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What is Blackboard Jungle about?

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When did the movie Blackboard Jungle come out on DVD?

Blackboard Jungle: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes. A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

How did Dadi-O get his name on the blackboard?

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Jack Lemmon, Jo Van Fleet and Ernest Borgnine. Supporting Actor winner for Mister Roberts, Supporting Actress winner for East of Eden, and Best Actor winner for Marty. Helen Keller in Her Story. Helen Keller, posing with the Documentary Feature award. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Claudette Colbert.

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What is the movie Blackboard Jungle about?

Box office. $8,144,000. Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social drama film about teachers in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, ...

Who is Richard Dadier?

In the mid-1950s, Richard Dadier is a new teacher at North Manual Trades High School, an inner-city school of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Led by student Gregory Miller, most engage in anti-social behavior.

Storyline

War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne.

Did you know

The original novel was based on author Evan Hunter 's own experiences as a teacher in New York City's tough South Bronx area. Hunter (who found fame as crime writer Ed McBain) said, "I thought I was going to give these kids who want to be motor mechanics Shakespeare and they were going to appreciate it and they weren't buying it.

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Overview

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about teachers in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and rollin its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high school teens, and for the unique breakout role of a black …

Factual background

Hunter's novel was based on his early job as a teacher at Bronx Vocational High School, now known as Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the South Bronx. Hunter, then known as Salvatore Lombino, took the teaching job in 1950 after graduating from Hunter College. He was quickly disillusioned and quit in frustration after two months.

Plot

In the mid-1950s, Richard Dadier is a new teacher at North Manual Trades High School, an inner-city school of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Led by student Gregory Miller, most engage in anti-social behavior. The school principal, Mr. Warneke, denies there are discipline issues, but the school faculty, particularly Mr. Murdock, warn Dadier otherwise. Dadier befriends two other new teachers, Joshua Edwards and Lois Hammond.

Cast

• Glenn Ford as Richard Dadier
• Sidney Poitier as Gregory Miller
• Vic Morrow as Artie West
• Anne Francis as Anne Dadier

Critical reception

"As a straight melodrama of juvenile violence this is a vivid and hair-raising film", wrote Bosley Crowther of The New York Times in a positive review. "Except for some incidental romance, involving the teacher and his wife and a little business about the latter having a baby, it is as hard and penetrating as a nail." Variety called it "a film with a melodramatic impact that hits hard at a contemporary problem. The casting, too, is exceptionally good". Harrison's Reportscalled the fil…

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $5,292,000 in the US and Canada and $2,852,000 elsewhere.

Awards and honors

In 2010, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) listed the soundtrack of the movie on its list of the Top 15 Most Influential Movie Soundtracks of all time. TCM described the impact and the influence of the movie:
MGM brought Hollywood into the rock'n'roll era with BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. In search of the kind of music teens like the film's potential delinquents were listening to, director Richard Brooks borr…

Cultural impact

The film marked the rock and roll revolution by featuring Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock", initially a B-side, over the film's opening credits (with a lengthy drum solo introduction, unlike the originally released single), as well as in the first scene, in an instrumental version in the middle of the film, and at the close of the movie, establishing that song as an instant hit. The record had been released the previous year, gaining only limited sales. But, popularized by its us…

Best Motion Picture

  • Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Buddy Adler Marty – Harold Hecht Mister Roberts – Leland Hayward Picnic – Fred Kohlmar The Rose Tattoo– Hal B. Wallis
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Directing

  • Bad Day at Black Rock – John Sturges East of Eden – Elia Kazan Marty – Delbert Mann Picnic – Joshua Logan Summertime– David Lean
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Actor

  • Ernest Borgnine – Marty James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me James Dean – East of Eden Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock
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Actress

  • Susan Hayward – I’ll Cry Tomorrow Katharine Hepburn – Summertime Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody
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Actor in A Supporting Role

  • Arthur Kennedy – Trial Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts Joe Mantell – Marty Sal Mineo – Rebel without a Cause Arthur O’Connell – Picnic
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Actress in A Supporting Role

  • Betsy Blair – Marty Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly’s Blues Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden Natalie Wood – Rebel without a Cause
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Writing

  • Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs The Private War of Major Benson – Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher Rebel without a Cause – Nicholas Ray The Sheep Has Five Legs – Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin Strategic Air Command– Beirne Lay, Jr.
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Music

  • “I’ll Never Stop Loving You” – Love Me or Leave Me – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Love Is A Many-Spendored Thing” – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “Something’s Gotta Give” – Daddy Long Legs – Music, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “(Love Is) The Tender Trap” – The Tender Trap – Music by Jame…
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Film Editing

  • Blackboard Jungle – Ferris Webster The Bridges at Toko-Ri – Alma Macrorie Oklahoma! – Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler Picnic – Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon The Rose Tattoo– Warren Low
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Cinematography

  • Blackboard Jungle – Russell Harlan I’ll Cry Tomorrow – Arthur E. Arling Marty – Joseph LaShelle Queen Bee – Charles Lang The Rose Tattoo– James Wong Howe
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