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Blackboard Jungle | |
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| Written by: | Richard Brooks, based on the novel by Evan Hunter |
| Starring: | Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow |
| Directed by: | Richard Brooks |
| Photography by: | Russell Harlan |
| Art direction by: | Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell |
| Edited 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 (also known as The Blackboard Jungle) is a 1955 motion picture of social commentary that catalysed a genre of teacher dramas.
The film is very much in a, now established, genre in which an idealistic teacher is confronted with a class of cynical teenagers, disengaged by conventional schooling. As so often in later films, issues of race and class lie at the heart of the dynamics. Subsequent films that exploited the theme include: To Sir, with LoveTo Sir, with Love (external link) Written by: James Clavell from a novel by E. Braithwaite Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lulu, Michael Des Barres, Judy Geeson, Directed by: James Clavell Photography by: Paul Beeson Music by: Ron Grainer Distributed by: Columb (starring Poitier as a black teacher in a white school in 1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio), Stand and DeliverFor the song by Adam & the Ants see Stand and Deliver (song). Stand and Deliver ( 1988) is a film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated East Los Angeles, California high school mathematics teacher. In the film, he helped 18 Hispanic student ( 19881988 is a leap year starting on Friday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 2 Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 Australia celebrates its bicentennial day.), Lean on Me and Dead Poets SocietyDead Poets Society is a 1989 film which tells the story of a Whitman-quoting English teacher at a 1950s boys' school who inspires his students to overcome their reluctance to make changes in their lives. It stars Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan (both in 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra), and Dangerous Minds ( 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja).
The film has also credited with sparking the Rock and Roll revolution by featuring Bill Haley and the Comets's Rock Around the Clock, initially a B-side, over the film's opening credits, establishing that song as an instant classic.
The music led to a huge teenage audience for the film; their exuberance sometimes overflowed into violence and vandalism at screenings. In this sense, it has been seen as marking the start of a period of visible teenage rebellion in the late 20th century.
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