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.
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Filming locations for Blackboard Jungle (1955) in Los Angeles.
Is Blackboard Jungle based on a true story?
Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inter-racial inner-city school, based on the novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks.
When did the movie Blackboard Jungle come out on DVD?
The film was released on DVD in North America on May 10, 2005 by Warner Home Video. In the 1967 film To Sir, with Love and its 1996 sequel, Sidney Poitier plays a teacher in a difficult school.
In 1955, Blackboard Jungle put rock ‘n roll (of Bill Haley and the Comets) on the screen — a concept that was revolutionary at the time.
Where can I find media related to Blackboard Jungle?
“Rock Around the Clock and Me” Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blackboard Jungle.
One way to consider this is despite the fact that “Rock Around the Clock” is the basis of the sound of Blackboard Jungle it wasn’t written for the film the way you might assume. The song had been bouncing around the country for nearly a year as a b-side to a track called “Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town).”.
How did Dadi-O get his name on the blackboard?
When the teacher, Mr Dadier (Glenn Ford), writes his name on the blackboard early in the film, one of the students throws a baseball and knocks a hole in the blackboard at the end of his name, Dadier becomes Dadi-O and the class erupts in laughter and calls him “Daddy-O”.