Additional information for Blackboard Jungle, which has a domestic theatrical release set for March 19, 1955. The film is being distributed by MGM and has not yet been rated. Blackboard Jungle has a total running time of 101 minutes.
X
UK
12
Norway
PG
Australia
M/12
Portugal
18
Netherlands
13
Argentina
K-16
Finland
7
Spain
15
Sweden
Approved
USA
101min
Die Saat der Gewalt
Austria
Die Saat der Gewalt
West Germany
Graine de violence
Belgium
Graine de violence
France
Sementes de Violência
Brazil
Sementes de Violência
Portugal
Semilla de maldad
Argentina
Semilla de maldad
Spain
Älä käännä heille selkääsi
Finland
De kiem van het geweld
Belgium
Het zaad der gewelddadigheid
Netherlands
I zoungla tou mavropinakos
Greece
Il seme della violenza
Italy
Szkolna dzungla
Poland
Tábladzsungel
Hungary
The Blackboard Jungle
USA
Vänd dem inte ryggen!
Sweden
Vend dem ikke ryggen
Denmark
March 19, 1955
USA
March 25, 1955
USA
July 23, 1955
France
August 21, 1955
Japan
September 05, 1955
Sweden
October 28, 1955
West Germany
November 11, 1955
Austria
November 11, 1955
Belgium
November 18, 1955
Finland
November 21, 1955
Norway
November 29, 1955
Portugal
January 06, 1956
Italy
April 19, 1956
Hong Kong
October 07, 1957
Denmark
February 16, 1964
Spain
June 29, 1977
Portugal
November 29, 1981
Turkey
July 26, 1986
East Germany
The sensational novel...now on the screen!
A DRAMA OF TEEN-AGE Terror! (original print ad - almost all caps)
SHOCKING! (original print ad - all caps)
THE SCREAM IN THE SCHOOL ROOM! (original print ad - all caps)
A shock story of today's high school hoodlums!
I'm a teacher. My pupils are the kind you don't turn your back on, even in class!
The Most Startling Picture In Years!
This will be short - the same situations are occurring daily in our big city schools today. There are more of us than ever signing up to teach in our most poverty-stricken schools. Glen Ford (with his screen wife Anne Francis) portrays one of the earliest. Now, unfortunately, the classes are majority African-American rather than mixed, not mostly Caucasian as in "Blackboard Jungle."The movie is realistic - I am 66 and since viewing this movie the first time in 1955 have "seen it all" as they say. I am happy to report that there are not as many firearms nor knives as in the past, nor is there as much hatred in the eyes of minority students - whether Hispanic, African-American or any other so-called minority. Also, there is a huge influx of African-American men teaching in our schools who are definitely making a difference.It is sick today that so many adults forget that many of us forget that we were all "the minority" at one time or other - save the Native Americans who we so disgracefully displaced.This movie is based on an excellent and authentic novel by Evan Hunter._________________________________________Comments by Actor / Writer Roy C. PetersonThis is one of the best movies of the 1950s. It's black and white and lacks the California eye candy we find in another 1955 troubled youth film Rebel Without a Cause. I love both movies, but I love this one better because it leaves you with the knowledge that heroic idealism has intrinsic value just for it's own sake. The teacher Richard Dadier, brilliantly played by Glenn Ford, is a real all American good guy. A true inspirational role model for all people in daily life.The script and all around acting are superb. The scene where Vic Morrow as Artie West pulls a horn handle switchblade stiletto on the teacher and challenges him to come take the test paper away from him is one of the classic moments in American motion picture history. Where else would such a thing happen except America? A place with bad growing pains caused by rapid population influx and a postwar boom not necessarily experienced by all inner city residents. See this movie just for the sake of your faith in mankind.
Richard Brooks
Director(s)
Richard Brooks
Evan Hunter
Writer(s)
Pandro S. Berman
producer
Producer(s)
Scott Bradley
Charles Wolcott
Composer(s)
Richard Dadier
Glenn Ford
Anne Dadier
Anne Francis
Jim Murdock
Louis Calhern
Lois Judby Hammond
Margaret Hayes
Mr. Warneke
John Hoyt
Joshua Y. Edwards
Richard Kiley
Mr. Halloran
Emile Meyer
Dr. Bradley
Warner Anderson
Prof. A.R. Kraal
Basil Ruysdael
Gregory W. Miller
Sidney Poitier
Artie West
Vic Morrow
Belazi
Dan Terranova
Pete V. Morales
Rafael Campos
Emmanuel Stoker
Paul Mazursky
Detective
Horace McMahon
Santini (as Jameel Farah)
Jamie Farr
De Lica
Danny Dennis
Lou Savoldi (uncredited)
David Alpert
Bit Role (uncredited)
Jimmy Ames
Student (uncredited)
Dwayne Avery
Student (uncredited)
Ben Avila
Miss Brady (uncredited)
Henny Backus
Wilson (uncredited)
Doyle Baker
Student (uncredited)
Beau Buchanan
Bartender (uncredited)
Benny Burt
Irate Mother (uncredited)
Joan Danton
Latino Student (uncredited)
Valentin de Vargas
Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
Richard Deacon
Child (uncredited)
Gary Diamond
Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
James Drury
Student (uncredited)
Del Erickson
Daly (uncredited)
John Erman
George Katz (uncredited)
Robert Foulk
Electrician (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
Mr. Lefkowitz (uncredited)
Paul Hoffman
Needles - a Teenager (uncredited)
Teddy Infuhr
Frightened Student (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo
Mechanic (uncredited)
Ike Jones
Bit Role (uncredited)
Nikki Juston
Italian Restaurant Table Extra (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
Director(s)
Evan Hunter
Writer(s)
producer
Producer(s)
Charles Wolcott
Composer(s)
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