Up the Down Staircase
Year: 1967
Runtime: 124 mins
Language: English
Director: Robert Mulligan
Sylvia Barrett, a new English teacher, enters a high‑school with a weary faculty, unruly students and an administration buried in endless paperwork. Her upbeat greeting—“Good morning, I’m Miss Barrett, your homeroom teacher”—sparks a battle of wills as she struggles to reach the most troubled pupils, while school indifference deepens each day.
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