Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Simple words that start a war: "Good morning. My name is Miss Barrett. I am your Home Room teacher..."
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.
- Date of release
- 1967-06-28
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (28)
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Robert Mulligan
Casting
- Sandy Dennis — Sylvia Barrett
- Patrick Bedford — Paul Barringer
- Eileen Heckart — Henrietta Pastorfield
- Ruth White — Beatrice Schacter
- Jean Stapleton — Sadie Finch
- Sorrell Booke — Dr. Bester
- Roy Poole — Mr. McHabe
- Florence Stanley — Ellen Friedenberg
- Ellen O'Mara — Alice Blake
- Jeff Howard — Joe Ferone
- Vinnette Carroll — The Mother
- Martha Greenhouse — Mrs. Kagan
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