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Blackboard Jungle ()

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A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
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Richard Dadier
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Anne Dadier
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Jim Murdock
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Lois Judby Hammond
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Mr. Warneke
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Joshua Y. Edwards
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Mr. Halloran
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Dr. Bradley
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Prof. A.R. Kraal
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Gregory W. Miller
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Artie West
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Belazi
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Pete V. Morales
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Emmanuel Stoker
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Detective
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Santini (as Jameel Farah)
Danny Dennis ...
De Lica
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Alpert ...
Lou Savoldi (uncredited)
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Bit Role (uncredited)
Dwayne Avery ...
Student (uncredited)
Ben Avila ...
Student (uncredited)
Henny Backus ...
Miss Brady (uncredited)
Doyle Baker ...
Wilson (uncredited)
Beau Buchanan ...
Student (uncredited)
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Bartender (uncredited)
Joan Danton ...
Irate Mother (uncredited)
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Latino Student (uncredited)
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Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
Gary Diamond ...
Child (uncredited)
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Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
Del Erickson ...
Student (uncredited)
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Daly (uncredited)
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George Katz (uncredited)
Jack Gargan ...
Electrician (uncredited)
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Applicant (uncredited)
Paul Hoffman ...
Mr. Lefkowitz (uncredited)
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Needles - a Teenager (uncredited)
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Frightened Student (uncredited)
Ike Jones ...
Mechanic (uncredited)
Nikki Juston ...
Bit Role (uncredited)
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Italian Restaurant Table Extra (uncredited)
Carl Kress ...
Peewee (uncredited)
Mickey Little ...
Boy on Bus (uncredited)
Tom McKee ...
Manners (uncredited)
Jerry Mickelsen ...
Krauss (uncredited)
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Joe Murray, Attacker of Miss Hammond (uncredited)
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Frank Adams (uncredited)
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Miss Panucci (uncredited)
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Italian Restaurant Proprietor (uncredited)
Virginia Pherrin ...
Teacher in Lounge (uncredited)
Gerald Phillips ...
Carter (uncredited)
Chris Randall ...
Levy (uncredited)
William Rhinehart ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
Steven Roberts ...
Boy on Bus (uncredited)
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Radio Announcer (uncredited) (voice)
B.W. Sandefur ...
Student (uncredited)
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Father (uncredited)
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Student (uncredited)
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Kid (uncredited)
Steve Stevens ...
Boy on Bus (uncredited)
Yoshihiro Tomita ...
Tomita (uncredited)
Skip Torgerson ...
Boy on Bus (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey ...
Bystander at Accident Scene (uncredited)
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Mrs. Brophy (uncredited)
Jerry Wynne ...
Murphy (uncredited)

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Richard Brooks

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Richard Brooks ... (screenplay)
 
Evan Hunter ... (novel "The Blackboard Jungle")

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Pandro S. Berman ... producer

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Charles Wolcott ... (uncredited)

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Russell Harlan ... director of photography

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Ferris Webster

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Randall Duell
Cedric Gibbons

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Henry Grace
Edwin B. Willis

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John Truwe ... makeup artist
William Tuttle ... makeup artist
Dave Grayson ... makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Al Shenberg ... unit manager (uncredited)

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Joel Freeman ... assistant director
Buddy Messinger ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Hank Moonjean ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Heinz Bonné ... poster artist : West Germany (uncredited)
Mentor Huebner ... production illustrator (uncredited)
Carl Nugent ... props (uncredited)
Frank Wesselhoff ... painter (uncredited)

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Wesley C. Miller ... sound recording supervisor
Conrad Kahn ... sound (uncredited)

Stunts

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Loren Janes ... stunts (uncredited)

Music Department

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Charles Wolcott ... music adaptor
Scott Bradley ... composer: cartoon sequence music (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Eylla Jacobs ... script supervisor (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Harold Clifton ... dialogue coach (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne. Despite Principle Warnecke's assertions to the contrary, Dadier quickly learns that the rumors of student discipline problems at the school are indeed true. The established teachers at the school try to counsel the newcomers, all inexperienced in such situations, as how best to handle the rowdy students. Regardless, Dadier tries to exert discipline in his class, which provokes a violent response. Dadier believes the student leaders against him are Artie West, but more specifically Gregory Miller, who he thinks uses the fact of being black as a means of racial provocation. Dadier has to decide either to leave and teach at a "real" school, or stay and figure out how to get through to his students. If he decides to stay, he has to figure out who the real disruptive influences are, especially as they have resorted to attacks of a personal nature that affect especially Anne. Written by Huggo

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Taglines The sensational novel...now on the screen! See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Blackboard Jungle (United States)
  • Semilla de maldad (United States, Spanish title)
  • Graine de violence (France)
  • Die Saat der Gewalt (Germany)
  • Semilla de maldad (Spain)
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  • 101 min
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Budget $1,168,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Clare Boothe Luce, then U.S. Ambassador to Italy, prevented the film from being shown at the Venice Film Festival; and a Senate committee had decided that the film would not have beneficial effects on contemporary youth. Both incidents only served to increase publicity and ticket sales for the controversial movie. See more »
Goofs In the garage scene, when Miller starts fixing the car, he says "nobody gives a hoot", but his lips indicates he really says "nobody gives a damn". The replacement of the profanity is made humorous by the director, who chose to play the sound effect of a car horn when the word "hoot" is uttered. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Heavy Petting (1989). See more »
Soundtracks Rock Around the Clock See more »
Crazy Credits "We, in the United States, are fortunate to have a school system that is a tribute to our communities and to our faith in American youth. Today we are concerned with juvenile delinquency -- its causes -- and its effects. We are especially concerned when this delinquency boils over into our schools. The scenes and incidents depicted here are fictional. However, we believe that public awareness is a first step toward a remedy for any problem. Is is in this spirit and with this faith that BLACKBOARD JUNGLE was produced." See more »
Quotes Richard Dadier: Now, pretty soon, you're gonna be reading in the newspapers want ads for jobs, apartments, something to buy. Advertising space is expensive so abbreviations are used. Now, write out the complete words to all the abbreviations in these problem ads. All right, get started.
[Dadier notices Belazi coping anwsers from Morales paper]
Richard Dadier: Belazi. Let's keep your eyes on your paper.
Belazi: Me?
Richard Dadier: Cheating won't help you learn those abbreviations, you know.
Artie West: He won't look for no job. His old man owns a store.
Belazi: Yeah, and I'm not gonna buy me me no Cadillac either.
Artie West: No, It's cheaper to steal one. That's arithmetic for ya, teach.
Richard Dadier: All right, Belazi. Bring me your paper up here.
[Belazi gets up and hands over his paper to Dadier]
Belazi: Five points off. What for?
Richard Dadier: For having loose eyes.
Richard Dadier: [Dadier notices that West is cheating also] West!
Artie West: You talking to me, teach?
Richard Dadier: Bring your paper up here West.
Artie West: What for?
Richard Dadier: I said bring your paper up here.
Artie West: And I said , what for?
Gregory W. Miller: Come on, Artie. Bring him the paper.
Artie West: Now , look, you keep your rotten mouth out of this, black boy.
[Miller stands up ready to pounce on West]
Richard Dadier: Miller!... Hold it... All right. All right, Miller. It's all right. Now, bring your paper up here, West.
[West crumbles the paper and throws it on the floor]
Richard Dadier: All right, we're going down to see the principal.
Artie West: We are? You gonna make me, Daddy-O? How'd you like to go to hell?
Belazi: What's the matter, Daddy-O?
Artie West: Yeah, how about it, teach? You got a big mouth. Tell me to do this, do that. Are you big enough to take me to the principal's office? Beacause that's what you're gonna have to do. Take me. So, come on! Take me! Come on!
[Dadier approaches West and West pulls out a switchblade. This stops Dadier in his tracks and the rest of the class gets up and out of the way]
Artie West: Come on. For a bright boy, you didn't learn nothing. Well, take me down. Come on. Step right up and taste a little of this , Daddy-O.
Richard Dadier: Give me that knife, West.
Artie West: Where do you want it? You want it in the belly? Or how about in the face, huh? Here it is. All you gotta do is take it. Come on, take it! Come on!
Gregory W. Miller: Take it easy, chief. He's crazy, he's high, he's floating on Sneaky Pete wine.
Pete V. Morales: He's gonna kill him.
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