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To Sir with Love
To Sir, With Love (1967)

Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through?

Sidney Poitier ... Mark Thackeray Christian Roberts ... Denham Judy Geeson ... Pamela Dare Suzy Kendall ... Gillian Blanchard Lulu ... Barbara 'Babs' Pegg (as 'Lulu') Faith Brook ... Grace Evans Geoffrey Bayldon ... Weston Edward Burnham ... Florian Gareth Robinson ... Tich Grahame Charles ... Fernman Fiona Duncan ... Miss Phillips Patricia Routledge ... Clinty Adrienne Posta ... Moira Joseph Ann Bell ... Mrs. Dare Chris Chittell ... Potter (as Christopher Chittell)

Director: James Clavell

Runtime: 105 mins

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062376/

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Video : 610 MB, 858 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 544*288 (16:9), DIV3 = DivX v3 ;-) MPEG-4 (Low-Motion), Audio : 88 MB, 123 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = Lame MP3, CBR,

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Recorded on a budget of just $640,000, To Sir, With Love was drafted, as with Lilies of the Field, to give Sidney a share of the gross profits to account for his diminished fee. Writer-director Clavell also received the same arrangement, a writer who was chosen for his love of the source material. The rights to the source, an identically-named novel by E. R. Braithwaite, had passed from studio to studio, and been offered to numerous stars before finally getting the green light when in the hands of Columbia President
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