Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
1967-06-28
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (28)
Laufzeit
2 Std. 4 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Robert Mulligan

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: Up the Down Staircase
  • Gedreht in: New York City

Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Oscar winners Sandy Dennis and Eileen Heckart, along with Patrick 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, Inc. before a merger that led to Warner Bros.-Seven Arts branding in July 1967.

Production

Sandy Dennis took the role of Sylvia Barrett after winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The film was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival, at which Dennis won the award for Best Actress.

Outdoor street scenes were filmed on 1st Ave. and East 100th Street in East Harlem. The outdoor school scenes were filmed on the same block at Julia de Burgos Junior High School 99 at 410 East 100th St. (now the Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation). Some indoor school and classroom scenes were filmed at the former Haaren High School on 59th St. and 10th Ave.

Filming took place during the summer of 1966 during a record-breaking heat wave in New York City. Outdoor scenes depicting snowstorms were actually filmed while the temperature was as high as 95 °F.

The actors portraying the students were non-professionals, and most were high-school students themselves. Jeff Howard, 20 years old, was a Long Island University student. Jose Rodriguez, the quiet student who blossoms during the trial sequence, was a 17-year-old student at the New York School of Printing, now the High School of Graphic Communication Arts.

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