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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.
- $5,000,000 (US/ Canada)
- Alan J. Pakula
Up the Down Staircase: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White. The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
- (2.4K)
- Drama
- Robert Mulligan
- 1967-06-28
Up the Down Staircase is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published in 1964, which spent 64 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 1967 it was released as a film starring Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton and Eileen Heckart .
- Bel Kaufman
- 340 p. (hardback edition) & 368 p. (paperback edition)
- 1964
- 1964
On her first day at Calvin Coolidge High, fledgling teacher Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis) encounters an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in...
- (22)
- Sandy Dennis
- Robert Mulligan
- Drama
Directed by. Robert Mulligan. ... (directed by) Writing Credits. Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification. Produced by. Alan J. Pakula. ... producer (produced by) Music by. Fred Karlin. ... (music composed by) Cinematography by. Joseph F. Coffey. ... director of photography (as Joseph Coffey) Editing by. Folmar Blangsted. ...
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Up the Down Staircase. Summaries. The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school. 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.
Here, at last, is a film made in America by Americans in which no one is murdered by a cigarette lighter. The film's setting is Calvin Coolidge High School, one of those vast blocks of stone and brick in which our cities educate 3,000 students at a shot.