Up the Down Staircase

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

• Tad MoselScreenplay
• Robert MulliganDirector
• Fred KarlinOriginal Music Composer

• Sandy DennisSylvia Barrett
• Patrick BedfordPaul Barringer
• Eileen HeckartHenrietta Pastorfield
• Ruth WhiteBeatrice Schacter
• Jean StapletonSadie Finch
• Sorrell BookeDr. Bester
• Roy PooleMr. McHabe
• Florence StanleyEllen Friedenberg
• Ellen O'MaraAlice Blake
• Jeff HowardJoe Ferone
• Vinnette CarrollThe Mother
• Martha GreenhouseMrs. Kagan