This is an original classic picture dealing with a teacher fighting troubled students and violent confrontation in the classroom titled ¨Blackboard jungle¨ written by Evan Hunter and displays a very good cast such as with Glenn Ford , Anne Francis , Louis Calhern , Sidney Poitier , Vic Morrow , Paul Mazurski , among others . Being very worthy in its intention and including faith in American youth . It begins with the following sentences : ¨Today we are concerned with juvenile delinquency , its causes and its effects . We are especially concerned when this delinquency boils over into our schools , the scenes and incidents depicted here are fictional . However , we believe that public awareness a first step toward a remedy for any problem and with this faith that ¨Blackboard jungle¨ was produced . It is a violent and strong movie by its time about a bunch of cruel teens who terrorize the entire school and a new English teacher at an inner-city school is determined to do his job , despite resistance from both students and faculty . Tough as well as thoughtful entertainment , set in the fifties , and dealing with Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) , a man happily married to a pregnant wife called Anne (Anne Francis). He is a new English teacher who has his own ideas of discipline . He goes to work at an inner city as well as violent, unruly high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before , as he must face off a motley crew of adolescents in the classroom . Ring leader is a student psychopath (Vic Morrow) , a baddie who doesn't seem human , he leads his groupies on a reign of terror through the high school halls . There takes place some violent events and a police inspector starts investigating with no results . The ominous group carries out threats , robbing , then the English teacher pulls off his owns objectives , leading to an ever higher tension . As a high school teacher determines to enforce law and order by using all kind of means .
Well-remembered violent school drama from the 50s in which teenager gangs terrorize the entire high school and surroundings executing crimes and violence at random . Interesting script , screen-written by the Principal of a teacher's harrowing experiences in N.Y. school system . This entertaining as well as thought-provoking film contains thrills , intense drama , upsetting scenes , and with quite convincing , studious atmosphere . In fact , due to the film violent content had great notoriety and important impression as well as some problems with censorship . This was the first movie to feature Rock music , as ¨Bill Haley's ¨Rock around the clock¨ , being played on the opening credits . Highlights of the movie include baddie knife-wielding Vic Morrow taking on Glenn Ford in some breathtaking scenes . Nice acting by Glenn Ford as an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to dominate his unruly students . Memorable support cast , full of veteran actors such as Margaret Hayes , Richard Kiley , Louis Calhern , Emile Meyer , Richard Deacon , John Hoyt and newcomers such as Sidney Poitier , Rafael Campos , Paul Mazursky , many of them in brief roles , and look for Virginian's James Drury and Jamie Farr billed as Jameel Farah . Special mention to Vic Morrow playing as one of the worst villains of the cinema history . Evocative cinematography in Black and White by Russell Harlan , though is also shown in horrible computer-colored version . The picture was well directed by Richard Brooks and achieved great success . Rating : Above average for its thrilling premise as well as hard-hitting entertainment and had the youthful ripping up the seats on its first release .
It was followed by ¨Class 1984¨ with Marl L. Lester with Perry King , Michael J Fox , Timothy Van Patten , this is a bloody and gory remake update ; continued by ¨Class of 1999¨ by Mark Lester with Malcolm McDowell , Bradley Gregg , Tracy Lind , Stacy Keach , Pam Grier , Patrick Kilpatrick ; and another sequel titled ¨Class of 1992¨ by Spiro Razatos with Sasha Mitchell , Nick Cassavetes ,and Richard Hill .
Well-remembered violent school drama from the 50s in which teenager gangs terrorize the entire high school and surroundings executing crimes and violence at random . Interesting script , screen-written by the Principal of a teacher's harrowing experiences in N.Y. school system . This entertaining as well as thought-provoking film contains thrills , intense drama , upsetting scenes , and with quite convincing , studious atmosphere . In fact , due to the film violent content had great notoriety and important impression as well as some problems with censorship . This was the first movie to feature Rock music , as ¨Bill Haley's ¨Rock around the clock¨ , being played on the opening credits . Highlights of the movie include baddie knife-wielding Vic Morrow taking on Glenn Ford in some breathtaking scenes . Nice acting by Glenn Ford as an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to dominate his unruly students . Memorable support cast , full of veteran actors such as Margaret Hayes , Richard Kiley , Louis Calhern , Emile Meyer , Richard Deacon , John Hoyt and newcomers such as Sidney Poitier , Rafael Campos , Paul Mazursky , many of them in brief roles , and look for Virginian's James Drury and Jamie Farr billed as Jameel Farah . Special mention to Vic Morrow playing as one of the worst villains of the cinema history . Evocative cinematography in Black and White by Russell Harlan , though is also shown in horrible computer-colored version . The picture was well directed by Richard Brooks and achieved great success . Rating : Above average for its thrilling premise as well as hard-hitting entertainment and had the youthful ripping up the seats on its first release .
It was followed by ¨Class 1984¨ with Marl L. Lester with Perry King , Michael J Fox , Timothy Van Patten , this is a bloody and gory remake update ; continued by ¨Class of 1999¨ by Mark Lester with Malcolm McDowell , Bradley Gregg , Tracy Lind , Stacy Keach , Pam Grier , Patrick Kilpatrick ; and another sequel titled ¨Class of 1992¨ by Spiro Razatos with Sasha Mitchell , Nick Cassavetes ,and Richard Hill .