Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson

Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing ...( read more  read more... )his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through?

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Unrated, 105 min.

Directed by: James Clavell

Release Date: June 14, 1967

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DVD Release Date: February 1, 2000

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  • August 29, 2009
    one of the better films starring sidney poitier. its only faults are it gets a bit unrealistic towards the end and it seems a bit corny, but the last complaint can't be helped. noticed patricia routledge in it from "keeping up appearances". she's lost none of her mannerisms. haha...( read more). it's probably shit... english or english themed films pulling at me heart-strings right now. i'm just being a nationalist at the moment
  • January 4, 2009
    Although the music may seem a bit dated, To Sir, with Love is not. A timeless tale about coming of age, and one of the best in the "How I stumbled into teaching" genre. Sidney Poitier is excellent as the supremely sensitive teacher of students who are in great need a se...( read more)nsitive teacher.

    I was just watching a program that dealt with, among other things, teaching Nathaniel Hawthorne to today's generation. One thing I kept thinking is that you actually have to love a piece of literature in order to teach it. If you do not love it, your students surely never will. Good teachers are born, not made. No amount of education, no bag of tricks, can make a good teacher out of someone who is not passionate about teaching.

    Judy Geeson should have had a bigger career.

  • June 13, 2008
    The montage of the class field trip is psychedelic and kind of laughable today. However, I love the theme of the idealistic teacher trying to reach out to troubled kids. Poitier again gives a strong, intelligent performance. He can dance and have a good time to the beats of th...( read more)e British pop scene, but he doesn't feel the kids are hopeless. He encourages them to pay attention to what's going on around them, have respect for themselves and others, and take responsibility for their lives!
  • April 6, 2008
    To Sir With Love is one of the best examples of what can happen when formula works.
    Have you seen To Sir With Love before? In some shape or form yes. Does it change how great an actor Sidney Poitier is or how great the entire cast of students and teachers are (The bitter teacher...( read more) who reminds me of my buddy's own dad made me laugh so hard.) and how great the story is let's you forgive the flaws and cliques and just enjoy the film. Now why can't everyone of those movies can be like To Sir, With Love.
  • January 28, 2008
    I loved this movie when I saw it almost 40 years ago. Not too many movies you can remember for 40 years.
  • November 18, 2009
    A classic... I'm surprised I haven't rated this sooner. Many later films used the same theme, but 'To Sir, With Love' is still my favorite.
  • November 17, 2009
    Screenwriter Clavell offers Poitier a dynamic performance placing the antagonism on a counterculture highschool.A term harsh yet severely distinguished from the "noneducational" term.It's a cute film,It's also the pin-point of the Dangerous Minds type of films a few decades later...( read more),certainly...we all realize Clavell's film will be the one to stand the test of time,yes?
  • November 1, 2009
    i also injoyed the secaond film
  • October 23, 2009
    Recommended by Arianeta
  • October 21, 2009
    To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. James Clavell both directed and wrote the film's screenplay, based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite. Th...( read more)e film has remained popular through the years, perhaps because of its somewhat sentimental view of schoolkids who just need the right kind of guidance to set them on the path to contented adulthood, all this despite the first half hour of bad behaviour Thackeray has to endure. The film's title song "To Sir, with Love", sung by Lulu, reached number one on the U.S. pop charts.
    Excellant peformance by Sidney Poitier who carries this role on his capable shoulders, rendering To Sir With Love as a neat nostalgia piece, if not a believable one.

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