Up the Down Staircase
- Original title
- Up the Down Staircase
- Year
- 1967
- Running time
- 124 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Tad Mosel. Novel: Bel Kaufman
- Cast
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- Sandy Dennis
- Eileen Heckart
- Jean Stapleton
- Patrick Bedford
- Ruth White
- Sorrell Booke
- Robert Levine
- Bud Cort
- Roy Poole
- Florence Stanley
- Loretta Leversee
- Frances Sternhagen
- Ellen O'Mara
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
Park Place Production. Distributor: Warner Bros.- Genre
- Drama | Education
- Synopsis
- 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 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?
- Awards
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1967: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Drama Screenplay1967: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Supporting Actress.
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