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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780800104801 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0800104803 Label: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: June 14, 1967 Publisher: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video Release Date: July 08, 1994 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 14, 1967 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Poitier is very good as a man struggling with the extent of his commitment to the job, and even more as a teacher whose commitment is to proffering life lessons instead of academics. The spirit of this movie can be found in such recent films as Dangerous Minds and Mr. Holland's Opus, but none is as moving as this one. Besides, the others don't have a title song performed by pop star Lulu. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - HOW TO RUIN ONE'S LIFEGood, not great tale of a Senior class in a London public school circa 1967. Poitier is excellent as Mark Thackeray, a first year teacher with an engineering degree, who takes on some of the toughest Dickensian type students that one can imagine. Everyone in the class is seriously deficient;no Oxford aspirants here. So, Mark literally throws away the books and attempts to teach social skills, much to the chagrin of many faculty members,too burned out or sarcastic, no longer able or willing to put ... Read More Rating: - Timeless Classic!TSWL has been a favourite of mine for many years. They picked a really great cast to make this film. Although made and set in 1960s London there are certain things that are still relevant to todays world; problem kids no teacher wants in his/her class, racial profiling & stereotyping. This film shows how one man (Poitier) made a difference in trying to tackle these problem at the time. My other reason for liking this film is that I am into the "Swingin 60s.", its music, its art and fashion, ... Read More Rating: - Fabulous One of Poitiers' best ever!! With an assortment of great supporting cast, music, story and backdrop, To Sir With Love is a classic. Poitier is an out of work enginner who takes a job as a teacher in one of the worst schools in London. When at first he cannot seem to get through to the students with regular teaching methods, Poitiers character takes on a completly different way that teaches both the students and himself about the possibilities in life. Everyone should watch this movie, it was a favorite ... Read More Rating: - If OnlyWatched this with my 22 year old daughter many years after the last time I had seen it on cable. Still wonderful, innocent, if not naive, tear-jerker, with Lulu's one hit wonder, To Sir With Love, and some other one-hit wonders on a decent sound track. By the way, my daughter loved. We both cried at the end! IF ONLY they made movies like this again! Rating: - A Stirring Tribute to From Crayons to PerfumeIn TO SIR, WITH LOVE director James Clavell recreates a world that is timeless in its rich connotations of a collision of values between a working class and partly thuggish group of east London high school seniors and a dedicated teacher who is determined to give them vitally needed survival skills of which they are only dimly aware. Sidney Poitier is Mark Thackeray, an out of work engineer who agrees to teach only due to financial straits. What occurs in his class has been covered before and since in films ... Read More |
