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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/SidneyPoitier and James Clavell wanted to do the film, but Creator/{{Columbia}} was reluctant. They agreed to make the film for small fees, provided that Poitier got 10% of the gross and Clavell 30% of the profits.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/SidneyPoitier and James Clavell wanted to do the film, but Creator/{{Columbia}} Creator/ColumbiaPictures was reluctant. They agreed to make the film for small fees, provided that Poitier got 10% of the gross and Clavell 30% of the profits.
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* CreatorBacklash: E.R. Braithwaite disliked the film, as it focused too much on his time in the classroom, while his book included more of his life story. He did recognize that, given the climate of the time, the studio could only get away with so much.
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* CreatorBacklash: DisownedAdaptation: E.R. Braithwaite disliked the film, as it focused too much on his time in the classroom, while his book included more of his life story. He did recognize that, given the climate of the time, the studio could only get away with so much.much.
* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/SidneyPoitier and James Clavell wanted to do the film, but Creator/{{Columbia}} was reluctant. They agreed to make the film for small fees, provided that Poitier got 10% of the gross and Clavell 30% of the profits.
* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/SidneyPoitier and James Clavell wanted to do the film, but Creator/{{Columbia}} was reluctant. They agreed to make the film for small fees, provided that Poitier got 10% of the gross and Clavell 30% of the profits.
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* FakeNationality: Poitier is Bahamian-American, not Guyanese.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: In ''Film/BlackboardJungle'', Sidney Poitier was a teenaged delinquent at an InnerCitySchool. Twelve years later, he's teaching them.
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* FakeNationality: Poitier is Creator/SidneyPoitier was Bahamian-American, not Guyanese.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: In ''Film/BlackboardJungle'', Sidney Poitier was a teenaged delinquent at an InnerCitySchool. Twelve years later, he's teaching them.Guyanese.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: In ''Film/BlackboardJungle'', Sidney Poitier was a teenaged delinquent at an InnerCitySchool. Twelve years later, he's teaching them.
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* CreatorBacklash: E.R. Braithwaite disliked the film, as it focused too much on his time in the classroom, while his book included more of his life story. He did recognize that, given the climate of the time, the studio could only get away with so much.
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* DuelingMovies: ''Up the Down Staircase'' was a very similar inner-city educational drama, also released in the summer of 1967.
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* DuelingMovies: ''Up the Down Staircase'' ''Film/UpTheDownStaircase'' was a very similar inner-city educational drama, also released in the summer of 1967.
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* BlackSheepHit: The title song was this for Lulu, who was more of an uptempo rock 'n' roll singer in general.
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* 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.
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* FakeNationality: Poitier is Bahamian-American, not Guyanese.
* SequelGap: The TV sequel was made twenty-nine years after the first.
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