Blackboard Jungle

When the hoods break Josh's record collection, one of the kids starts playing a record and we hear music.

During one part of the scene we see the phonograph arm playing the final groove of the record indicating that the record has finished playing, but we can still hear the music.

Set decoration includes cardboard alphabet running across top of blackboard - something rarely seen past a third grade classroom, let alone a high school.

In the climactic knife fight with Dadier and West, West slashes Dadier's hand with his knife.

Ultimately Dadier grab's West's shoulders and shakes him violently, his right hand bleeding profusely on West's left shoulder.

The next scene as West is being led off to the principal's his left shoulder appears clean.

Before Mr.

Dadier enters the principal's office, the top of a movie camera can be seen rolling behind a high window of the office.

When the parked car is turned over by the hoodlums driving-by, a securing cable is visible as the car flips.

In the garage scene, when Miller starts fixing the car, he says "nobody gives a hoot", but his lips indicates he really says "nobody gives a damn".

The replacement of the profanity is made humorous by the director, who chose to play the sound effect of a car horn when the word "hoot" is uttered.

As Professor Kraal escorts Dadier through the suburban school, the sound of students singing the national anthem is heard in the distance, louder in each succeeding scene, missing no verses.

Kraal and Dadier are eventually shown ending their tour in the school auditorium, where they've joined the students in singing the anthem's final verse.

However, in order for the two men to be present during the assembly while the students were still singing the anthem, the students would have to have sung the anthem over and over again for the entire time it took for the two men to tour the school.

When Dadier is talking to Miller in the auto shop, Miller is working on a car.

He is using a ratchet.

But instead of twisting the ratchet handle, he is holding it still and twisting the socket extension bar with his hands.

In the maternity hospital there is a sign reading "DOCTOR'S LOCKER ROOM" with the apostrophe after the R.

This would mean that there is only one doctor.

It should read "DOCTORS' LOCKER ROOM" where the apostrophe after the S indicates more than one doctor.

As Mr.

Dadier is talking to the detective about his attackers,a few of the students are seen entering the classroom twice.

In the record smashing scene, as the students exit the classroom, Santini(Jamie Farr) is shown walking down the hallway, but in the next shot he is still in the classroom,giving Mr.

Edwards his glasses.

As the detectives are talking to Mr.

Dadier outside his classroom, a few of the students are shown entering the classroom twice.

In the record smashing scene,as the students leave the classroom, Santini walks down the hallway, but in the next shot is handing Mr.

Edwards his glasses.

1955, the year that Nicolas Ray showed America the alienated teenagers and consequences with Rebel Without a Cause, quite similarly to this film. Yet, Rebel without a cause approaches the subject through the eyes of the teenagers, Blackboard Jungle talks about the problem as experienced by the adults, immediately making it much more patronising and judgmental.

Brilliant start to finish! I'm a teacher and see some of the same problems, today.

Idealistic serviceman with a Shakespearian background Glenn Ford (as Richard Dadier) gets a job as English teacher to juvenile delinquents in New York City. The crazy kids almost kill Mr.

From the Thirties through the Fifties, it was usually Warner Brothers who brought the themes of drugs, poverty, crime and juvenile delinquency to the big screen. However it was MGM that took the first real hard look at troubled inner city schools with "Blackboard Jungle", breaking with it's tradition of deep dramas and frothy musicals.

This was better than I thought it would be. I'd always heard that it had Sidney Poitier in an early role(though he was about 30(!

It's no classic in my opinion- it was merely earth-shattering when it was released, which gave it some kind of credence. I hated this crap, I hated the teachers and parents with the same, tired "I just don't understand teenagers today..

Culture evolving thru the industrial age into information age where essential roles are destined for mass confusion in the least. Industry heads hoping for the best with their h.

Richard Brooks directed this drama that stars Glenn Ford as Richard Dadier, a new English teacher at North Manual High for unruly boys that is determined to succeed at his new job, which he takes quite seriously, despite the cynical principal(played by Louis Calhern) who has little hope of his success. Richard Kiley plays another new teacher whose efforts to educate the boys with his jazz records ends disastrously.

For all the classics that came out the 50's, no movie moment stuck in my mind as obsessively as the first three minutes of "Blackboard Jungle".A disclaimer crawls on the screen, stating the film's reason to be: a warning on the rise of juvenile delinquency, troubling the lethargy of an American society resting on its economical laurels.