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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
IN THE OUT EXIT
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE (1967)
dir: Robert Mulligan
IN THE OUT EXIT
MAD #118, January 1968
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
The film is called that because the teacher the movie focuses on, Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis), enters the school the wrong way on her first day. She's immediately burdened with forms and regulations by the front officer (Jean Stapleton) and is inexperienced dealing with the problem children of her classroom.
The bottom panel has James Franciscus as Mr. Novak and Sidney Poitier from To Sir, With Love, two other actors from the “cool teacher” genre prevalent in the sixties.
Miss Barrett makes friends with the other teachers during lunch, such as Henrietta Pastorfield (Eileen Eckhardt) and the principal Dr. Bester (Sorrell Booke). Mr. McHabe (Roy Poole), brings in Joe Ferone (Jeff Howard), a truant under-achieving delinquent.
Paul Berringer (Patrick Bedford) is a teacher that hits on Miss Barrett. She has a student who's abused at home who she takes to the nurse, who isn't allowed to touch the students.
Miss Barrett sees potential in Joe Ferone and tries to get through to him but he only pulls weapons on her, and she later looks up his school record.
Alice (Ellen O'Mara) is a student in love with Mr. Barringer and tries to express it through a poem, but he only corrects her grammar, so she jumps out a window. Miss Barrett has an open house and Joe is the only one to show up without parents.
Joe tries to move in on Miss Barrett after all the parents leave but she rebuffs him and the incident scares her into resigning after the semester ends. After continuing and finding she changed the lives of the rest of her students, she decides to stay after all.
In the background of page 3, panel 5, is Sam Levenson, a genial stand-up comic who used his experiences as a public schoolteacher as the basis for his act. Also there's Poitier again, and the principal from Mr. Novak.
In the background of page 3, panel 5, is Sam Levenson, a genial stand-up comic who used his experiences as a public schoolteacher as the basis for his act. Also there's Poitier again, and the principal from Mr. Novak.
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