Blackboard Jungle Movie Review
Blackboard Jungle Review
"Blackboard Jungle" Overview
Rating: NR
1955
Cast and Crew
Director : Richard BrooksProducer : Pandro S. Berman
Screenwiter : Richard Brooks
Starring : Glenn Ford,Anne Francis,Louis Calhern,Margaret Hayes,John Hoyt,Richard Kiley,Emile Meyer,Warner Anderson,Basil Ruysdael,Sidney Poitier,Vic Morrow
Idealism in the public school system got its start here in 1955's Blackboard Jungle, based on the book that convinced America that our kids were not all angels and schools were not built from picket fence perfection. Today, Blackboard Jungle is surprisingly dated and ineffective, as its picture of high school violence and perversity seems quaint in comparison to Columbine-style massacres and Mary Kay Letourneau. Even the firey Sidney Poitier an Vic Morrow, playing the school's punks, seem set to a lower level than we've seen from them in later, mor compelling works.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
