{"id":11273,"date":"2015-04-23T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11273"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:14:23","slug":"rebel-pedagogues-part-3-to-sir-with-love-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11273","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Pedagogues, Part 3: To Sir, with Love (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ToSirWithLove_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11278\" alt=\"ToSirWithLove_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ToSirWithLove_poster.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ToSirWithLove_poster.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ToSirWithLove_poster-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> Like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11239\">Conrack<\/a><\/strong> (1973), another entry in the benevolent teacher \/ rebel pedagogue genre, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11272\">To Sir, with Love<\/a><\/strong> (1967) shows the plight of marginalized lower class kids through the eyes of their teacher, a newcomer who becomes both mentor, friend, and paternal figure, and someone who chooses to stick with the tough job because he realizes his determination may give the kids important tools needed to survive in a cruel, class-structured society like 1960s Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Poitier chose to make the film when no one else cared because it was a project that delivered many messages; \u00a0the issue of racial inequality is actually quite low in priority in James Clavell\u2019s script, making the film perhaps more influential (and less dated) than Poitier\u2019s <strong>Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a rare film directed by James Clavell, a writer by trade whose greatest claim to fame remains his epic novels on Asia \u2013 <strong>King Rat<\/strong>, <strong>Nobel House<\/strong>, <strong>Shogun<\/strong>, and <strong>Tai-Pan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boasting a hit song by Don Black and Mark London with ornately arranged harmonics, the film was scored by one of Britain\u2019s underdog composers, Ron Grainer, whose best-known work remains the <strong>Doctor Who<\/strong> theme, but whose extensive C.V.in film and TV remains largely unreleased on CD.<\/p>\n<p>For every rare commercial release \u2013 such as the impeccable <strong>The Omega Man<\/strong> (1971), the punchy <strong>The Prisoner <\/strong>(1967) \u2013 there are many more scores languishing in vaults. It\u2019s lovely his underscore for<strong> To Sir, with Love<\/strong> is isolated in a mono track, but more should be out there on disc, including his playful yet bittersweet <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/h\/2370_Hoffman.htm\" target=\"window\">Hoffman<\/a><\/strong> (1970), the eerie\u00a0<strong>The Caretaker<\/strong> (1963), and John Schlesinger\u2019s short film gem <strong>Terminus<\/strong> (1961).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Twilight Time&#8217;s fully-loaded Blu-ray edition of the classic love-your-teacher film To Sir, with Love (1967).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3618,2562,2563,3619,3006,3620,2372,655,3617],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ToSirWithLove_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2VP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11282,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions\/11282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}