Blackboard Jungle
1955 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 10,162 VOTES · DIR. Richard Brooks
Overview
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,256 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:07 Come here! What's the matter? You wanna be a bum? Come here!
00:06:24 Take a ruler to one of these delinquents, he'll beat you with it.
00:10:00 I've had luck from the very first moment we met, Anne.
00:15:05 Teach, what'd Mr. Halloran say your name was?
00:18:53 Number of this class is 55, number of the classroom is 206.
00:23:16 What you do, they'll do.
00:28:05 - No, it wasn't the brown suit. - Gray suit.
00:32:35 - Hi. I wanted to thank you. - That's all right.
00:36:49 - That's funny. - What's funny?
00:43:00 It was dark. I told you it was dark. I couldn't see anything.
00:47:05 - Come on, Morales. - Come on, chicken.
00:50:44 Well, not the same as you have, sir.
00:54:17 - What were you doing? - Doing?
00:58:25 ...and you get your lousy head blowed right off."
01:03:27 Dadier, is that tin can full of money yet?
01:07:13 He was right to quit.
01:12:20 So Jack got rich. And when he grew up, he married a princess.
01:15:13 ...and most of all, just learn to think for yourselves...
01:18:51 Tell me, Rick. Don't you ever get fed up with this place?
01:22:19 - What happened? - Your missus, I mean.
01:26:06 Yeah, well, I'd like to give them something for what they did to me.
01:29:36 I was wrong about something else too.
01:34:07 For a bright boy, you didn't learn nothing.
01:37:50 You're saying, "Why do that?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,256
Dialogue density12.4 lines / min
First line00:02:07
Final line01:37:50
Production Record
DirectorRichard Brooks
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes10,162