Vic Morrow
American actor
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“Blackboard Jungle”
- In Richard Brooks: Early films
…by teenage hoodlums (played by Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier, among others) until a new teacher (Glenn Ford) intervenes. Extremely influential, the drama helped launch the rock-and-roll revolution by using “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets as its theme. Brooks received an Academy Award
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…led by Artie West (Vic Morrow) terrorize students and teachers alike. On Dadier’s first day, fellow teacher Lois Hammond (Margaret Hayes) is nearly raped by a student. Dadier beats her assailant, but he and math teacher Joshua Edwards (Richard Kiley) are attacked by Artie and his gang in retaliation.…
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