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To Sir, with Love holds an 89% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews. [14] The film grossed $42,432,803 at the box office in the United States, yielding $19,100,000 in rentals, on a $640,000 budget, [3] making it the sixth highest grossing picture of 1967 in the US. Poitier especially benefited from ...
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To Sir, With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on the true story of Braithwaite accepting a teaching post in a secondary school. The novel, in 22 chapters, gives insight into the politics of race and class in postwar London.
The late revolutionary actor Sidney Poitier chose to inhabit roles that shined a light on the ugliness of racial injustice and defied it with grace, poise, and dignity. Ali Velshi explains how ...
The legendary Scottish singer Lulu has had a career that’s spanned six decades and is still, as she says, “smashing it onstage.” But she is most associated with a song and a film that she ...
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85%, based on 20 reviews, with an average score of 6.9/10. [10] On Metacritic , the film received a score of 67, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Image: Sidney Poitier In 'To Sir, With Love' (Getty Images) While Hollywood's Golden Age was winding down by the late 1960s, Poitier's personal Golden Age was just getting into full swing by 1967.
He appeared as Potter in the 1967 film To Sir, with Love. [4] In 1968 he appeared as a Trooper in The Charge of the Light Brigade, and made an uncredited appearance in If..... [5] This was followed by a starring role as one of the Freewheelers, made as an action/adventure children's serial by Southern Television between 1968 and 1973. [6]