![]() He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes he first suspects Miller, but later realizes that Artie West (Vic Morrow) is the perpetrator, and challenges him in a showdown-type scenario in the classroom. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. ![]() Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) is the teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils, led by an African American student, Gregory Miller (Sidney Poitier), frequently engage in anti-social behaviour. The story revolves around an idealistic teacher on his first job in a tough urban all male high school. ![]() The movie is hard hitting and probably a better representation of juvenile delinquency in the nineteen fifties than Rebel Without A Cause or The Wild One. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter. Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. ![]()
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