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Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and faculty advisor. He starts to have sex flings with his female students and eventually has to kill several of the ... See full summary » Director:Roger Vadim |
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Ponce de Leon Harper
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Mr. Proffer
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Chief John Poldaski
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Follo
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Grady
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Miss Harriet Craymire
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Jean McDrew
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Aimée Eccles | ... |
Hilda Lee
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JoAnna Cameron | ... |
Yvonne Millick
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Polly
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June Fairchild | ... |
Sonny Swangle
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In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and faculty advisor. He starts to have sex flings with his female students and eventually has to kill several of the girls to keep them quiet. Based on a novel by Francis Pollini. Written by G.W.G.
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A good football coach can get away with murder.Parents Guide:
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12 July 1971 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Querido profesor See more »Filming Locations:
University High School - 11800 Texas Avenue, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Music by Lalo Schifrin
Lyrics by Mike Curb
Performed by The Osmonds
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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. See more »Goofs
When Sunny Swingle records her message for Tiger, the reel of tape is near the end, but when Ponce plays it back, it is near the beginning. See more »Soundtracks
"CHILLY WINDS"Music by Lalo Schifrin
Lyrics by Mike Curb
Performed by The Osmonds
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I don't know why this isn't a cult film. Rock Hudson plays a psychopathic sex killer (a heterosexual one). Angie Dickenson is a substitute teacher who deflowers a teen virgin. Telly Savalas and Keenan Wynn play cops. Roddy McDowell is the the principal. Heck, even Barbara "Vampirella" Leigh and James "Scotty" Doohan have a small roles. Not only that but take a look behind the camera--this movie teams up the French New Wave director who discovered Brigit Bardot with the creator of "Star Trek"! I always suspected that the strange appeal of the latter program for it's very sexually repressed fans was due to the fact that all the girls, human or alien, all wore miniskirts up to their tailbones--well, the Trekkies ought to take a gander at this big screen Rodenberry effort. ("Damnit Captain, that skirt just can't ride up anymore! They can't take it! They're going to blow!")
OK, maybe I shouldn't enjoy a film that spends so much time looking up the skirts of teenage girls, or showing them in nude clinches with Rock Hudson (who plays a VERY progressive guidance counselor and popular football coach), or lying face down dead with a note pinned to the back of their underwear. But only in the early 1970's could a film this completely irresponsible be made, let alone attract such an all-star cast. Not only that, but this film is historically significant in that it is the "missing link" between all the later teen sex comedies where an awkward male virgin (here given the perfect name, "Ponce de Leon")loses his virginity to an older woman, and the teen slasher films where slutty teenage girls pay for their promiscuity with their lives. Of course, this is horribly sexist and hypocritical, but it has clearly been a pattern in teen-oriented comedies and horror movies over the last thirty years. This movie at least seems to be aware of it's own absurd contradictions.
This is not only one of the rare sex comedies that is actually both funny and sexy, but it also adds a strong dose of black comedy into the mix. And the whole thing works wonderfully. Highly recommended.