{"id":38510,"date":"2025-03-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38510"},"modified":"2025-03-07T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:24:43","slug":"blackboard-jungle-1955-starring-glenn-ford-anne-francis-vic-morrow-and-sidney-poitier-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38510","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blackboard Jungle&#8221; (1955) starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030825zview_blackboardjungle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Blackboard Jungle <\/i>(1955)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Richard Brooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Richard Brooks;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Foc7Ej\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE<\/a> by Evan Hunter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, John Hoyt, Richard Kiley, Emile Meyer, Warner Anderson, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Dan Terranova, Paul Mazursky, Horace McMahon, Richard Deacon, James Drury, Emil Sitka <\/strong>and <strong>Jamie Farr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Is The Most Startling Picture Of The Year!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Dadier (Ford) is a war vet and recent college graduate (thanks to the GI Bill).\u00a0 His wife is pregnant and Dadier needs a job.\u00a0 So Dadier accepts a position at North Manual Trades High School.\u00a0 North Manual is an inner city school for boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From day one, the students attempt to run Dadier off.\u00a0 But Dadier is not a quitter.\u00a0 Although most other faculty members allow the students to run wild, Dadier is determined to reach and teach his students.\u00a0 Dadier&#8217;s attempts to win over Greg Miller (Poitier) and Artie West (Morrow) are unsuccessful.\u00a0 As time goes on West&#8217;s leadership turns the students from mild defiance to insubordination and worse.<\/p>\n<p>Dadier is determined to teach his students, no matter the cost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Blackboard Jungle<\/em> was nominated for four 1956 <em>Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Nominee<\/em> for <em>Best Film Editing &#8211; <\/em><strong>Ferris Webster<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nominee<\/em>\u00a0for <em>Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White &#8211; <\/em><strong>Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Nominee<\/em> for <em>Best Cinematography, Black-and-White<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Russell Harlan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><i>Nominee <\/i>for <em>Best Writing, Screenplay<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Richard Brooks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Blackboard Jungle<\/em> features the film debuts of Vic Morrow, James Drury and Jamie Farr.<\/p>\n<p>Morrow was 26 and Poitier was 28 playing high school students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I liked <em>Blackboard Jungle<\/em>, but it didn&#8217;t resonate with me like the audiences in 1955 (and maybe most today).\u00a0 I thought it was good.\u00a0 Glenn Ford was an excellent choice to play Dadier.\u00a0 Anne Francis doesn&#8217;t have much to do other than look pretty and she fulfills that role.\u00a0 Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier look right despite being a decade too old in real life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The characters and story have all the expected arcs and plot points.\u00a0 The students don&#8217;t seem that scary of course in 1955, they could have seemed shocking.\u00a0 I liked the film but most folks seem to love it.\u00a0 Your mileage, as always, could vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Blackboard Jungle <\/i>(1955) <\/em><\/strong>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030825zview_blackboardjungle2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackboard Jungle (1955) Director: Richard Brooks Screenplay: Richard Brooks;\u00a0based on THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE by Evan Hunter Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38511,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38510\/revisions\/38511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}