Pretty Maids All in a Row

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1971. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1971 film.

Roger Vadim's followup to "Barbarella" (1956) may be the only sexploitation crime film ever released by a major studio, and managed to break just about every cultural taboo in the book, even during the uncertain days of the early 1970s. The story and especially the filmmaking style is a strange response to the sexual revolution in 1970, in which a high school full of randy teachers and students in an unnamed Midwestern town become involved in a series of murders. Vadim's attempt to update .".And God Created Woman" from the male perspective has become a cult film that would be sued out of existence today, and a fascinating look at the "revolution" from a middle America perspective.

Based on Francis Pollini's 1968 novel. Ocean View High School's resident faculty hero, football coach/guidance counselor "Tiger" McDrew (Hudson, at his greasiest) is married and has a child, but this doesn't keep him from seducing many of his female students, and persuading the new substitute teacher, Miss Smith (Dickinson), to deflower a troubled virgin. Girls start turning up at the school dead, in various states of undress, with cryptic notes pinned to intimate parts of their anatomy. The county sheriff (Keenan Wynn) is forced to defer to a state police investigator (Savalas), who starts nosing around the school.

8 x 10 inches. About Fine condition.

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