Pretty Maids All in a Row

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Pretty Maids All in a Row
Directed by Roger Vadim
Produced by Gene Roddenberry
Written by Francis Pollini (novel)
Gene Roddenberry
Starring Rock Hudson
Angie Dickinson
Telly Savalas
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography Charles Rosher Jr.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) 1971
Running time 91 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
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Pretty Maids All in a Row is an MGM American comedy film released in 1971, directed and produced by Roger Vadim with screenplay written by Gene Roddenberry based on the novel by Francis Pollini. It is most famous for its sexual content, its 60's "free love message," and The Pretty Maids, the female, sexually provocative high school students who populate this slightly-above-Grade-B sex romp.

[edit] Plot

The film is set in "Ocean Side High School", a fictitious American High School in the height of the sexual revolution. The movie is notorious, for the time (1971), for its sexual content in the form of the young female high school students who are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. The film centers around the sexual frustrations of Ponce, a male student who is surrounded by an a seemingly unending stream of beautiful and sexually provocative female students.

The film's other star, Michael 'Tiger' McDrew, is played by Rock Hudson. Tiger is the high school's football coach and guidance counselor. Early in the movie the audience is introduced to another aspect of Hudson's chartacter; he is quite fond of sexual encounters with young, attractive female students in the school. Tiger befriends Ponce and tries to help Ponce deal with his sexual frustrations by encouraging him to seek the affections of a substitute teacher, Miss Smith, played by Angie Dickinson.

In the course of the movie, one pretty maid after another turns up dead. A police detective captain, Sam Surcher (Telly Savalas) investigates the deaths but never makes an arrest. Tiger is suspected, but never caught red-handed. At the end of the film, we learn that Tiger has moved to Brazil.

[edit] Primary cast

The Pretty Maids:

  • Brenda Sykes: Pamela Wilcox
  • Joy Bang: Rita
  • Gretchen Burrell: Marjorie
  • JoAnna Cameron: Yvonne Millick
  • Amy Eccles: Hilda Lee
  • June Fairchild: Sonny Swangle
  • Margaret Markov: Polly
  • Diane Sherry: Sheryl



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