Jerry Mickelsen
Actor
Movies6
Movie6.9CrimeDramaRichard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · 165 votes
Movie7.5ComedyRomanceBased on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
The Happy Years
1950 · 4 votes
Movie5.2CrimeDramaA man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Circumstantial Evidence
1945 · 9 votes
Movie6.2DramaA biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
Follow the Sun
1951 · 8 votes
Movie4.8CrimeMysteryIn a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Backlash
1947 · 20 votes
Movie5.7DramaFamilyCitizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school.
Again Pioneers
1950 · 3 votes