Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Brooks
Screenplay byRichard Brooks
Based onThe Blackboard Jungle
1954 novel
by Evan Hunter
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringGlenn Ford
Anne Francis
Louis Calhern
Margaret Hayes
CinematographyRussell Harlan
Edited byFerris Webster
Music byMax C. Freedman, Jimmy DeKnight (song "Rock Around the Clock") (uncredited), Willis Holman (song "Blackboard Jungle"), Jenny Lou Carson (song "Let Me Go, Lover!"; uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release dates
  • March 20, 1955 (1955-03-20) (New York)[1]
  • March 25, 1955 (1955-03-25) (US)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,168,000[2]
Box office$8,144,000[2]

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher 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. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high school teens, and for the unique breakout role of a black cast member, film icon Sidney Poitier, as a rebellious yet musically talented student.

In 2016, Blackboard Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3][4]

  1. ^ "Blackboard Jungle - Details". Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  4. ^ "With "20,000 Leagues," the National Film Registry Reaches 700". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-17.

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