Summer School Teachers
1974 film by Barbara Peeters
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.
The film was an unofficial follow up to The Student Teachers (1973) which was in turn inspired by the success of "nurse" movies such as The Student Nurses (1970).
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 coaches an all-girl football team despite the opposition of the resident coach, and romances one of the male teachers. Sally 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 becomes involved with one of her students, a juvenile delinquent, who is falsely accused of participating in car stealing. Conklin finds out that funds for sport are being misspent by the coach. She and Sally are both suspended, but all ends happily with the all-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
Barbara Peeters had worked for a number of years at New World Pictures in various capacities, notably second unit directing, and asked Roger Corman when she was going to get the chance to direct her own movie.
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