"You'll never pitch for the Yanks, boy"

Glenn Ford
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  • Ford's role: Mr. Dadier, NYC high school teacher
  • Students are bad-ass inner city teens
  • He turns his back, kid throws baseball at him
       smashing blackboard, and just missing him
  • Dadier gets a grip on self, delivers famous line. . .
        . . . with cool-as-a-cucumber demeanor

    • Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock booms out during opening credits of the movie           

  • It's a new sound, and gives the film a foreboding and menacing feel
  • Movie is intended to shock the public and that's how it's marketed
  • They even invent a term for kids of this type: "juvenile delinquents"

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