

To Sir, with Love(1967)
Turned-on teens... and the teacher who had to tame them!
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.
Movie: To Sir, with Love
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