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Up the Down Staircase is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Mulligan released in USA on 28 june 1967 with Sandy Dennis

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Up the Down Staircase
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Released in USA 28 june 1967
Length 2h3
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating72% 3.644753.644753.644753.644753.64475

Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film about the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher played by Sandy Dennis. Robert Mulligan directed the film and Tad Mosel wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bel Kaufman.

Synopsis

The film's title is a reference to the staircases inside a public, overcrowded New York City high school with a number of troubled students. Sylvia Barrett, fresh out of graduate school, has just been hired to teach English to the teens in this place, who come from various races and ethnicities. Many are undisciplined; a few are hanging with gangs. She is confused at first by the required regulations, daily reporting and other paperwork. Her students also seem continually disruptive and playful. One girl has a crush on a male teacher, and tries to jump out of a window; another appears with a black eye. A boy on court probation, with a high I.Q. but a mixed academic record, tests her patience, while another boy works nights and falls asleep in class. Not everyone is agreeable with Sylvia's quiet approach to the situation, but she intends to get the teens to become good students and get them into real learning. She succeeds finally in getting them into a lively discussion about classic literature, followed by a lively mock trial, before weighing whether to continue or resign from her position.

Actors

Sandy Dennis

(Sylvia Barrett)
Eileen Heckart

(Henrietta Pastorfield)
Jean Stapleton

(Sadie Finch)
Ruth White

(Beatrice Schacter)
Sorrell Booke

(Dr. Bester)
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