Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

7.1/10   

Regisseur:

Robert Mulligan

Drehbuchautoren:

Bel Kaufman (novel)
Tad Mosel (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

19. Juli 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

Simple words that start a war: "Good morning. My name is Miss Barrett. I am your Home Room teacher..."

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Slum | Culture Clash | Seduction | Education | Suicide

Auszeichnungen:

1 win & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Best Teacher Film

Besetzung

Sandy Dennis	...	Sylvia Barrett
Patrick Bedford	...	Paul Barringer
Eileen Heckart	...	Henrietta Pastorfield
Ruth White	...	Beatrice Schacter
Jean Stapleton	...	Sadie Finch
Sorrell Booke	...	Dr. Bestor
Roy Poole	...	James J. Mc Habe
Florence Stanley	...	Ella Friedenberg
Vinnette Carroll	...	The Mother
Janice Mars	...	Miss Gordon
Loretta Leversee	...	Social Studies Teacher
John Callahan
Denis Fay
Otto Lomax
Martha Greenhouse	...	Albert Kagan

Alternativ:

Gegen den Strom die Treppe hinauf (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

USA:124 Min

Land:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11

Drehorte:

El Barrio, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Firma:

Park Place Production

Dies und das:

Like Dangerous Minds (1995) 28 years later, this movie was filmed in a real-life urban high school building, using real high school kids from the neighborhood as extras, many of whom were believed to be armed on the set.

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: During the opening montage establishing the first day of school in September in a New York high school, several shots were obviously filmed in dead of winter with extras in heavy coats, gray skies, etc. contrasting wildly with scenes of sunny skies and lightweight costumes of main characters.

Dialogzitate:

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...

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in "The Replacements: Hollywoodn't (#3.11)" (2008)

Best Teacher Film

Rivals "To Sir, With Love" (released around the same time) as the best teacher film of all time. The difference: Sandy Dennis.

Dennis was one of those actors they don't make anymore (or at least don't showcase in Hollywood in 2007). She was strange, quirky, not conventionally pretty and she had that quality a lot of new female teachers have-that deer in the headlights look that makes the viewer root for her to make it "work" with those tough students.

The story is strong with some good subplots with the troubled students. It is dated but I would say the same issues facing Dennis here face contemporary teachers.

I take Dennis to Robin Williams in "Dead Poets Society" anyday.