Up the Down Staircase

1967

English

7.3

♡ 2

78%

69%

based on novel or book

teacher student relationship

Robert Mulligan Director

Florence Stanley as Ella Friedenberg

Eileen Heckart as Henrietta Pastorfield

Roy Poole as Mr. McHabe

Jean Stapleton as Sadie Finch

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.