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To Sir, with Love: Directed by James Clavell. With Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall. Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
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A novice teacher (the late Sidney Poitier) faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class students in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of teenagers in the 1960s. Poitier gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out-of-work engineer who turns to teaching in London's tough East End.
But, "To Sir, with Love" did very well with the "Film Daily" critics: "To Sir, with Love" was the year's #4 Film, and #1 song. Poitier was the #3 "Best Actor" (one better than his "In the Heat of the Night" role), Christian Roberts was "Juvenile Actor" #2, and Judy Geeson won as #1 "Juvenile Actress".
To Sir, with Love: Directed by Jay Sandrich. With Hari Rhodes, James Grout, Rosemary Leach, Roddy Maude-Roxby. A Black foreign-exchange teacher must adapt his lesson plans in order to instruct the lower-middle-class London students who are his pupils.
The movie started like many teacher reform movies--"To Sir, With Love," "Lean on Me," "The Marva Collins Story," "The George McKenna Story," "Sister Act 2," and "Dangerous Minds" to name a few. Mr. Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) enters his class and we see every level of depravity, disrespect, and delinquency.
After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and decides to relocate to Chicago and accepts a job teaching at an inner-city school. He finds several students whom he thinks have potential to succeed in life if they stay on right path.
To Her, with Love: Directed by Stan Foster. With Skye P. Marshall, Tobias Truvillion, Shanice, Maria Howell. Two teachers fall for each other while trying to save their school's art department.
To Sir, with Love (1967) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more...
Pamela Dare : [reading from her school book] And he had learned to love, I know not why, for this in such as him seemed strange of mood. But thus it was and though in solitude's small part the nipped affections have to grow, in him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
