Pretty Maids All in a Row

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Infobox Film
name = Pretty Maids All in a Row


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caption = "Pretty Maids All in a Row" theatrical poster
director = Roger Vadim
producer = Gene Roddenberry
writer = Francis Pollini (novel)
Gene Roddenberry
narrator =
starring = Rock Hudson
Angie Dickinson
Telly Savalas
music = Lalo Schifrin
cinematography = Charles Rosher Jr.
editing =
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = 1971
runtime = 91 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
budget =
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amg_id =
imdb_id = 0067610

"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.

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.

Primary cast

* Rock Hudson: Michael 'Tiger' McDrew
* Angie Dickinson: Betty Smith
* Telly Savalas: Police Captain Sam Surcher
* John David Carson: Ponce de Leon Harper
* Keenan Wynn: Police Chief John Poldaski
* Barbara Leigh: Jean McDrew, Tiger's wife

The Pretty Maids:
* Brenda Sykes: Pamela Wilcox, an African American student
* Joy Bang: Rita
* Gretchen Burrell: Marjorie
* JoAnna Cameron: Yvonne Millick, a dark-haired student
* Amy Eccles: Hilda Lee, an Asian American student
* June Fairchild: Sonny Swangle, an always-laughing student
* Margaret Markov: Polly
* Diane Sherry: Sheryl

External links

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* [http://www.nndb.com/films/036/000032937/ NNDB listing]
* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:106545 Allmovie.com listing]


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