Where to Watch Up the Down Staircase (1967) in the UK

What it's about

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 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?

Cast and crew

Director

Robert Mulligan

Writer

Bel Kaufman, Tad Mosel

Starring

Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart

Details

Release date

Jun 28, 1967

Language

English

Country

United States

Awards

1 win & 4 nominations total

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