Summer School Teachers (1974)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Barbara Peters

Writer:

Barbara Peters (writer)

Release Date:

1 August 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

The Student Body Always Scores With "Summer School Teachers"

Plot:

Candice Rialson, Pat Anderson |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | High School | Independent Film

Cast

Candice Rialson	...	Conklin T.
Pat Anderson	...	Sally Hanson
Rhonda Leigh Hopkins	...	Denise Carter
Will Carney	...	Jeremy
Grainger Hines	...	Bob
Christopher Barrett	...	Jeff
Dick Miller	...	Sam
Vince Barnett	...	Principal Adams
Norman Bartold	...	Agwin
Michael Greer	...	John John Lacey
Barbara Deil	...	Janice
Ka-Ron Sowell Brown	...	Jessie
Merie Earle	...	Ethel
Cecil Elliott	...	Frieda
John Kerry	...	Hiram

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

New World Pictures

Trivia:

Contains scene shot at the Pussycat Theater, Hollywood's premiere porn venue.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes' (2003) (V)

An amiably inane and immaterial 70's drive-in romp

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A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School. Perky, willful Candice ("Hollywood Boulevard," "Chatterbox!") Rialson starts up and coaches an all-female football team; she also becomes romantically involved with gawky, but amicable fellow student teacher Christopher Barrett. Stuffy Bible banging chemistry teacher Pat ("T.N.T. Jackson") Anderson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for surly juvenile delinquent Will Carney. Pert, liberated photography instructor Rhonda Leigh ("Cover Girl Models") Hopkins has sex with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent, understanding guy.

This thoroughly inane, amiable, episodic and animated New World Pictures comedic teen sexploitation item sizes up as a hugely enjoyable outing: writer/director Barbara ("Humanoids from the Deep") Peeters keeps the pace quite zippy and the tone suitably lighthearted throughout, the ceaseless barrage of jokes about breasts, buttocks, fat guys, uptight high school authority figures, sex (of course), dirty little old lady peeping toms, dorky middle-aged dudes on the make, and gross macho bozos are very crude, but still pretty funny, the expected romantic interludes are surprisingly tasteful and erotic, the Los Angeles strip club footage is authentically tacky, the sappy bleeding heart "let's give the kids a chance" posturing never becomes too icky-cute, the feminist subtext is slight, yet sincere, there's a reasonably decent automobile chase and a nice subplot about a stolen car ring, and the climactic women only football game manages to be really amusing, if nothing too spectacular. Moreover, the always dependable Dick Miller cuts loose with a riotously hammy performance as a crooked, sexist, vulgar macho swine football coach, the three female leads are sexy, lively and appealing, Eric ("The Hills Have Eyes") Saarinen's handsome, agile cinematography provides lots of lovely, gorgeously lit visuals, and J.J. Jackson's bouncy, ebullient score will plant a mile-wide smile on your face that you won't take off for a week. Now, what more could you possibly want from a blissfully insubstantial, but infectiously effervescent and entertaining goofball time-waster?