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Blackboard Jungle - "First Day"

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New teacher Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) meets the two "big men" in his high school homeroom class, Artie (Vic Morrow) and Greg (Sidney Poitier). Shot in 1955 by director Richard Brooks, from a screenplay he wrote from Evan Hunter's novel. Nominated for 4 Oscars, Blackboard Jungle was one of Sidney Poitier's earliest films and easily shows the camera presence and depth of his acting ability. The film was Vic Morrow's first film in one of Hollywood's most prolific and difficult careers. Excluding the 152 episodes (1962-67) of the successful television series Combat, Morrow is credited with over 100 film and television appearances in a career cut short by the tragic 1982 Twilight Zone helicopter accident. His career was marked by bouts of heavy drinking and lack of quality work, but Morrow always found a way back, and was in the process of another comeback when the Twilight Zone tragedy hit. Typecast as a heavy after Blackboard, Morrow took a break from acting to study directing at USC. His "hero" break came with the role of Sgt. Sanders in Combat, which was originally an alternating lead with Rick Jason as Lt. Hanley. Morrow's popularity allowed him to demand the majority of the future leads. Blackboard Jungle is credited with being the first film to feature Rock and Roll. The opening credits are over Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: chuy93a

Length: 03:10
Rating: 4.73
Views: 11398

Tags: Blackboard  Brooks  Drama  Ford  Glenn  High  Jungle  Morrow  Poitier  Richard  School  Sidney  Teachers  Vic  

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librarien (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
BEST YEARS of OUR Lives
librarien (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
My Favorite movie of ALL TIME !!!
LordofBLTs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It's odd that I have never thought of the 50s as being a particularly important period in the history of filmmaking and acting, but that may change in light of Blackboard Jungle. Bear in mind that this is the only portion of the film I've ever seen and I just finished with it. It plays more like a modern film than pretty much any other filmmaking I've seen from that period. It could easily be from any period. Fantastic acting abilities on the part of pretty much the whole cast.
ERASERHEAD18 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
MAN ! Seeing a young Vic MOrrow is like looking at a young Jennifer Jason-Leigh ! The resemblance is uncanny !!
swkccr (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Don, Then watch Marty with Ernest Borgnine, Best Years of our Life with Dana Andrews.
chuy93a (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The movies which continue to be seen long after their times work on the strength of their story telling ability, which comes from solid performances and craftsmanship of writer, director, cinematopher, art direction, etc. There is also an incredible artistic element of these movies being shot in black and white. To think, Turner tried to colorize these masterpieces. Thankfully the process has long been buried and audiences and re-discover the beauty of black and white cinematography.
DonTomaso1988 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
One of the best films i have ever seen. i was born 1988 but i prefer the old films. they are ''realer''.
ignoranceandwant (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thanks for the post. I met Sidney Poitier one day in Beverly Hills and asked him about the film. He was a total gentleman...we talked about what we were up to for the rest of the day and then he shook my hand. By weird coincidence, I had seen him about a year before at a car wash on Pico. I also met Glenn Ford when he was bedridden, about a year or two before he died...he wasn't that responsive when I met him and he died a year or so later.
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