Blackboard Jungle (The Blackboard Jungle) (1955)

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"Richard Dadier is a new teacher at North Manual Trades High School, an inner-city school of diverse ethnic backgrounds where many of the pupils, led by student Gregory Miller, 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 other schemes to unsettle him. This hard hitting movie has lost none of it's edge over the years. It's a depressin"

Blackboard Jungle

“Nothing ages quite as quick as a mainstream Hollywood film about hot button social issues. Look no further than Blackboard Jungle, which reimagines an inner-city high school as a war zone of rapist students, gang violence, and a Molotov cocktail waiting to be thrown. Brute Force: Junior Edition, essentially.   These overly pious lecterns desperately try to underscore the sincerity and rational of outdated social mores by cranking the problems in question to absurdist levels. As though the obsolete generation wanted to take the younger to task by imagining an entire Eisenhower generation as murderous, drug addicted thugs and wondering where it all went wrong while absolving themselves of the culpability in the creation of these problems. Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme.   Gl” read more

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" Blackboard Jungle is the original "crusading teacher against cynical and usually violent students" film. It reflected a new era in the fifties when kids were becoming more independent and less likely to honor their parents, which scared the hell out of the Depression generation. It's no less relevant today; in fact, one could call this film prescient, tapping into a zeitgesit of teenager fear that's only gotten worse in the fifty-plus years since it was made. "