4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 13, 2022
Billy Haley and The Comet’s “Rock Around The Clock” is often touted as the first rock n’ roll tune. I won’t get sucked into that discussion for the time being, but whatever we want to call it, there’s this sense of youth culture — teenagers as a demographic read more
From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read read more
Blackboard Jungle
Directed by Richard Brooks
Written by Richard Brooks from a novel by Evan Hunter
1955/USA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
First viewing/Netflix rental A lot of it doesn’t quite ring true, but this film has nervous energy to burn. Veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) has a surprisingly read more
Stardust Posted by Vanessa Buttino on Feb 12, 2014
Weekday Watch: Blackboard Jungle (1955)
First, let's get the technical stuff out of the way: this film was directed by Richard Brooks and released in March 1955. It starred Glenn Ford as high school English teacher Richard Daddy-O Dadier, Anne Francis as his insecure, jealous, and fragile wi read more
