Up the Down Staircase(Movie, 1967)

Name: Up the Down Staircase
Genre: Drama
Released: 1967
Duration: T02:4:00
Rating: 3.6

| 2h 4min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Oscar winners Sandy Dennis and Eileen Heckart, along withPatrick Bedford and Jean Stapleton. The plot concerns the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher. Tad Mosel wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bel Kaufman. This was one of two last films, along with The Family Way, released by Warner Bros. Pictures before the company was rebranded as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in July 1967. ()

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About Up the Down Staircase

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New York City (NYC)

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Based on: "Up the Down Staircase" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Park Place Production

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 06/28/1967

Cast: Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Jean Stapleton, Ruth White, Sorrell Booke, Roy Poole

Creator: Robert Mulligan

Director: Robert Mulligan

Producer: Alan J. Pakula

Screenwriter: Bel Kaufman

Film Editor: Folmar Blangsted

Composer: Fred Karlin

Costume designer: Ann Roth

Keywords: high school, high school teacher, new york city, based on novel or book, teacher, schoolteacher, english teacher

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