To Sir, With Love (Columbia Pictures) (1967)

(Mat IE; Still No. 50) Sidney Poitier, a new teacher in a London slum school, discusses his students with Faith Brook, a colleague on the staff. It's a scene from "To Sir, With Love," new Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. ETT TTL LULLLLI LUE LELLULLELLLLULLOLLoLo LoCo LoLo ‘Lulu’ Her real name is Marie Lawrie. To British television audiences, and to record-buyers in America as well, she is known as “Lulu.” At the Theatre, where Sidney Poitier is starred as a teacher in James Clavell’s production of “To Sir, With Love,” she makes her motion picture debut in a straight acting role, as a student named Barbara Pegg. Whatever the name, Lulu is a green-eyed, red-haired dynamo, a swinging hipster with a welldefined appeal to the younger generation. Since she herself is only now moving out of her teens, this is understandable enough, Equally understandable is the fact that the Glasgow-born girl’s recordings of “Shout” and “Satisfied” landed in the top ten in England, and stayed on bestseller charts in America for satisfyingly long periods. In “To Sir, With Love,” among other tunes, Lulu sings the title song during a graduation dance where her class honors their teacher for the manner in which, by his own example, he had taught them an awareness of their responsibilities to themselves, their families and the world of adults they were entering. Songs heard in the film are the title tune, “Off and Running,” “Stealing My Love From Me” and “It’s Getting Harder All the Time.” Lulu appears regularly on British television in musical shows and panel programs like “Jukebox Jury.” She epitomizes London’s “swinging city,” and dresses gaily in the very innest of in-gear. j ® e ? e Swinging City PTUTETUTTELUTULTLUTLULLTLEELUELTEULE LULU ELLE LLL The City of London “swings,” in what might almost seem to be the unlikeliest “swinging” film ever made there. It is James Clavell’s production of “To Sir, With Love,” starring Sidney Poitier at the Theatre. “To Sir, With Love” is the story of a teacher who is put in charge of a rough, insubordinate bunch of youngsters in a tough East End of London school, treats them as adults and gradually imparts standards of decency. “To Sir, With Love” also is peopled with “in” youngsters, wearing their own mod garb and hairdos, and doing their own dances to tunes of their own choosing. Among the featured players are The “Mindbenders,” a popular British recording team, and “Lulu,” a swinging British television personality whose recordings have made the best-seller lists. “Lulu” plays a gusty young teen-ager, which is hardly surprising; she is. Only part of the film was made in the district in which it was set, minutes away from the Tower of London, in Wapping where the Thames is and Limehouse was. Exterior scenes of the school itself, a depressing red-brick structure, were filmed in London’s western outskirts in the disused Victoria Barracks, which once housed military guardsmen doing duty at Windsor Castle. London streets, museums and waterfront vistas all loom large in the Technicolor cameras, and as background for the film. James Clavell wrote the screenplay for “To Sir, With Love,” based on the book by E. R. Braithwaite, and he produced and directed the picture. Also featured in support of Poitier are Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts and Suzy Kendall. John R. Sloan served as executive producer for the film, a Columbia Pictures release. Four Songs POU UVOVAVATA OAT ATETA TATTLE Four songs are heard in “To Sir, With Love,” the Columbia Pictures release starring Sidney Poser at the. 5.7: oss Theatre. They are the title tune, “Off and Running,” “Stealing My Love From Me” and “It’s Getting Harder All the Time.” The “Mindbenders,” a British recording team, play the music and “Lulu,” popular British television and song personality, does the singing in the film, which stars Poitier as a teacher in a tough East End of London school where he meets considerable student rebelliousness. Don Black wrote the lyrics and Mare London the music for the title tune, and London wrote both music and lyrics for “Stealing My Love From Me.” “Off and Running” lyrics are by Toni Wine, with music by Carole Bayer. Ben Raleigh wrote the music and Charles Albertine the lyrics of the fourth song. AOYVAUOUU OUT ON DUA EN TAU OEA OOOO EO DEA DEO OE OO TOU OOO AU ED PEATE EAE (Mat 2A; Still No. 15) In "To Sir, With Love, new Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, Sidney Poitier plays a novice teacher in a tough London school who faces the hostility of his students, some of whom are seen above. The James Clavell production is based on a book by E. R. Braithwaite. Clavell wrote the screenplay, produced and directed the film. (Mat IA; Still No. 56) Sidney PPoitier stars as a teacher who proves tough London youngsters can learn manners and responsibility in "To Sir, With Love," new Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. The James Cla vell production is based on a book by E. R. Braithwaite. (Mat 1B; Still No. 70) Suzy Kendall, above, British actress in "To Sir, With Love," plays a new teacher in a tough London school who works with equally-new teacher Sidney Poitier in an effort to reach his hostile students. The Columbia Pictures release in Technicoior is a James Clavell production. (Mat 1D; Still No. 83) Young British recording and television star, ''Lulu'’ (below) appears as one of Sidney Poitiers London school students in "To Sir, With Love," new Columbia Pictures release at the .............. Theatre in Technicolor. The film is a James Clavell production. (Mat IC; Still No. 74) Judy Geeson (left) is one of the featured players appearing in support of Sidney Poitier in James Clavell's production, "To Sir, With Love," a Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. She appears as a student in a tough London school where Poitier serves as a new teacher. UAUUAAUANOOAVOADUAVUADEAOEAOAAU EAU OAUEGOOAO NOU OADOGATOO OAD EO OOO UEO TAO EO TOOT AA TEA TEA EA DEA EN TEA TOAD EAA CAST Sidney Poitier ............ Thackeray Christian Roberts ......... Denham Judy Geeson ...... Pamela Dare Suzy Kendall .................. Gillian The "Mindbenders"... Themselves pi er ng hpraiees Ease are: Barbara Pegg with Ann Bell, Faith Brook, Christopher Chittell, Geoffrey Bayldon, Patricia Routledge, Adrienne Posta, Edward Burnham, Rita Webb, Fiona Duncan, Fred Griffiths, Mona Bruce, Marianne Stone, Dervis Ward, Peter Attard, Sally Cann, Grahame Charles, Albert Lampert, Chitra Neogy, Elna Pearl, Stewart Bevan, Carla Challoner, Joseph Cuby, Lynn Sue Moon, Jane Peach, Gareth Robinson, Michael Des Barres, Margaret Heald, Ellison Kemp, Donita Shawe, Anthony Villaroel, Richard Willson, Sally Gosselin, Kevin Hubbard, Howard Knight, Roger Sheph erd, Stephen Whittaker. men. STORY VAVAUTAUANAVAET NATE ETNATNL (Not for Publication) Thackeray, a young Guyana engineer unable to find work in his profession, takes a job as a teacher in a tough East End of London school where his students are rough and insubordinate. Only Gillian, another newcomer to the school faculty, is willing to try to help him crash through the student hostility. The graduating class — the boys dominated by the older Denham, the girls led by Pamela and Barbara — sets out to destroy Thackeray as they did his predecessor but the noviceteacher, while still seeking a post somewhere as an engineer, treats the students as young adults who soon will enter the adult world where they will stand or fall on their own. He insists on being addressed as "'Sir'' or "Mr. Thackeray"; the girls must be called "Miss," the boys must be treated like Thackeray gradually imparts standards of decency, largely through his own example in difficult situations. The night of the graduation dance, the class presents him with a gift, "To Sir, With Love," and he realizes his job has not yet ended. There will be a new term, and a new class of young adults to be taught. Running Time: 105 Minutes Written for the Screen, Produced and Directed by From the novel by ..........0......... Music by Conducted by Ron Grainer Philip Martell Songs: "To Sir, With Love'— Lyric, Don Black; Music, Mare London "Off and Running'— Lyric, Toni Wine; Music, Carole Bayer "Stealing My Love From Me''— Lyric and Music, Mare London "It's Getting Harder All the Time" — Lyric, Ben Raleigh; Music, Charles Albertine Title Song Arrangement by Mike Leander Director of Photography ...... Paul Beeson, B.S.C. Art Director 2 ee Ae Tony Woollard ESO... iA oe ee Peter Thornton Basil Rayburn CREDITS Assistant Director Ted Sturgis Camera Operator 0.000.000. Harry Gillam Sits AGEN iss 08 is Sass fs eons Dino Di Campo Matistantieditor ../..055..cilaemcis David Campling Sound Recordists ............ Bert Ross, Ted Karnon Set Dresser 64.200 eke lan Whittaker aetna er aes Harvey Woods Continuity. =..2. Guede mee Yvonne Richards Wardrobe Supervisor....... John Wilson Apperson nn Ren REN SE mate imk ALY Jill Carpenter Pleipereaer ei. acasae cieeeoes Betty Glasow Weontage 5 65 sc ais oie George White Montage Stills... Laurie Ridley, Dennis C. Stone Executive Producer .............00..0... John R. Sloan A Columbia Pictures Release Technicolor® Page 15