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Blackboard Jungle, Time magazine opined, undermined the American way of life, giving aid and comfort to Communists. If it were not withdrawn, predicted Clare Booth Luce, U.S. ambassador to Italy, the film would “cause the greatest scandal in motion picture history.” “No matter what the outcome of the film,” Senator Estes Kefauver’s committee on juvenile delinquency concluded, a substantial number of teenagers would identify with Artie West, the sadistic teenager in Blackboard Jungle, who assaults Glenn Ford’s young and pretty wife. Glenn C. Altschuler: All Shook Up: How Rock n Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History) (p. 33). Oxford University Press.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:35:39 +0000

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