KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

phasetrek Perhaps when this film came out, it was considered "funny" by some people. But it wasn't funny to me then and it's not funny to me now.(What follows should be considered a spoiler.)Pedophilia is nothing to laugh about. And murder to cover up pedophilia is even less funny. But the real tragedy of this film is the teacher's wife ... knowing that her husband had sex with teenage girls, knowing he'd committed murder to cover it up, and then "going along" with him faking his own death so she could rejoin him in his Brazilian hideaway as if nothing had happened.It saddens me that a writer like Gene Roddenberry would pen such a disgusting screenplay and that actors like Rock Hudson, Angie Dickenson, Telly Savalas, and James Doohan would even associate themselves with such a film project.

utgard14 Black comedy about sex and murder at a high school. Guidance counselor Tiger McDrew (Rock Hudson) is banging many of the female students while also trying to help horny virgin Ponce de Leon Harper (John David Carson) get lucky with a hot new teacher (Angie Dickinson). Meanwhile Police Captain Sam Surcher (Telly Savalas) investigates a series of killings at the school.Fun, sexy, and cheesy in the best way. The cast is great. Lots of pretty girls, with of course sexy MILF Dickinson the standout. The script, by Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame, is smart and Roger Vadim's direction is good (in his first American film). Perhaps not for all tastes and definitely not for those who take everything seriously. If you enjoy some political incorrectness in your movies, you should have no problem enjoying this.

wes-connors On his way to Southern California's "Oceanfront High School", 17-year-old Los Angeles senior John David Carson (as Ponce de Leon Harper) can't escape the constant barrage of sexy girls in tight shirts, shorts and mini-skirts. When horny substitute teacher Angie Dickinson (as Betty Smith) sticks her butt in his face and rubs her breasts on him, Mr. Carson has to run for relief in the boys' lavatory. There, he discovers the dead body of a shapely cheerleader with a farewell note on her panties. This is the start of a serial murder spree at the high school. Meanwhile, guidance counselor and football coach Rock Hudson (as Michael "Tiger" McDrew) is copulating – he takes willing girls into his office and turns on the "Testing" light...Carson is the water-boy for Mr. Hudson's football team and asks his coach for advice about sex. We're not privy to exactly why Carson, an attractive guy, is unable to find an interested partner. His haircut is funny, but certainly not a deal breaker. Hudson decides to help Carson by setting him up with Ms. Dickinson. Pretty in pink, she nips the problem in the bud. Meanwhile, Hudson continues to bed beautiful young women as bald detective Telly Savalas (as Sam Surcher) investigates their murders. He, Hudson and Dickinson went on to star in successful 1970s TV series ("Kojak", "McMillan & Wife" and "Police Woman") in spite of this trash. This film was brought to you by producer-writer Gene Roddenberry and director Roger Vadim. Their "Pretty Maids All in a Row" does not boldly go where no man has gone before – but, it has charms...The highlight of this film is Mr. Vadim and Charles Rosher's arousing photography of young woman in and out of their clothing. The soft core antics of an admirable cast and what looks like dozens of casting couch cuties has no real substance – at least, not in this telling. The visual candy makes up for a silly story. The best shots are of the girls showing off their upper thighs and panties. Those who always knew "Here Comes the Brides" downer Susan Tolsky was secretly hot will see proof. While older than the others, Dickinson more than holds her own. Other than that, it's just strange to see this cast and crew team up – as a stupefying bonus, you get The Osmonds' chirping theme song "Chilly Winds" (a non-hit B-Side).***** Pretty Maids All in a Row (4/28/71) Roger Vadim ~ Rock Hudson, John David Carson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas

inspectors71 I am mildly fond of Pretty Maids All In a Row not because it is chock full of T and A, a veritable smörgåsbord of ditsy, horny girls wearing those wonderful mini-skirts from the early seventies, but because it's a visually pleasing movie for non-prurient reasons. The review on the main page is more than adequate to give you a cinematic and historical overview of the movie (kudos to krorie!). I like the movie because it somehow captures what's best about the California southland. The movie's images, its cinematography show the sort of comfortable warmth that I enjoyed when I lived there almost twenty years ago.Sure, it's a sex movie, and whether or not it's a really stupid one is up to the viewer, but the story of Rock Hudson's counselor coach humping the female student body of a California high school is deeply offensive, unless you concentrate on whatever hackneyed social commentary Gene Roddenberry was trying to put forth. Wow! Now there's a choice.Stripped down to its knickers, PMAIAR is the sort of stupid, dirty, and watchable movie that inhabited the drive-in screens of this country three and a half decades ago.There's enough shock value in this movie to give you a shuddering case of the guffaws; Roddenberry and director Roger Vadim must have figured that adults screwing children (albeit children who look like they're in their mid-twenties) was the height of cinematic daring. I remember seeing this flick with a friend who kept saying, "This has got to be a junior college, not a high school!" Nope. Sorry. Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson spend much of the movie doing what would get normal mortals branded "pedophile." Then again, if you just put the obvious sniggering, Penthouse Forum claptrap out of your mind and concentrate on the visual aspects, I guess you might be able to make it through to the ending credits. Rock looks great in mod hair and mustache, Angie is all legs and that little thing she does pushing wisps of hair out of her face (or is that Helen Hunt?), the girls look as if they left the set to immediately run over to the Playboy Mansion for a photo shoot, and the strong secondary cast of Telly Savalas, James Doohan, and Roddy McDowall, although looking somewhat pained for signing their contracts, make Pretty Maids All In a Row just serious enough for you not to do what I did when I rented a mainstream movie and found a Allysa Milano B movie in it by accident.Run it through to the good parts, then return it for a refund.