Up The Down Staircase

1967 • 123 minutes

About this movie

A young, energetic and idealist teacher starts her first semester in a large metropolitan high school, rudely awakened to the differences between ideals and reality by the students and the school's methods. Her spirit almost broken, she receives assistance from an unexpected source that helps her win a victory. Starring Oscar winner Sandy Dennis ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"). MPAA Rating: NOTRATED (c) 1967 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

What a shame! How to hide gruesome behind saccharine!

The remastering is perfection. Of course the story is still relevant.

I watch this movie when I really need and miss my mother... R.I.P. Linda Hedgepeth