Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social drama directed by Richard Brooks and starring Glenn Ford as Richard Dadier and Anne Francis as Anne Dadier.

This movie is one of those movies you walk out of feeling like you got punched in the gut. It makes you wonder how people could be so cruel and horrible. But it also got its main point across in showing how horrid our educational system used to be and that it needed to be improved.

I have never seen a movie that impacted me this much as it made me realize that teachers deserve more respect then they are given and they also deserve much more for what they do.

A few of my favorite scenes are as follows (Note: one scene is very disturbing but I like it for a certain reason)

One of my favorite scenes is the scene starting when Margaret Hayes' character Ms Lois Hammond is fixing her stalking then you see Dadier walking down the hall you see her show and then he looks in the library and a student is trying to rape her. He breaks the door and for lack of a better term "beats the shit" out of the student while people are comforting Ms. Hammond. The reason I like this scene is that it shows Dadier in one of many moments in the film in a heroic view. Also shows that his character always does the right things, make a mental note of that.

My other favorite scenes are the last two in the movie. One being the fight scene in the class room (I won't give details) and then the promise scene between Glenn Ford's Richard Dadier and Sidney Portier's Gregory Miller talk about their pact and promise to continue through the end. with Miller walking off with Rock around the clock in the background.

Thanks to D for showing me this amazing movie! Whoever reads this should go out and find a copy to watch.