---
title: 'Blackboard Jungle (1955)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Brooks'
released: '1955-03-19'
runtime_minutes: 101
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blackboard-jungle-1955'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047885/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Blackboard Jungle (1955)

1955 · 101 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high-school teens, and for the unique breakout role of a black cast member, Sidney Poitier, as rebellious yet musically talented student Gregory Miller.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-brooks)
- **Screenplay:** [Richard Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-brooks), [Evan Hunter](https://cinepixo.com/people/evan-hunter)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Max C. Freedman](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-c-freedman)
- **Producer:** [Pandro S. Berman](https://cinepixo.com/people/pandro-s-berman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Russell Harlan](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-harlan)
- **Editor:** [Ferris Webster](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferris-webster)

## Cast

- [Martha Wentworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-wentworth)
- [Rafael Campos](https://cinepixo.com/people/rafael-campos)
- [Richard Kiley](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-kiley)
- [Horace McMahon](https://cinepixo.com/people/horace-mcmahon)
- [Warner Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/warner-anderson)
- [Margaret Hayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-hayes)
- [Robert Foulk](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-foulk)
- [Jamie Farr](https://cinepixo.com/people/jamie-farr)
- [Louis Calhern](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-calhern)
- [Valentin de Vargas](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentin-de-vargas)
- [Basil Ruysdael](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-ruysdael)
- [Vic Morrow](https://cinepixo.com/people/vic-morrow)
- [Anne Francis](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-francis)
- [Paul Mazursky](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mazursky)
- [John Erman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-erman)

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