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'Summer School Teachers' is a 1974 feature film directed and written by Barbara Peeters and starring Candice Rialson. It is about three female friends who all teach at a school over the summer.[http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Summer_School_Teachers 'Summer School Teachers'] at Grindhouse Movie Database

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 coach. 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.


Reception



The film was very popular. Roger Corman attributed this to its strong female liberation statement, which he thought was the strongest of any film made by New World Pictures.Ed. J. Philip di Franco, 'The Movie World of Roger Corman', Chelsea House Publishers, 1979 p 208

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".

'Diabolique' magazine said the film was "feels like a screwball comedy rather than something sleazy. There is nudity... but the women are confident and in control: they do most of the seducing, they stick up for each other and the sisterhood, and the messages are mostly positive girls should be able to do whatever boys can do, physical fitness is good, corruption is bad. This is the best character Rialson ever played."

See also



* List of American films of 1974

References




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