To Sir, with Love
1967 · TMDB 7.4
Directed by James Clavell
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Why it matters
Sidney Poitier's Mark Thackeray takes a teaching post in London's East End and wins over a hostile class with unflinching honesty and a refusal to accept their self-defeating cynicism. The film's climax, built around the title song, remains a defining moment of quiet triumph.
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Released
- 1967-06-14
- Studio
- Columbia British Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.4
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