Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier reprises his role of Mark Thackeray. After retiring from thirty years of teaching in London, he returns to Chicago only to come out of retirement to take on the new challenge of teaching another classroom of misfits. This sequel does not pack the punch of the original, but is interesting if not predictable. Judy Geeson and Lulu reprise their original roles to send off their favorite teacher to America. Also in the cast are:Daniel J. Travanti, John Beasley, Dana Eskelson and Christian Payton. Kudos to famed director Peter Bogdanovich.