Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Rock Around the Clock." What song better sums up an innocent time of malteds, saddle shoes and sock hops? When a show called ...

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It was advertised as “The Most Startling Picture in Years!” and “a shock story of today’s high school hoodlums!” But more than anything else, “Blackboard Jungle” ushered in the rock ‘n’ roll era 50 ...

Zebra Passes by Blackboard Jungle: The annual reunion of Sunset Strip rockers Blackboard Jungle has become an event to really dig your teeth into. 1980s hair/sleaze/glam metal isn’t anything like as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “No Way Out” (1950) In his big-screen debut, Sidney Poitier makes a memorable impression as a pioneering African American ...

RICHARD DADIER didn’t fight World War II so he could come home and watch America crumble from within because the next generation lacked his determination, direction or skills. So he became a ...

Not many movies can claim to have changed the world, but a modest black and white film about tensions in an inner-city school did just that 60 years ago. Blackboard Jungle, which entered wide release ...

Evan Hunter, the prolific author who wrote the best-selling novel “The Blackboard Jungle” and, under the better-known pen name Ed McBain, wrote the enduringly popular 87th Precinct detective series, ...

"Rock Around the Clock" was the first time rock 'n' roll had ever been featured in a major Hollywood soundtrack. Glenn Ford was the tough teacher who has to keep the hoods in line. Sidney Poitier, ...