The Teacher (1974)-A Prurient Delight

Oh, the joys of Cinemax, or as we called it back in the day, "Skinemax." Pornography was not neary as accessible at one time as it was today. Nope, we had to beg a magazine from our roommate, or better yet, watch one of the delectable films that we coudl get away with watching in our dorm room TV lounges, 'cause it wasn't really porn, 'cause it was on cable. Besides, you coul actually get away with watching these films when girls were in the room.

I was thinking of this, the other day while watching the 1974 delight, The Teacher. The film featured Jay North (yep! Dennis The Menace hisownself!!) and the star of many of these types of features, Angel Tompkins.

These movies had to have enough plot so that they would not be dubbed pornogrpahy, so, here it is. By the way, I love 1970s low budget movies. These were predominantly shot on location anywhere they could get away with shooting them, and let's face it, just about everything looked like crap in the that decade. Particularly in southern California.

We quickly find out that public school teachers in southern California in the 1970s were some of the most financially-remunerated people in this decade, as Tompkins' character owns a boat,with her name on it, a Camaro, and a ranch-style house, Either that, or she really took her ex-husband to the cleaners, in which case, putting her name on the boat, was a pretty vindictive move. We never quite learn what subject she teaches, but she does like to sun herself a lot.

Okay, so Jay North and his friend go to the warehouse digs of this friends' creepy older Vietnam vet brother. We find out that the older brother's fave hobby is scoping out Tompkins with a telescope from a veranda at the warehouse. A couple of mildly absurd plot points later,and North's friend falls from the warehouse veranda and is killed.

The creepy older brother stalks Tompkins, and North and Tompkins end us seeing each other, a lot, and we see Tompkins in various states of undress throughout the pic. Much later,the creepy older brother gets his. It turns out that North recently graduated from high school, so that makes his scenes with Tompkins considerably less statutory.

I don't thin this is out on DVD, nor would I expect to see it anytime soon. It is an interesting relic from a more innocent, if crappier age.