History Film / ToSirWithLove

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Thackeray occasionally does this, starting with a rant about how sluttish and unladylike the female students are after the incident mentioned above.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Inverted. Braithwaite' s courtship of and eventual engagement to Gillian is downgraded to him being oblivious to her obvious interest in him. Though a line from the sequel indicates that they married.

[[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]]

* 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).

* 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]].

* {{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.

* EurekaMoment: Thackeray has one of these after finding the "disgusting object". He heads into the staff room, rants angrily about his students to the female teacher, and halfway through realizes that the lessons he's been teaching them are absolutely useless for preparing the class for adulthood.

'''''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 insist's 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.

* AdaptationDecay: The movie downplays an ongoing theme of the 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.

''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.

* BerserkButton: Thackeray looks into a classroom heater and goes off on the female students when he finds a "disgusting object" of theirs burning inside. (While the object in question isn't identified in the film, the book reveals it as a used sanitary napkin.)

* InnerCitySchool: The British version of one.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Thackeray occasionally does this, starting with a rant about how sluttish and unladylike the female students are after finding the BerserkButton mentioned above.

'''''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.

* DuelingMovies: ''Up the Down Staircase'' was a very similar inner-city educational drama, also released in the summer of 1967.

* FakeNationality: Poitier is Bahamian-American, not Guyanese.

* SequelGap: The TV sequel was made twenty-nine years after the first.

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

'''''To Sir, with Love''''' is a 1967 British drama film starring 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.

'''''To Sir, With Love''''' is a 1967 British drama film starring 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.

[[caption-width-right:288: TrailersAlwaysLie. In this case, that's a crying shame.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Thackeray occasionally does this, starting with a rant about how unladylike the female students are.

** The main reason wasn't brought out in the movie when Thackeray looked into a heater and went off. In the book he found that the girls were burning a used sanitary napkin.

* ThemeTuneCameo

* TitleDrop: Thackeray is given a coffee cup (an unidentified object in the novel) with the title on the side, as well as it being a song.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Thackeray occasionally does this, starting with a rant about how unladylike the female students are.
** The main reason wasn't brought out in the movie when Thackeray looked into a heater and went off. In the book he found that the girls were burning a used sanitary napkin.

[[quoteright:288: TrailersAlwaysLie. In this case, that's a crying shame.]]

* AdaptationDecay: An ongoing theme in the novel is the casual everyday racism Braithwaite faces in British society -- for instance the novel opens with a woman refusing to sit next to Braithwaite on the bus, and the only reason he's going for a teacher's job is that he's constantly refused an engineer's job despite being more qualified than many white applicants. Likewise a scene where he's refused service at a restaurant while on a date with his girlfriend. ''All'' this is removed from the film (the bus scene in particular is changed) despite Braithwaite pointing out that this casual racism thrives because it's invisible to the public at large.