
Blackboard Jungle
A tense, earnest classroom drama that simmers with social friction and feels like a gritty slice of 1950s youth rebellion.
- Directed by
- Richard Brooks
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern
- Tagline
- They turned a school into a jungle!
- Overview
- Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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- Directed by
- Richard Brooks
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern












