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The Teacher |  | Director: Hikmet Avedis
Actors: Marlene Schmidt, Anthony James
Studio: Westlake
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 105655
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WLV2001
UPC: 798622020017
EAN: 0798622020017
ASIN: B000066TGN
Theatrical Release Date: May 1974
Release Date: May 1, 2002
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Awful! Awesome! Awful and Awesome! January 15, 2010
Muzzlehatch (the walls of Gormenghast)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
*PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE SERIOUS SPOILERS AT THE END OF THIS REVIEW*
This teacher-student seduction/psycho stalker tale starts out well enough that I actually thought it was going to be a genuinely good movie (as opposed to good sleaze) but is fairly quickly derailed by almost uniformly horrendous acting and some fairly idiotic plot developments. Still, the opening is memorable: a quick pan from a boat in a harbor with the name "Diane" to a dilapidated 3 or 4 story industrial building facing the docks, and a close-up on the crazy face of Ralph (Anthony James), closing up a red coffin that he keeps in a half-open room on the top floor. Ralph races downstairs to his white, circa 1960 hearse (the coffin/hearse thing are never explained) and off to stop outside of a school. There he witnesses Diane (Angel Tompkins) say goodbye to 2 boys, but Ralph only has eyes for the beautiful young teacher, as the title comes up and the terribly cheesy theme song "The Teacher", sung by Jackie Ward, makes the first of many appearances. Ralph waits for Diane to leave and follows her blue Corvette (Diane's got quite the lifestyle for a high school teacher) home, waiting outside her suburban house while she changes and then following her again. She notices at one point and stops, trying to confront him but he speeds past, soon arriving back at the industrial complex and heading to the top floor where he will spy on Diane in her eponymously-named boat sunbathing topless. Yes, Angel Tompkins' rack is the major draw here, and a fine one it is. But Ralph is interrupted in his salacious activity by the appearance of the two young men we saw a few minutes earlier, who hop off a motorcycle and make their way to his secret spot while he hides. Turns out one of them is Ralph's brother Lou (Rudy Herrera) and the other his best friend Sean (Jay North, not getting the best work since his halcyon TV "Dennis the Menace" days and looking very much like a smaller-framed John Schneider here); Lou has found the hiding place and the two proceed to spy on Diane until surprised by Ralph, at which point a shocked Lou falls to his death! Ralph blames Sean for Lou's death, and proceeds to chase him with a bayonet, but Sean gets away.
The rest of the film essentially alternates between Diane's seduction of Sean - who has graduated, so I guess that makes it a little more OK - and Ralph's attempts both the revenge himself on Sean and to get a little special time with Diane. Sean has a fairly stereotypical family life, with a father who wants him to be working all the time and an indulgent mother (both very, very bady acted) but somehow seems to have time to do the nasty with Diane as often as possible (more gratuitous nudity, please). There's one particularly fascinating scene where the two lovers go to a bar - Sean is obviously underaged but the bartender serves Diane multiple bottles of wine which she shares with him - and they are spied on by a couple of old ladies who are horrified at the "over 40" Diane (she's actually 28) seducing the kid. The two old ladies are played by the Katherine Cassavetes and Lady Rowlands, mothers of John and Gena, very bizarre, and the bar is just exactly the perfect 70s suburban bar. Both Sean and Diane are completely sloshed but manage to make it home in Diane's corvette with no acknowledgment that drunk driving is dangerous - this would never happen in PC 2010.
The ending is pretty cool too, though not very well shot or choreographed, as Ralph kidnaps Sean and takes him to his hideout, choking him to death, but is followed by Diane who allows herself to be raped on top of the coffin but in the middle of it grabs Ralph's bayonet and stabs him to death! I thought for sure that Sean would turn out to still be alive, but he's not and the film ends with Diane weeping - again, kind of atypical - or maybe drive-in audiences were more tolerant 35 years ago than the mainstream video audiences today?
All in all, lots of fun with very bad easy listening/lounge/muzak instrumental score and the stupid theme song popping up several times, good SoCal suburban and industrial locations - my guess is that they just used real locations in the area near the production offices for budgetary reasons, but watched now that works in the film's favor as it gives it a "reality" often absent in bigger studio productions - and an interesting if not terribly talented cast making for a pretty bizzaro slice-of-exploitation-life circa 35 years ago.
 Greatest Movie of All Time? November 26, 2009
Christopher Bird (NJ)
Absolute gold, this movie is pure genius. Why this movie did not win awards is beyond me. The acting, the costume design, everything is brilliantly done. With this movie you will laugh, you will cry, you will remember how awesome 1970's nudity is, the action scenes will keep you on the edge of your seat. Buy this movie and never look back.
 Does Anyone Even Think Of Calling The Police? October 25, 2009
Robert I. Hedges
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This piece of 1970's trash features a bizarre coming of age plot superimposed with an insane lunatic stalker plot. I give auteur Hikmet Avedis credit for trying to blend disparate plots, but the entire thing comes across as one contrivance after another. The plot concerns creepy stalking Vietnam veteran (of course) Ralph, who drives a hearse and lives in a grain silo overlooking the marina where public school teacher Diane keeps her yacht moored. He keeps his belonging in a casket, which I would have thought the police would have noticed during their investigation after his brother Lou falls to death from the top. Peeping Ralph blames Lou's friend Sean (Jay "Dennis the Menace" North!) for the death, which sets the full psychotic stalker plot in gear. Despite numerous sightings and threats to Diane and Sean, nobody ever once thinks to call the police. That was one logically challenged area of the film, but the other bit of incredulity revolves around the fact that a public high school teacher drives a Corvette, has a giant pool, and her own yacht. How much do teachers make in California, anyhow?
In the least credible part of the plot, teacher Diane and student Sean are on a first name basis with each other, and quickly move to other pastimes together, all while Ralph watches (and gets ever more jealous) and, most insanely, with the explicit encouragement of Sean's mother. The mother was definitely the creepiest element of the film for me. Along the way there are many ridiculous and embarrassing scenes: Diane washes her car in a full length dress, a gossipy restaurant scene provides the most inept flirtation ever, and last but not least, Diane's bedroom provides the backdrop for the most ludicrous use of an umbrella in filmmaking history (and yes, I have seen "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.")
The film has intentions to be creepy, and the ending is a bit out of the norm, although equally implausible and predictable. For making an effort I will generously give Hikmet his just rewards: two stars.
WHAT???????? August 13, 2009
Dollywood Vampire (Tulsa, OK)
OK, I am a huge fan of trashy, lowbrow entertainment, but this one just makes you go "WHAT???????" at the top of your lungs over and over and over again. Not saying I didn't enjoy it at all, but I've seen sci-fi that was far less far-fetched and improbable as this.
This gorgeous and (for reasons never explained) filthy-rich teacher (who looks barely old enough to be in college) goes swimming topless everyday off of her yacht. Two of her students (one who happens to be her next door neighbor) drop by to snoop when one of the guys' psycho older brother catches them. At this point, the younger brother accidentally plunges to his death (!).
So for the rest of the movie the psycho older brother follows the other guy around in a white hearse. This is all to keep him quiet about the death, but as this guy just fell to his death, why is the psycho bent on keeping things quiet? It was an accident! The psycho guy is also hot for the topless teacher. So you can imagine how outraged he is when the teacher seduces his nemesis - the student from next door! I was outraged and I had no stake in any of this!
Why this woman would find this meathead high school guy with no personality even vaguely interesting is hard to fathom. How they're suddenly in 'love' is just idiotic. And worst of all, the kid's creepy mom seems to encourage the teacher to get together with the son! Seriously!
This movie plays like every high school loser who ever had a hot teacher's fantasy (well, except for the bizarre and unexpectedly downbeat ending). This is a strange movie that will leave you with your mouth hanging wide open.
worth the $.99 used price April 8, 2007
David F. Manzi (chatham ny)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
not only is angel tompkins worth the price of admission, but marlene schmidt, who plays jay north's mom is a major milf, especially when she runs around in her bikini and seems to be attracted to her son as well. i unexpectedly enjoyed this movie, typical of a mid seventies drive in movie. i remember the newspaper ads for this at the time and they were quite racy to the 13 year old that i was.
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