To Sir, with Love
Turned-on teens... and the teacher who had to tame them!
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$640 000
Box office
$42 432 803
Director
Actors
Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Ann Bell, Geoffrey Bayldon, Faith Brook, Patricia Routledge, Christopher Chittell
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
James Clavell, E.R. Braithwaite
Producer
Camera operator
Paul Beeson
Composer
Ron Grainer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Peter Thornton
Whole Team (10)
Whole Team (10)
Short description
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
What's left behind the scenes
- Audiences in the USA greeted the film with such enthusiasm that Columbia Pictures even conducted research to understand the reasons for its popularity. It turned out that viewers were going to cinemas to see Sidney Poitier.
- Producers applied to the British Museum administration for permission to film inside the building, but were denied this permission just days before the scheduled start of filming. However, they were allowed to take photographs, and staff photographers Laurie Ridley and Dennis Stone were sent to the museum.
- The film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (1912-2016), published in 1959, about teaching at a school in London's East End in the 1950s, although the portrayal of Braithwaite in the adaptation did not entirely correspond to reality. According to his former students, Braithwaite was a strict and stern man who did not shy away from corporal punishment, and was far from the sympathetic character played by Sidney Poitier (1927-2022).
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