![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly 60s years later it still packs a punch, with Glenn Ford's Richard Dadier (so called mainly to allow the jive-talking students to call him "Daddy-O") struggling to control his pupils at the fictional North Manual high school. Today, it is the least shocking aspect of a film that touches on knife crime, drug use and even rape within the state school system, but back then it was a touchstone for disaffected youth, never mind the fact that Haley was a journeying white musician in his 30s and the song was already a year old. The reason for such shocking behaviour wasn't so much the film's content, which today garners a more sober 12 rating, but because of the use of Bill Haley and the Comets' early rock'n'roll hit Rock Around the Clock, which played over the opening credits.
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