malicious and a real threat. Vic Morrow's performance is intense, riveting and absolutely convincing. Vic Morrow's talent as one of our finest actors seems long forgotten and certainly has gone unrecognized for too long now. His performance here is testament to that and adds to the shock value of this film. The very effective acting is convincing setting a benchmark for this genre on society's problems in urban education. In all, that is the point of this film. It is all about the strong and the weak be they teacher or student trying to survive in this setting.
Movie Review: Down with authority
Summary: 5 Stars
It opens with Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" and we know we're in for something dangerous, even nasty. Glenn Ford plays a novice English teacher in a ghetto trade high school, and most of the kids he runs up against are one step from the jailhouse. They are a nasty bunch - they beat him up, torment his wife, and almost send him packing, but he sticks it out and wins them over.
Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow are standouts as the hoods, and in the most harrowing scene (for me), they smash another teacher's prized jazz record collection. It's a no-holds barred look at an inner-city school (circa 1955), and it doesn't succumb to the typical (for movies like this) "saved in the nick of time" conclusion. The movie is honest and unsentimental. Worth a watch.
Movie Review: I was in this movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was an extra in this movie while a student at USC. (MGM studios). I got to have lunch in the studio commissary with various stars. It was a fantastic experience. This was the beginning of Rock and Roll. First time ever used as part of a movie sound track. "ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK TONIGHT" with Bill Haley and the comets. The film is considered a classic and created a great stir when it came out. Nothing like it had ever been done before. I saw it with a date in Pasadena, California when it came out. People were dancing in the aisles and Yelling and clapping when it was over. In some cities there were riots..Movie Review: Glenn Ford, underrated and always good.
Summary: 5 Stars
What presence and strength Glenn Ford had. I never knew. It's always great to 'discover' a film actor you like and then seek out his movies. He's terrific in this, as he was in 'Plunder In The Sun' and 'Gilda'. Despite the film's mixed reviews, I thought he was fantastic in 'Pocketful of Miracles'...
Just happy that, via Turner Classic Movies, i found out how GOOD he was!
Enjoy owning this film, though I don't have much to add to the previous commentaries left by reviewers here on Amazon who have written very well of the merits of this movie.
Movie Review: "DO YOU LIKE SWING"? A CLASSIC....... OH DADDY O!
Summary: 5 Stars
Blackboard Jungle is an interesting film that features Glen Ford and some young new talent that would find bigger fame in later years. Sidney Poitier,Vic Marrow and Jamie Farr(Jameel Farrah then) all play teens in this tale of juvenile delinquents in a lower class school that Ford comes to teach in. Still holds up well considering it's age. Poitier would later do "To Sir With Love" and switch roles by playing the teacher. This film is basically a remake of that film, but not exactly. The DVD transfer looks very good and there are a few extras.