TO SIR, WITH LOVE
starring SIDNEY POITIER
 
Drama/Teen
UPC: 043396032965
NR (Not Rated)
 
A 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer Lulu
making her film debut. James Clavell
directed from his own screenplay, which was based on E. R. Braithwaite's 1959
autobiographical novel of the same name.
 
American Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) recently received his degree in engineering, but cannot find work. To make ends meet, he takes a job as a teacher in a rough London East End school populated mostly with troublemakers who were rejected from other schools for their behavior. While the students at first see Thackeray as just another teacher open for ridicule and bullying, his calm demeanor and desire to see them succeed gradually earn him their respect.
 
The film's title song "To Sir with Love", sung by Lulu, peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and ultimately was the best-selling single in the United States of that year.
 
A very good used DVD movie in a case with mild wear.