To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:26pm

I remember loving these movies.
Did you?

[bythesword84]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:30pm

I remember my mother making me watch To Sir With Love when I was little, it's one of her favorites.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:31pm

What are they about?

[Don't hurt me...its before my time]

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:32pm

School teachers who break through to their students.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:34pm

I never saw To Sir With Love - but I did love Up the Down Staircase. We rented Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean last week and loved Sandy Dennis in it - she is SO strange on film- and yet she compells you to watch her!

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:36pm

You like Altman films?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:37pm

Both are favorites of mine -- 60's school dramas starring two great actors: Sidney Poitier and Sandy Dennis, respectively. Add "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" with Maggie Smith (recently out on DVD) and you have a great triple feature.

Priest, check out IMDB for the plot synopses. All three feature terrific performances (Dame Maggie got her first Oscar for "Brodie") and great screenplays (and "Sir" has Lulu singing the title song). I love them all.

Updated On: 9/13/04 at 07:37 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:38pm

Also love the BBC Jean Brodie with Dorothy Tutin.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:39pm

Oh, are these Altman?

The only two Altman films I have seen (that i remember) are GODSFORD PARK and THE LONG GOODBYE.

Both of which were brilliant and I adored.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:40pm

I wish I could have seen Zoe Caldwell, who got the Tony as the original Broadway Jean Brodie (Caldwell is one of my all-time favorites).

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:41pm

sidney poitier happens to be my favorite actor and i love "to sir, with love", great title song sung by Lulu and Judy Geeson isn't bad on the eyes. saw "up the down staircase" a long time ago with sandy dennis...this was good, along with "the prime of miss jean brodie" which i saw on cable a long time ago. speaking of movies with troubled youths does anyone here remember "the cross and the switchblade"? starring pat boone and a very young erik estrada?

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:43pm

Sorry Priest we're jumping around a bit. Sir and Staircase are not Altman films. :)

Marquise do you love Lilies of the Field? I cry like a baby when I watch it.

I LOVE OLD MOVIES!

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:44pm

yeah i love lillies of the field. poitier's a master!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:45pm

"They call me MISTER TIBBS!"

I just loved him slapping Rod Steiger in "In The Heat of the Night."

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:56pm

yes! yes! yes! that is a classic scene.

anyone here see "PARIS BLUES"
this one was about jazz musicians and starred Poitier along with PAUL NEWMAN, JOANNE WOODWARD and DIAHANN CARROLL.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:58pm

Gotta check that one out as I love me some Diahann Carroll.

What about Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:10pm

I'm seeing "On Golden Pond" with Carroll and James Earl Jones in a few weeks -- should be fun to see them together again (remember "Claudine"?). I saw Jones so many times growing up, I should start a Jones Appreciation thread (I think I will).

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:13pm

Yes, that's a good one but it's sort of a cop out because you rarely see him and his white fiancee really kiss and show some real affection to each other, except near the end and then its seen through a rear view mirror! Tracy and Hepburn...goes without saying but he was fortunate to share the screen with those legends. the man has had an incredible career.

Let us not forget:

A RAISIN IN THE SUN
THE DEFIANT ONES

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:15pm

Margo, I just purchased Claudine on DVD about 2 weeks ago. Carroll received an Oscar nomination for that! Awesome soundtrack to that movie too!

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:16pm

Wish I had seen her in SUNSET BLVD. I've heard the sound track and she is gorgeous.

Love her on The Judy Garland Show too.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:28pm

Tracy is the real star of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (I believe he died just weeks after completing it). His last, epic speech is a master class in simple, unaffected film acting -- simply heartbreaking (it makes me tear up). Everyone else (except for Hepburn's neice Katharine Houghton) is also very good (especially Beah Richards), but they're pulled down by the safe, well-intentioned but formulaic screenplay.

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:34pm

Oh, Katherine Houghton was Katherine Hepburn's niece? I had no idea. Whatever happened to her?

[MusicMan]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:02pm

It's been rumored for decades that Katharine Houghton, ostensibly Hepburn's niece, is actually Hepburn's love child vis-a-vis Tracy.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:03pm

Adored BOTH of those movies - and still belt the theme song T'o Sir With Love' whenever I'm with my old roommates...it was one of our favorites.

Great memories, thanks!

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:05pm

To Sir With Love one of my mom's favorites too, Sword. She made me watch it with her and I actually enjoyed it thoroughly.