Up the Down Staircase torrent

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.


Cast

Sandy Dennis as Sylvia Barrett
Patrick Bedford as Paul Barringer
Eileen Heckart as Henrietta Pastorfield
Ruth White as Beatrice Schachter
Jean Stapleton as Sadie Finch
Sorrell Booke as Dr Bester
Roy Poole as Mr McHabe
Florence Stanley as Ella Friedenberg
Vinnette Carroll as The Mother
Janice Mars as Miss Gordon
Loretta Leversee as Social Studies Teacher



Directed by Robert Mulligan
Produced by Robert Mulligan
Alan J. Pakula
Written by Bel Kaufman (novel)
Tad Mosel
Starring Sandy Dennis
Patrick Bedford
Eileen Heckart
Jean Stapleton
Music by Fred Karlin
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) July 19, 1967
Running time 124 minutes
Country United States
Language English