To Sir, with Love (1967)
June 14, 1967Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray
Christian Roberts
Denham
Judy Geeson
Pamela Dare
Suzy Kendall
Gillian Blanchard
Lulu
Barbara 'Babs' Pegg
Ann Bell
Mrs. Dare
Geoffrey Bayldon
Theo Weston
Faith Brook
Grace Evans
Patricia Routledge
Clinty Clintridge
Christopher Chittell
Potter
Lynne Sue Moon
Miss Wong
Adrienne Posta
Moira Joseph
Edward Burnham
Florian
Rita Webb
Mrs. Joseph
Fiona Duncan
Euphemia Phillips
Mona Bruce
Josie Dawes
Marianne Stone
Gert
Dervis Ward
Mr. Bell
Peter Attard
Ingham
Harvey Woods
CastingDirector
Sally James
Schoolgirl
Grahame Charles
Fernman
Michael Des Barres
Williams
Margaret Heald
Osgood
Ellison Kemp
Campbell
Albert Lampert
Schoolboy
Chitra Neogy
Schoolgirl
Stewart Bevan
Schoolboy
Cyril Shaps
Mr. Pinkus (uncredited)
James Clavell
Director / Producer / Writer
E.R. Braithwaite
Writer
Peter Thornton
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 14, 1967
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 45m
Content RatingNR
Budget$625,000
Box Office$42,432,803
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios · London, United Kingdom
Genres
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To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in a secondary school in the East End of London. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Patricia Routledge 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.
The film's title song "To Sir with Love", sung by Lulu, peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and ultimately was the best-selling single in the US that year; meanwhile, Poitier, playing a charismatic schoolteacher to troubled youth, was the first black actor to win a Golden Globe Award. The film ranked number 27 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.
The film premiered and became a hit one month before another film about troubled schools, Up the Down Staircase, appeared. A made-for-television sequel, To Sir, with Love II, was released in 1996, with Poitier reprising his starring role.