This week the DVD Savant has taken a short vacation, but still had time to write up a couple of reviews including: Up the Down Staircase - Sandy Dennis is delightful, and so is everybody else in Robert Mulligan's insightful bestseller adaptation. Fall semester at Grover Cleveland High is a nightmare for new teacher Sylvia Barrett ... the chaos in her classroom won't let her get any teaching done.; The Day of the Triffids - This English miniseries adaptation is short on scares but faithful to the literary values of John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic tale. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.