To Sir, With Love (1967) ( To Sir With Love )

To Sir, With Love (1967) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: To Sir With Love
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby TrueHD )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Clavell

Written By:
E.R. Braithwaite
James Clavell

Actors:
Sidney Poitier ..... Mark Thackeray
Christian Roberts ..... Denham
Judy Geeson ..... Pamela Dare
Suzy Kendall ..... Gillian Blanchard
Lulu ..... Barbara 'Babs' Pegg
Faith Brook ..... Grace Evans
Geoffrey Bayldon ..... Weston
Edward Burnham ..... Florian
Gareth Robinson ..... Tich
Grahame Charles ..... Fernman
Fiona Duncan ..... Miss Phillips
Patricia Routledge ..... Clinty
Adrienne Posta ..... Moira Joseph
Ann Bell ..... Mrs. Dare
Chris Chittell ..... Potter (as Christopher Chittell)

Synopsis:

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 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?

After searching unsuccessfully for work as an engineer, Mark Thackeray accepts a teaching position at a rough, East End London high school. His colleagues warn him about the impossible brutes he will encounter there, but still he enters his classroom unprepared for their horrible defiance. A classic portrayal of teen angst, where these impoverished, battered kids, who have turned out badly, are determined to brutalize everyone around them. The teachers let them dance between classes to vent some of their aggressive energy, but they all treat the classroom as though it were an unsupervised sandbox. With transcendent dignity, Thackary tames them and teaches them self-respect. As sentimental as the plot may be, the kids' transition is touching, and Poitier is as cool and classy as ever.

Mark Thackeray is a black unemployed engineer, born in the English Guyanna and with a simple and humble origin, who accepts to work as a teacher in an English school. Very poor and undisciplined teenagers compose his class and he has lots of difficulties to approach them. In the end, their students consider Mark as their best friend and dedicate him a wonderful songs. Mark finds that his real vocation is being a teacher and gives up the new job as engineer he has just gotten.

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