The Teacher (1974)

18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, whose husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also... See full summary »

Director:

Howard Avedis

Writer:

Howard Avedis

Stars:

Angel Tompkins, Jay North, Anthony James

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Angel Tompkins	...	Diane Marshall
Jay North	...	Sean Roberts
Anthony James	...	Ralph Gordon
Marlene Schmidt	...	Alice Roberts
Barry Atwater	...	Sheriff Murphy
Med Flory	...	Joe Roberts
Rudy Herrera Jr.	...	Lou Gordon
Quinn O'Hara	...	Margaret Parker
Sivi Aberg	...	Bonnie Nelson
Richard Winterstein	...	Russell Marshall (as Dick Winterstein)
Katherine Cassavetes	...	Gossiping Lady 1 (as Katherine Cassavettes)
Lady Rowlands	...	Gossiping Lady 2 (as Lady Rolands)
Cassandra Lucas	...	Waitress

Storyline

18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, whose husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also has "the hots" for Diane; and it doesn't help that Sean was with Ralph's younger brother, Lou, when Lou died.

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Plot Keywords:

teacher | female nudity | no panties | female removes her dress | shower | 

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Taglines:

After School ... Her Lessons Began With Sex and Ended in Violence.

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Genres:

Drama | Crime

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Certificate:

R

Details

Official Sites:

Crown International Pictures

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 May 1974 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Seductress

Company Credits

Production Co:

Crown International Pictures, Hickmar Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

During the pool scene at Sean's house, when he is pushed into the pool, water splashes onto the camera lens. For the rest of the shot, it is apparent when focus on the lens is changed because the drops rotate around the center of the shot.

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Quotes

Diane Marshall: [Angel Tompkins' sexy teacher character: Diane invites reluctant student/virgin , Sean; played by Jay North into her house] Well, come on in a minute... I'm not gonna rape you.

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Connections

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 8 (2002)

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Soundtracks

"The Teacher"
Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

User Reviews

Cougar Prowls The Halls

Now if you just want to see some really nice shots of Angel Tompkins's bosoms than The Teacher is definitely your kind of film. It's barely half a step above soft core porn when she and Jay North get down to the deed.

I'm sure Jay North was seeing this as some kind of comeback film for him after Dennis The Menace and Maya where he could finally establish himself as an adult star. And what better way than to finally have some screen sex with an older woman.

But the acting in this film was some of the worst ever put on celluloid and the photography looked like it was shot with my father's old Bell&Howell movie camera.

Angel's is a 28 year old high school teacher on her summer vacation with the rest of her peers and she's also a neighbor of one of her recently graduated students, Jay North. Her husband has up and left her both miserable and horny. She lights on North and the two of them go at it hot and heavy.

Not that North hasn't noticed here, but so has creepy Anthony James. He spies on her occasionally from his crib in an abandoned warehouse. One day North and friend Rudy Herrera who is James's younger brother go up to the crib to take a gander for themselves and James spots them, while fleeing Herrera falls off a catwalk and James in his twisted sociopathic logic holds North responsible. Both for the death of his brother and the fact he has taken up with the object of his voyeurism.

Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster wrote a truly insipid song for this film and it saddens me that two Oscar winning songwriters got reduced to this in order to find work in Hollywood.

It all ends badly for the protagonists as Angel the cougar learns the error of her ways.

For fans of Angel Tompkins's bosoms only.