Sidney Poitier

To Sir, with Love (1967)

Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through? Written by Ed Sutton   

              

To Sir With Love - Lulu

Songwriters: BLACK, DON/LONDON, MARK

Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind I know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?
It isn't easy, but I'll try

If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky in letters
That would soar a thousand feet high 'To Sir, With Love'

The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end
And as I leave I know that I am leaving my best friend
A friend who taught me right from wrong and weak from strong
That's a lot to learn, but what can I give you in return?

If you wanted the moon I would try to make a start
But I would rather you let me give my heart 'To Sir, With Love'

在學生時代聽得很多的這首 To Sir with Love, 歌詞很有意思, 若果現在的新生代都聽這類歌曲的話, 相信眾教育官員們也不需傷腦筋去新增甚麼德育課

小時候曾在電視上看過 Sidney Poitier 出演的另一出非常感人的電影, A Patch of Blue, Racism+Sad ending , 到現在還印象清晰, 相比現今的電影, 更有一看再看的價值 

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Storyline

Accidentally blinded by her mother Rose-Ann at the age of five, Selena D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) spends the next 13 years confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with "Ole Pa", Selena's grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), a thoughtful young office worker whose kind-hearted treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to get along in the city. But when the cruel, domineering Rose-Ann learns of their relationship, she forbids her to have anything more to do with him because he is black. Selena continues to meet Gordon despite Rose-Ann's fury, who is determined to end the relationship for good. Written by alfiehitchie  

In this 1965 movie, Shelley plays a racist woman who's blind daughter-Selena D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) starts dating a black man-Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier). The daughter never knows her boyfriend is black untill her prejudiced mother objects.

The moral of the movie is that if you are blind, you cannot tell the difference if someone is black or white. There are good people and bad people in every race.