Summer School Teachers
| Summer School Teachers | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Barbara Peeters |
| Produced by | Julie Corman |
| Written by | Barbara Peeters |
| Starring | Candice Rialson |
| Music by | J.J. Jackson |
| Cinematography | Eric Saarinen |
| Edited by | Barbara Pokras |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 85 mins |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.2 million[1] |
Summer School Teachers is a 1974 feature film from writer-director Barbara Peeters starring Candice Rialson. It is about three female friends who all teach at a school over the summer.[2]
It was an unofficial follow up to The Student Teachers (1973).
Plot
Three friends from Iowa go to California for the summer, rent an apartment together and teach at the same high school. PE teacher Conklin (Candice Rialson) coaches an all-girl football team despite the opposition of the resident coach (Dick Miller), and romances one of the male teachers. Sally (Pat Anderson) teaches photography and despite being engaged to a man back home, has affairs with an eccentric rock star with a food fetish, and with a male chauvinist teacher who talks her into posing nude for some photos. Chemistry teacher Denise (Rhonda Leigh Hopkins) becomes involved with one of her students, a juvenile delinquent, who is falsely accused of participating in car stealing. Conklin uncovers that funds for sport are being misspent by the school coach (Dick Miller). Both she and Sally are suspended but all ends happily with the girl football team triumphant.
Cast
- Candice Rialson as Conklin
- Pat Anderson as Sally
- Rhonda Leigh Hopkins as Denise
- Will Carney as Jeremy
- Grainger Hines as Bob
- Christopher Barrett as Jeff
- Dick Miller as Sam
- Vince Barnett as Principal Adams
- Norman Bartold as Agwin
- Michael Greer as John John Lacey
- Barbara Pell as Janice
- Ka-Ron Sowell Brown as Jessie
- Merie Earle as Ethel
- Cecil Elliott as Freida
- John Kerry as Hiram
Production
Peeters enjoyed working for Roger Corman:
He is always available and he doesn't hire you unless he trusts you. As long as you open big and close big and try to resolve three stories in the end, Roger lets you do what you want. Just be sure you put in either a sex scene or an action sequence every 15 minutes.[1]
Reception
The film was very popular. Roger Corman attributed this to the movie's strong female liberation statement, which he thought was the strongest of any film made by New World Pictures.[3]
The Los Angeles Times called it "an entertaining and breezy exploitation film... even though she operates on a very superficial level, screenwriter Peeters deals with real issues like the danger of labelling people or the trauma of teacher-student romance. As a director, Peeters excels in zany slapstick".[4]
See also
References
- 1 2 A Woman's Place Is in... Exploitation Films?: A Trend-Setter in the Youth Market Women in Exploitation Films Gross, Linda. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 12 Feb 1978: p34.
- ↑ Summer School Teachers at Grindhouse Movie Database
- ↑ Ed. J. Philip di Franco, The Movie World of Roger Corman, Chelsea House Publishers, 1979 p 208
- ↑ A Parlay of ERA, Sex and Football Gross, Linda. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 29 Apr 1977: g19.