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Chalkboard Jungle
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[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047885/ IMDB Page] (external hyperlink)
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| Written by: |
Richard Brooks, based on a novel by Evan Hunter |
| Starring: |
Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Jamie Farr |
| Directed by: |
Richard Brooks |
| Photography by: |
Russell Harlan |
| Art counsel by: |
Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell |
| Emended by: |
Ferris Webster |
| Music by: |
Bill Haley and the Comets |
| Distributed by: |
MGM |
| Release Date: |
1955 |
| Awards: |
1955 Academy Award Nominations, Best Adapted Screenplay; Best Cimematography; Best Art Direction; and Film Editing |
Blackboard Jungle (as well referred to as A Blackboard Jungle) occurs as 1955 motion picture of social commentary that catalysed a genre of teacher dramas.
Cultural impact
the film is the lot within a, nowadays constituted, genre where an ideal teacher is confronted sustaining a class of misanthropical adolescent, disengaged by conventional schooling. When & so typically around late films, issues of race and class lie at a heart of the kinetics. Subsequent films that exploited a theme include: To Sir, with Love (starring Poitier as the black teacher witharound a whiten school in 1967), Stand and Deliver (1988), Lean on Me and Dead Poets Society (both within 1989), and Dangerous Minds (1995).
A film has likewise credited by having sparking a Rock and Roll revolution by featuring Bill Haley and the Comets's Rock Around the Clock, initially the B-side, over a film's opening credits, establishing that song as an instant classic.
the music led to a brobdingnagian adolescent audience for the film; their exuberance occasionally overflowed into violence & malicious mischief at screenings. In that feel, it hwhen been seen as marking the begin of a period of seeable teenaged rebellion in the late 20th century.
Withwithin March 2005, the Fiftieth day of remembrance of a release of the film, & the subsequent rise in popularity of Rock & Roll, was marked by a series of "Rock is Fifty" celebrations around New York City and Los Angeles, involving the living members of the original Bill Haley & His Comets. A film itself manufactured its Northerly U.s. DVD debut in Might 10, 2005.
To this day several teachers & students related to the charcters in the story.
Plot summary
Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) is a teacher at an inner-city school in which a anti-social behaviour of the pupils, led by Artie West (Vic Morrow) holds sway. Dadier challenges each staff & pupils however a conflict resolutions within anon. threats against his personal. Dadier suspects a melanize pupil Gregory Miller (Poitier), & issues of biwhen come explored as a plot is resolved.
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