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Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
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12 July 1971 (Sweden)
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A good football coach can get away with murder.
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In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and faculty advisor. He starts...
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Absolutely Bizarre but Fabulous
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rock Hudson | ... | Michael 'Tiger' McDrew |
 | Angie Dickinson | ... | Miss Betty Smith |
 | Telly Savalas | ... | Captain Sam Surcher |
 | John David Carson | ... | Ponce de Leon Harper |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Mr. Proffer |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Chief John Poldaski |
 | James Doohan | ... | Follo |
| William Campbell | ... | Grady |
| Susan Tolsky | ... | Miss Harriet Craymire |
 | Barbara Leigh | ... | Jean McDrew |
| Gretchen Parsons Carpenter | ... | Marjorie (as Gretchen Burrell) |
| Aimée Eccles | ... | Hilda Lee |
| JoAnna Cameron | ... | Yvonne Millick |
| Margaret Markov | ... | Polly |
| June Fairchild | ... | Sonny Swangle |
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91 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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A young Cybill Shepherd was offered a role as one of the murder victims but turned it down. It would have been her feature debut.
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Continuity: In the overhead shot of Jill Fairbutt's dead body, the note is pinned to her right hip, and her pulled-up skirt is well above the top of her panties. In the closeup where Ponce reaches for the note, it is centered on her hips, and her skirt touches the top of her panties.
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Featured in Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)
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CHILLY WINDS
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A juicy bit of 70s kitsch right here for your viewing pleasure. Rock Hudson as a horny high school coach/guidance counselor who is nailing every girl in sight. This man is so hip, he has arranged the thumb tacks on his cork board into a peace sign. No wonder all the kids love him. Right on, man.
The luscious Angie Dickinson plays a substitute teacher who wears very short skirts and form-fitting sweaters. Not only does she get felt up by Hudson, she also enthusiastically deflowers the gawky teenage male virgin after extolling the virtues of John Milton's "Paradise Lost." Telly Savalas is the state police detective called upon to solve a series of murders of young girls at the high school, the first of which is charmingly named "Jill Fairbutt." No lollipop here. He is sucking on a cigarette, a cancer stick, a coffin nail! Who loves ya, baby? Nice job by Keenan Wynn is the wheezy geezer local sheriff assigned by Savalas to direct traffic after incompetently touching every bit of evidence at the first murder scene. Also by James Doohan ("Scotty" of Star Trek fame) as Savalas' underling. Too bad they couldn't have gotten Shatner to give Hudson a run for his money...
Also heard from is Roddy McDowell, twittery here as the high school principal, whose concern over the murders is limited to characterizing one of them as a "great little cheerleader." He comes complete with prim, nerdy, bespectacled secretary, de rigeur for the 70s.
In what other decade could something be listed as a comedy/crime/ thriller? Only the 70s, my friend. You can also groove to the opening song by the Osmonds, "Chilly Wind," which happens to be sung over Rock Hudson getting it on with a topless honey. Osmonds and boobies - my head just exploded.
If I'm not mistaken, I think I saw a very young Alfre Woodard as one of the students questioned by Savalas. Rock that afro, girl!
What can you expect by combining the directing talents of Roger Vadim and the writing of Gene Roddenberry? If you can ignore the misogyny of every female in this movie being a ditz/victim/sex object/cuckold, then you will enjoy this very of-its-time pre-sex-comedy-era sex comedy. With some murder thrown in. And a bit of mystery. And don't forget the Osmonds.