Up the Down Staircase (film)

Up the Down Staircase
DVD cover
Directed byRobert Mulligan
Screenplay byTad Mosel
Based onUp the Down Staircase
1965 novel
by Bel Kaufman
Produced byAlan J. Pakula
StarringSandy Dennis
Patrick Bedford
Eileen Heckart
Jean Stapleton
CinematographyJoseph F. Coffey
Edited byFolmar Blangsted
Music byFred Karlin
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • June 28, 1967 (1967-06-28)
Running time
124 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$5,000,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Oscar winners Sandy Dennis and Eileen Heckart, along with Patrick Bedford and Jean Stapleton. The plot concerns the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher. Tad Mosel wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bel Kaufman. This was one of two last films, along with The Family Way, released by Warner Bros. Pictures before the company was rebranded as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in July 1967.

  1. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.

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