Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Simple words that start a war: "Good morning. My name is Miss Barrett. I am your Home Room teacher..."
124 min
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
- Release date
- June 28, 1967
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Patrick Bedford as Paul Barringer
- Sandy Dennis as Sylvia Barrett
- Eileen Heckart as Henrietta Pastorfield
- Ruth White as Beatrice Schacter
- Jean Stapleton as Sadie Finch
- Sorrell Booke as Dr. Bester
- Roy Poole as Mr. McHabe
- Florence Stanley as Ella Friedenberg
- Vinnette Carroll as The Mother
- Janice Mars as Miss Gordon
Crew
- Robert Mulligan · Director
- Bel Kaufman · Writer
- Tad Mosel · Writer
- Alan J. Pakula · Producer
- Fred Karlin · Composer
- Joseph F. Coffey · Cinematographer
- Folmar Blangsted · Editor