Sidney Poitier stars as Mark Thackeray who takes a job as a new
teacher while he is looking for a job in engineering. He’s surprised at the
chaos in the classroom. As he strives to do his best for the kids, he throws
out the standard methods of teaching and brings order and courtesy to the
class.
One of the students is played by Lulu, who also sang the
theme song. The song was popular on the radio and brought a lot of attention to
the film, and didn’t hurt her career either. Lulu performed the theme song to
James Bond film The Man With The Golden
Gun and appeared on American Idol as a guest performer in 2007. She and
Judy Geeson, both having played Thackeray’s students in 1967, reprised their
roles for the sequel in 1996, To Sir,
with Love II.
Sidney Poitier had already won his Best Actor Oscar (in 1964
for his role in Lilies of the Field) when this film came out in 1967. His
earlier successes drew people to theaters later that same year when two more of
his popular films, In the Heat of the Night
and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,
were released.
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