To Sir, with Love

Jun 14, 1967

1h 45m

★ 7.5

Turned-on teens... and the teacher who had to tame them!

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Columbia British Productions

To Sir, with Love Trailers

Cast

Mark Thackeray

Sidney Poitier

Denham

Christian Roberts

Pamela Dare

Judy Geeson

Gillian Blanchard

Suzy Kendall

Barbara 'Babs' Pegg

Lulu

Mrs. Dare

Ann Bell

Theo Weston

Geoffrey Bayldon

Grace Evans

Faith Brook

Clinty Clintridge

Patricia Routledge

Potter

Christopher Chittell

Miss Wong

Lynne Sue Moon

Moira Joseph

Adrienne Posta

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