"To Sir, with Love" the 1967 British feature set in working class London is a strange creature, mouthing all the politically correct stuff (race relations, delinquency, gender, etc) in an irritatingly condescending and righteous manner (Chaplin's Easy Street comes to mind). The down and out neighbourhood, with its rough and tough teens, and the too good to be true do-gooder (the dapper Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray, the accidental schoolteacher) all seem to come out of a much sanitised moral science nightmare. My takeaways - yes, the charming-despite-the-role Sidney Poitier, and the red double-decker bus (Routemaster?) of a kind which was also very popular in Kolkata of the 70s.
(NID, Ahmedabad / 19-11-2013)
(NID, Ahmedabad / 19-11-2013)
