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Release Date: 1967

Cast: Patrick Bedford, María Landa, Elena Karam, Frances Sternhagen, Sorrell Booke, Janice Mars, Eileen Heckart, Florence Stanley, Sandy Dennis, Ruth White, Roy Poole, Jean Stapleton ...MORE

Cast: Patrick Bedford, María Landa, Elena Karam, Frances Sternhagen, Sorrell Booke, Janice Mars, Eileen Heckart, Florence Stanley, Sandy Dennis, Ruth White, Roy Poole, Jean Stapleton, Martha Greenhouse, Candace Culkin, Robert Levine, Vinnette Justine Carroll ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Coming of age, Film adaptation

Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 drama film about the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher played by Sandy Dennis. Tad Mosel wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bel Kaufman. The film's title is a reference to the staircases inside a public, overcrowded New York City high school with a number of troubled students. Sylvia Barrett, fresh out of graduate school, has just been hired to teach English to the teens in this place. Many are undisciplined, a few are hanging with gangs. Not everyone is agreeable with Sylvia's quiet approach to the... MORE

Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 drama film about the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher played by Sandy Dennis. Tad Mosel wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bel Kaufman. The film's title is a reference to the staircases inside a public, overcrowded New York City high school with a number of troubled students. Sylvia Barrett, fresh out of graduate school, has just been hired to teach English to the teens in this place. Many are undisciplined, a few are hanging with gangs. Not everyone is agreeable with Sylvia's quiet approach to the situation, but she intends to get the teens to become good students and get them into real learning. 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? This was her first and only film with producer Alan J. Pakula and director Robert Mulligan. It was filmed in the Benjamin Franklin High School (now renamed the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics) in East Harlem at Haaren High School now housing a building on the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Neighborhood scenes were shot in East LESS