History Film / ToSirWithLove

Poitier also starred in the 1996 [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] sequel ''To Sir With Love II'', in which a retired Thackeray returns to the U.S. to teach in an inner-city high school in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. It was directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featured brief cameos from actors Judy Geeson and Lulu reprising their original roles.

* DarkestHour: After his advise towards Pamela on giving her mother another chance, it only caused him and his race to be a BrokenPedestal towards Pamela, finally completely ostracized Thackeray from his class to a point he now thinks there is no future for him as a teacher and prepares to resign from his occupation and give up trying to connect with TheMeanBrit youths as he accepts to move on to his original goal of becoming an engineer. However, when Denham attempts goad Thackeray into a boxing match to hurt him out of spite and to convince him to resign from teaching earlier, Thackeray manages to defeat him in both self-defense and having enough of Denham's antagonism, which in turn causing the class to finally look up to Thackeray again as a RebuiltPedestal.

* TheMeanBrit: Most of the students were this towards Thackeray lead by Denham.

* NotSoDifferent: When the students ask what he could know about being poor, Thackeray says that he's been flat-broke, and reveals that he didn't always have a posh accent either.

* DarkestHour: After his advise towards Pamela on giving her mother another chance, it only caused him and his race to be a BrokenPedestal towards Pamela, finally completely ostracized Thackeray from his class to a point he now thinks there is no future for him as a teacher and prepares to resign from his occupation and give up trying to connect with TheMeanBrit youths as he accepts to move on to his original goal of becoming an engineer. However, when Denham attempts goad Thackeray into a boxing match to hurt him out of spite and to convince him to resign from teaching earlier, Thackeray manages to defeat him in both self-defense and having enough of Denham's antagonism, which in turn causing the class to finally look up to Thackeray again.

* ThematicThemeTune[=/=]TitleThemeTune: Recorded by Lulu, who plays Babs in the film, it's notable for being the only recording by a British artist to [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff become a #1 hit in the U.S. while failing to chart at all its home country]] (where it was relegated to a B-side).

* TitleDrop: Thackeray is given a coffee cup (an unidentified object in the novel) with the title on the side, as Lulu [[ThemeTuneCameo performs the song in character for him.]]

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Poitier plays Mark Thackeray, a teacher originally from [[{{UsefulNotes/Guyana}} British Guiana, now Guyana]], who recently moved from the United States. The plot primarily centers around Thackeray's idealism clashing with his teenage pupils' cynicism.

''To Sir, with Love'' is a 1967 British drama film starring Creator/SidneyPoitier that deals with social and racial issues at a secondary school in inner-city UsefulNotes/London. James Clavell both directed and wrote the film's screenplay, [[FilmOfTheBook based on the semi-autobiographical novel]] of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite.

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[[caption-width-right:288: TrailersAlwaysLie. In this case, that's a crying shame. This is the poster for the US release, as the term ''fresh'' in this context is unknown in the UK.]]

''To Sir, with Love'' is a 1967 British drama film starring Creator/SidneyPoitier that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. James Clavell both directed and wrote the film's screenplay, [[FilmOfTheBook based on the semi-autobiographical novel]] of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite. Sidney Poitier plays Mark Thackeray, a teacher originally from [[{{UsefulNotes/Guyana}} British Guiana, now Guyana]], who recently moved from the United States. The plot primarily centers around Thackeray's idealism clashing with his teenage pupils' cynicism.

Poitier also starred in a 1996 TV sequel ''To Sir With Love II'' with a retired Thackeray leaving UsefulNotes/{{London}} to teach in an inner city high school in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. It was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and featured brief cameos from actors Judy Geeson and Lulu reprising their original roles.

** It should be noted that while that is the exact quotation of the book, in British English (especially of the era), slut was a synonym for slob, and thus to be sluttish would also commonly be understood to be slovenly. [[HaveAGayOldTime This meaning isn't as ubiquitious today, however]] .

''To Sir, with Love'' is a 1967 British drama film starring Creator/SidneyPoitier that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. James Clavell both directed and wrote the film's screenplay, [[FilmOfTheBook based on the semi-autobiographical novel]] of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite. Sidney Poiter plays Mark Thackeray, a teacher originally from [[{{UsefulNotes/Guyana}} British Guiana, now Guyana]], who recently moved from the United States. The plot primarily centers around Thackeray's idealism clashing with his teenage pupils' cynicism.

* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Thackeray insists on the students calling him 'Sir", but returns the favor by call them "Miss" or "Mr" and insisting that they do the same when talking to each other.

* PhotoMontage: When Thackeray takes the kids to a museum, set to the TitleTune by Lulu.

* ThematicThemeTune / TitleThemeTune: Recorded by Lulu, who plays Babs in the film, it's notable for being the only recording by a British artist to [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff become a #1 hit in the U.S. while failing to chart at all its home country]] (where it was relegated to a B-side).

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The movie downplays an ongoing theme of Braithwaite's book, the hidden racism in British society. The book opens with a woman refusing to sit next to Braithwaite on a bus, whereas the movie has two women cheerfully joking with Thackeray. There's also no mention that the reason he's working as a teacher in the first place is no one will give him a job as an engineer, despite being better qualified than most white applicants.