Up the Down Staircase

Name: Up the Down Staircase
Genre: Drama
Released: 1967-06-28
Duration: 2 h 4 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart

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7.3/10

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Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase (1967)

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Drama

The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

2.8K

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

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Trivia
The U.S. State Department submitted this film to the 1967 Moscow Film Festival, in order to contradict Soviet propaganda, which implied that all American schools were racially segregated.

Goofs
In the classroom scene where Harry A Kagan is talking, his necktie alternates between being tucked into the belt and in front of the belt.

Quotes
Paul Barringer: They say a writer should stick to what he knows. What nonsense. What did Dickens know about French Revolutions? What did Shakespeare know about Moors in Venice? If he stuck to what he knew, we'd have no Othello, we'd have no Alice in Wonderland, we'd have no Treasure Island. You brats think that I and Miss Barrett stand up there day after day, talking about books, and the writing of books, just for the hell of it? You think it's got nothing to do with YOU? A writer creates a book. And individual creates a life. For a writer to create a masterpiece, he's got to think beyond what he knows. For an individual to create a life, even a half-way decent one, he's gotta go beyond what he knows. Go beyond the poverty, the dope the disease, the degeneracy. Go beyond the oceans to the alps... a magnificent replica of which the board of education has generously donated. Stick with what you think, and that's what you're gonna be stuck with. You may as well get out. Now! All of you... Miss Barrett's class dismissed. All of you dismissed for the rest of your crummy lives. Some of you prefer to leave by the window. I prefer to leave by the door. Punch me out. Will ya, Teach?