Target: The Corruptors (TV Series) Nobody Gets Hurt (1962) User Reviews

One of the best in the series.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 23 September 2023]

Ex Marine Frank McCloud teaches at one of the schools that's suffering at the hands of the Corruptors, finances are being swindled alway, the school left with minimal funds. One student, Rocky Kustak has it in for Frank.

I would put Nobody gets hurt at the top of the pile, after the fantastic two part story, another great episode follows. What a shame this series is coming to an end, it's going from strength to strength.

Nobody gets hurt is a powerful, unsettling and at times an uncomfortable watch, it put me in mind of Scum (Ray Winstone,) teens violently working against the establishment.

That fight scene in the snooker hall was a tremendous, realistic scene, they certainly did not hold back, I'm sure everyone wanted to see Kustak get what he deserved, and needed.

The message that came across so powerfully here, corruption isn't always about huge deceptions and gains, sometimes the mindset could be, cream a little off the top, and nobody gets hurt, the outcome is still the same.

9/10.

Juvenile jungle

[searchanddestroy-1 · 20 July 2015]

It takes place in juvenile delinquent schools where all conditions of education are worst than every where else; underpaid instructors, overcrowded rooms, everything leading to juvenile delinquency. Jungle for every one, especially for teachers, not only pupils. Millions of dollars are allowed each year by the government, but only a few are used in that purpose: help the youth of the USA. So there too exists a racket, lead by corrupted head executives. Kevin McCarthy plays here a desperate teacher in love with his task, who seems very helpless facing all this. The young rebel character is also interesting too. Some lines here remind me BLACKBOARD JUNGLE and somewhat DEATH WISH. The story focuses more on the collateral effects of the corrupted school officials - juvenile ferocity - than on the genuine problem: corruption. Exciting endind indeed.

Directed by William Conrad.

Nobody Gets Hurt

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 28 August 2023]

Frank McCloud (Kevin McCarthy) is an ex marine teaching in a rough inner city school. He might be an idealist, hoping to make a difference.

However with students such as Rocky Kustak (Michael Parks) who makes knuckledusters in metal work. Teaching other students is made harder.

Rocky is disruptive, a bad influence and should be kept away from normal schools.

Meanwhile Paul Marino in investigating what has happened to school funds meant to tackle juvenile delinquency.

This is a kind of story that is very much inspired by movies like The Blackboard Jungle.

It might be sanitised somewhat for American television. Parks is very unnerving as the sadistic student hellbent on taking down McCloud.

McCarthy very much matches him, although you wonder where are all the other teachers in this drama. Probably at home and off work due to stress.

There is nice fight scene at the end. The corruption storyline is secondary.