Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily Entertainment GuideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsPride MonthAmerican Black Film FestivalSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Goofs

Blackboard Jungle

Edit

Continuity

In the record-smashing scene, as the students exit the classroom, Santini is shown walking down the hallway, but in the next shot he is still in the classroom giving Mr. Edwards his glasses.
Helpful•7
0
As Mr. Dadier is talking to the detective about his attackers, a few of the students are seen entering the classroom twice.
Helpful•4
1
In the climactic knife fight scene, there is a close-up of Glenn Ford walking toward the camera. Just as he gets almost even with the camera (only the left half of his body is visible), there is a noise to his left, possibly a clapboard, and he stops and begins walking to his left. But in the next shot from behind him he continues to walk toward Vic Morrow.
Helpful•3
1

Revealing mistakes

Set decoration includes a cardboard alphabet running across the top of the blackboard--something rarely seen past a third-grade classroom, let alone a high school.
Helpful•16
4
In the maternity hospital there is a sign reading "DOCTOR'S LOCKER ROOM" instead of "DOCTORS' LOCKER ROOM".
Helpful•15
4
As Professor Kraal escorts Dadier through the suburban school, the sound of students singing the national anthem is heard in the distance, louder in each succeeding scene, missing no verses. Kraal and Dadier are eventually shown ending their tour in the school auditorium, where they've joined the students in singing the anthem's final verse. However, in order for the two men to be present during the assembly while the students were still singing the anthem, the students would have to have sung the anthem over and over again for the entire time it took for the two men to tour the school.
Helpful•9
6

Audio/visual unsynchronised

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.
Helpful•12
0
When the hoods break Josh's record collection, one of the kids starts playing a record and we hear music. During one part of the scene we see the phonograph arm playing the final groove of the record indicating that the record has finished playing, but we can still hear the music.
Helpful•6
0
The elevated train structure is clearly shown as the end of the line. As such, trains would move very slowly either toward the end of track, or start slowly moving away from it. However, one hears trains moving loudly overhead at high speed with a rapid clickety-clack noise as if they were already traveling at high speed, which would not be the case for trains coming to a stop, or just starting to move away. Also, only the end cars would be heard here, not the entire train.
Helpful•6
1

Crew or equipment visible

When the parked car is turned over by the hoodlums driving by, a securing cable is visible as the car flips.
Helpful•9
0
Before Mr. Dadier enters the principal's office, the top of a movie camera can be seen rolling behind a high window of the office.
Helpful•4
1

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Top Gap
By what name was Blackboard Jungle (1955) officially released in India in English?
Answer
  • See more gaps
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More from this title

More to explore

Production art
List
Staff Picks: What to Watch This Month
See our picks
Production art
List
Theatrical Releases You Can Watch at Home
See the list

User lists

Related lists from IMDb users
Create a list
Teachers
created 2 years ago • 22 titles
Sidney Poitier in To Sir, with Love (1967)
Best School Movies
created 4 months ago • 26 titles
Greer Garson and Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Movies' titles elicited from books
created 3 months ago • 28 titles
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandahl Bergman in Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Steve highest priority
created 2 years ago • 37 titles
Brené Brown in Atlas of the Heart (2022)
High school movies
created 3 years ago • 38 titles
Michelle Pfeiffer, Ivan Sergei, Wade Dominguez, Paula Garcés, Marisela Gonzales, Bruklin Harris, Rahman Ibraheem, Renoly Santiago, and Marcello Thedford in Dangerous Minds (1995)
Gibbons the Goat
created 3 months ago • 39 titles
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)

User polls

Related polls from IMDb users
Of these 25 films about high school life, which is your favorite?
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Best U.S. Movie Crime Dramas of the 1950s
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
2016 National Film Registry
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
They Called Him Mister Poitier.
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Favorite 'youth-defining' film ...
Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953)
Advancing the Movie Industry
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Editorial Image
Photos
LGBTQIA+ Power Couples of Hollywood
See the gallery

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb app
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb app
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb app
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.