1971 - PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW, welcome to the 1970's

A nubile bunch of coeds are dying at Oceanfront High School in California.  A young man who isn't doing well with the teenage girls in his class is about to get an education from substitute teacher Angie Dickinson.   Rock Hudson is the football coach/guidance counselor who is bedding about every other short skirted teenage girl who comes into his office. Finally Telly Savalas basically playing his Kojak detective character is brought in to sort out exactly what is going on at this rather horny high school.  Oh yea, throw in Roddy McDowell and Keenan Wynn and you have this strange AIP studio like sex exploitation film made on a big budget by MGM no less.

 Gene Roddenberry the creator of Star Trek and French director Roger Vadim are responsible for this film if you can call it a film.  Both Roddenberry and Vadim had reputations to put it mildly as men who weren't above exploiting women in front of the camera.  In fact Vadim was quoted as saying the casting of the film was his favorite part of making the film.  Since the film is basically a parade of mini skirted young women you can see where Vadim's interests lie.

 

If anyone comes off decently in this film it's probably Savalas and Roddy McDowell as the clueless principal.  Angie Dickinson was apparently cast as a replacement for Brigitte Bardot.

 

I suppose it goes without saying that this type of film wouldn't be made today but then again can anyone be sure about that nobody went broke underestimating the taste of the movie going public.

 Gene Roddenberry wrote the script and the running time is 95 minutes.