Blackboard Jungle

DIE SAAT DER GEWALT (THE SEED OF VIOLENCE)

AKA BLACKBOARD JUNGLE

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE  Nr. 3028

WEST GERMANY 1955

"A shock story of today's high school hoodlums!"

Starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier

Directed by Richard Brooks

Based on the novel by Evan Hunter

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

U.S.A. 1955

Blackboard Jungle was originally rejected in the UK for containing "unbridled, revolting hooliganism" and having a "damaging and harmful effect on teenagers". It was eventually released as an X certificate after around 5 minutes of footage was removed. When shown at a South London Cinema in Elephant and Castle in 1956 the teenage Teddy Boy audience began to riot, tearing up seats and dancing in the aisles. After that, riots took place around the country wherever the film was shown.

The Shiny Narrow Grin - Jane Gaskell

AN UNINHIBITED NOVEL OF TEENAGE MORALS, TOUGH, IRONIC AND PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING

Publisher: Hodder Books

Number: 743

Publishing Year: 1965

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 

Cover Artist:

I want him, Terry thinks. I want The Boy. Terry is a Mod. The Boy is something altogether more profoundly disturbing. He is not insane but there is a deeper terror in his relationship with the schoolgirl who is sure she can look after herself.

DAILY EXPRESS . . . 'precocious teenage world of pep-pills, parties and punch-ups, all vividly and waspishly observed'

SUNDY TELEGRAPH . . . 'as hip a description of the teenage scene as has appeared for some time'

SPECTATOR . . . ' a splendid piece of documentary writing'

EVENING STANDARD . . . ' Miss Gaskell's style is crisp, concise and lively, the dialogue waspish and with-it, the observationb of teenage morals and manners rings authentic'

HARPER'S BAZZAR

'A book not to give your aunt'

The Wasted Years - Jess Stearn

 SEX - SADISM AND MURDER 

- BRUTALITY AND PERVERSION 

- PROSTITUTION AND DRUG ADDICTION 

These are the trademarks of the teen-age gangs

Publisher: Hillman Macfadden Books

Number: 50-109

Publishing Year: 1961

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 50c

Cover Artist:

SEX-and-SADISM by teen-agers!

MURDER-and-MAYHEM by mere children!

You read about it every day in your newspaper but . . .

WHY did a pretty Texas teen-ager kill her brother "just for kicks?"

WHY did a boy say calmly, "I don't know why I killed him; I didn't even know him?

WHY did a seventeen-year old say, "I wanted to see how it felt for a knife to dig into bone?"

WHY did a clean-cut youngster stomp a total stranger to death because he didn't like the tune the man was humming?

Jess Stearn, top New York newspaperman, goes behind the scenes to search for the "why" in this carefully documented study of what happens before and after the headlines.

Call Me Duke - Harry Grey

Publisher: Graphic Books

Number: G-215

Publishing Year: 1956

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Samson Pollen

"Call me Duke . . . .

I'm the kid with the gun. And the gang.

And the dream. The dream of a bigger gun. Of money. Girls. Power!

A dream full of life - yet ending as it must, in killing -

All right, not a dream. A nightmare!"

A SAVAGE, searching novel of desperate youth in the teeming bowels of a big-city slum - corrupted while yet children, twisted in their teens, made mobsters and vice-girls before they are old enough to vote!

By HARRY GREY, author of THE HOODS

Fanny - Hank Janson

 She was rich and bored, and her search for new thrills led her to the sadistic beatnik artist

Publisher: Gold Star Books

Number: IL7-28 (Hank Janson Mystery Series No. 11)

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 

Cover Artist:

Fanny was rich, spoiled, bored with life. She had experienced just about everything and wanted new thrills. So not even Hank Janson could stop her from becoming the mistress and slave of a sadistic beatnik artist. But she got more than she bargained for when the "beatnik" turned out to be something other than just a phony down-and-out painter.

Angel's In The Gutter - Joseph Hilton

They roamed in gangs, these lost girls, women at fifteen - too old at twenty

GOLD MEDAL BOOKS (US) S913

CONNECTICUT, USA

2ND PRINTING AUGUST 1959

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED GOLD MEDAL BOOKS 1955

WALK DOWN ALL YOUR SIDE STREETS

through the raucous stone jungle of the city's backwash - and you'll meet her.

The delinquent. And hundreds like her, roaming the pavements in aggressive knots, schooled on reefers, zip guns, gutter rumbles.

At fifteen they are women, hard and cynical beyond their years, openly contemptuous of the law, eager for the glamour of the big-time ways of violence.

the lucky ones get caught, maybe in time.

Run, Chico, Run - Wenzell Brown

 "Sharply violent serious novel . . . of teen-age gangs and narcotic addiction . . ." 

Anthony Boucher -The New York Times

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 335

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist:

THEY WERE SPAWNED IN THE SIDESTREETS OF HELL

IN VICE, IN POVERTY, IN DESPAIR they grow to womanhood and to manhood.

Walk northwest from this street sign, and you'll hit the district where they live. Spanish Harlem, a no man's land in neon, where the kids are weaned on reefer's, lead pipes and gang wars. None escape this concrete jungle.

Chico tried. Chico, who found tender love in its back alleys, who knew there was another life beyond the block's squalor and struggled to find it - until Spanish Harlem sucked him back to its depths.

RUN, CHICO, RUN