To be honest, this barely holds together, but it does have Edwige Fenech and the tragedy is that not only is she obviously a massive visual attraction but she acts everyone else off the stage. Her subtle comic style and graceful movements are stand-out in an otherwise crudity. Vaguely related to our 'Confessions' films, Edwige made this after her glorious giallo and a couple of 'Canterbury Tale' spin-offs for husband, Sergio Martino. Ignoring the appalling over acting of most of the 'too old' school kids etc, there are interesting elements. Even in this silly little story, we know that the school finances are fiddled, that state housing is available on a 'what will you do for me' basis and gays are good for a laugh. Further, the mafia is more than hinted at and the male lead is encouraged to play gay 'women love the sensitive bit', in order to get near enough to grab, drug and almost rape. And all so that the man may turn out to be 'normal'. sounds like any other Italian movie when I think of it!
10 Reviews
Starting the franchise
pumaye11 August 2004
With this movie the gorgeous brunette Edwige Fenech - here at the
top of her physical charme - passes from the Giallo movies that
started her career between the late Sixties and early Seventies -
several of whom are indeed very good and worth seeing - to the
cheap erotic pharce that delineate the better part of her career
before her retiring from the scenes and the start of a very fortunate
producing career - she has always been a bright and corageous
woman in her choices. This movie starts a franchise, made of a few movies with the
same title character, but not necessarily real follows up to the
ones before. Edwige is the wife of a gymnastic professor
(D'Angelo) that becomes involved in a torrid love passion with a
young student. Better forgive her for such performances: she has been better
top of her physical charme - passes from the Giallo movies that
started her career between the late Sixties and early Seventies -
several of whom are indeed very good and worth seeing - to the
cheap erotic pharce that delineate the better part of her career
before her retiring from the scenes and the start of a very fortunate
producing career - she has always been a bright and corageous
woman in her choices. This movie starts a franchise, made of a few movies with the
same title character, but not necessarily real follows up to the
ones before. Edwige is the wife of a gymnastic professor
(D'Angelo) that becomes involved in a torrid love passion with a
young student. Better forgive her for such performances: she has been better
I don't shoot pornography
lastliberal22 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
The film starts off like an Italian Porky's: three boys checking out the girls bathroom where two well endowed girls are comparing breasts. It is one of the Italian sex comedies popular in the seventies.
Franco (Alfredo Pea), the boy who got the best of his buddies is in danger of failing, and gets a private tutor (Edwige Fenech). Now, as a typical teen, he is delighted when he meets her.
Giovanna (Fenech) doesn't arrive until late in the film, but she is the reason we are here. You cannot look at her long legs without excitement building up.
Franco is desperate. He even pretends he is gay to get her to sleep with him. I'm not sure how that is supposed to work.
He does manage to get a good look at her in the bathroom and cops a feel while she is sleeping, but, it isn't until he fakes a suicide that he finally achieves success.
Great comedy and a welcome view of Fenech.
Franco (Alfredo Pea), the boy who got the best of his buddies is in danger of failing, and gets a private tutor (Edwige Fenech). Now, as a typical teen, he is delighted when he meets her.
Giovanna (Fenech) doesn't arrive until late in the film, but she is the reason we are here. You cannot look at her long legs without excitement building up.
Franco is desperate. He even pretends he is gay to get her to sleep with him. I'm not sure how that is supposed to work.
He does manage to get a good look at her in the bathroom and cops a feel while she is sleeping, but, it isn't until he fakes a suicide that he finally achieves success.
Great comedy and a welcome view of Fenech.
The School Teacher
Michael_Elliott4 November 2008
School Teacher, The (1975)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Italian sex comedy has a nerdy virgin named Franco (Alfredo Pea) has so much sex on his mind that he begins to fail at school so his parents hire him a teacher (Edwige Fenech) to help but the sexy woman just makes it worse. His parents inform the teacher that he's gay, which the son decides to play along with in hopes that the teacher will try to "change" him. This was my first stab at this genre and if you were offended or found the American teen/sex movies to be dumb then you'd best stay far away from this thing. This movie is so incredibly over the top that I couldn't help but feel things were just too stupid for their own good. We have farts being set on fire, which is just the start of what happens. The film is far from a bad one but at the same time I really don't see too many people enjoying it. I think the biggest draw is going to be fans of the beauty Fenech who once again shows that she's too good for the material. She acts circles around everyone else in the cast and manages to turn in a very funny performance even though she's just shown as the piece of meat. Her beauty certainly can't be questioned and she has several nude scenes to show off even more. Pea is decent in his role but the character is just too annoying for us to really like. The comedy is very low brow and that includes many jokes about gay people, which certain groups will be offended by. The jokes are rather mean spirited as well and there's also jokes towards suicide and rape. The majority of the film has the student forcing himself on the teacher, which might not go over too well in America but if you don't take the film too serious and you're a fan of the star then just sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Italian sex comedy has a nerdy virgin named Franco (Alfredo Pea) has so much sex on his mind that he begins to fail at school so his parents hire him a teacher (Edwige Fenech) to help but the sexy woman just makes it worse. His parents inform the teacher that he's gay, which the son decides to play along with in hopes that the teacher will try to "change" him. This was my first stab at this genre and if you were offended or found the American teen/sex movies to be dumb then you'd best stay far away from this thing. This movie is so incredibly over the top that I couldn't help but feel things were just too stupid for their own good. We have farts being set on fire, which is just the start of what happens. The film is far from a bad one but at the same time I really don't see too many people enjoying it. I think the biggest draw is going to be fans of the beauty Fenech who once again shows that she's too good for the material. She acts circles around everyone else in the cast and manages to turn in a very funny performance even though she's just shown as the piece of meat. Her beauty certainly can't be questioned and she has several nude scenes to show off even more. Pea is decent in his role but the character is just too annoying for us to really like. The comedy is very low brow and that includes many jokes about gay people, which certain groups will be offended by. The jokes are rather mean spirited as well and there's also jokes towards suicide and rape. The majority of the film has the student forcing himself on the teacher, which might not go over too well in America but if you don't take the film too serious and you're a fan of the star then just sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is.
The nudity gave this movie an avg. of 5
cwolf1020 May 2019
The Schoolteacher
BandSAboutMovies16 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The Schoolteacher is the first of the five-film Insegnante series, three of which have Edwige Fenech in the lead (the others have Nadia Cassini and Anna Maria Rizzoli). The story is always pretty simple and as they say, ne derivano cose stupide.
Fefe Mottola (Vittorio Caprioli) wants his son Franco (Alfedo Pea) to graduate, so he hires a private tutor, Giovanna Pagaus* (Fenech). As you may have learned from watching her in oh so many commedia sexy all'italiana movies, the very existence of Edwige Fenech is enough to send men into fits of foaming at the mouth. Franco realizes that he can't be around her without incident, so he tries to convince her that he's gay. And yes, that's worrisome but this is a 1975 Italian sex comedy and this kind of thing tends to happen.
Director Nando Cicero made twenty movies of this quality while writers Tito Carpi (Thor the Conqueror, Tentacles) and Francesco Milizia (The Teasers, Erotic Exploits of a Sexy Seducer, so many other movies where gorgeous women destroy men's wills and teenage boys have fart-related issues) made plenty more films. That said, this is a fine film for this genre, which is quite simple and obviously rather silly, but there are worse things than watching Edwige Fenech for 95 minutes.
*Giovanna comes from Fenech's other big sex comedy success, Giovanna Long-Thigh.
Fefe Mottola (Vittorio Caprioli) wants his son Franco (Alfedo Pea) to graduate, so he hires a private tutor, Giovanna Pagaus* (Fenech). As you may have learned from watching her in oh so many commedia sexy all'italiana movies, the very existence of Edwige Fenech is enough to send men into fits of foaming at the mouth. Franco realizes that he can't be around her without incident, so he tries to convince her that he's gay. And yes, that's worrisome but this is a 1975 Italian sex comedy and this kind of thing tends to happen.
Director Nando Cicero made twenty movies of this quality while writers Tito Carpi (Thor the Conqueror, Tentacles) and Francesco Milizia (The Teasers, Erotic Exploits of a Sexy Seducer, so many other movies where gorgeous women destroy men's wills and teenage boys have fart-related issues) made plenty more films. That said, this is a fine film for this genre, which is quite simple and obviously rather silly, but there are worse things than watching Edwige Fenech for 95 minutes.
*Giovanna comes from Fenech's other big sex comedy success, Giovanna Long-Thigh.
Rape culture at its finest
frodojr15 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Under age children nudity from the get-go. School girls/children are getting changed and their being spied on while their nudity is shown. Fantastic start.
The whole movie is sexual assault upon sexual assault on women.
Firstly it's the maid,who gets assaulted by the male character. Groping, exposing himself on her etc Afterwards the hired teacher. Each scene is a different location but same sexual assaults. At one point he attempts to rape her while she is sleeping,but she wakes up in time so he "only" assaults her by groping her breasts and forcefully kissing her. She eventually fights him off by finding a weapon that looks like a shothun,even though it wasn't loaded with real bullets.
A rapist apologist movie showing that a teenage horny males instead of learning how to be human and control their hormones, they can go around sexually assaulting women. This rapist mentality is offensive to me and any other normal male.
Wish i could give negative rating to this pile of trash. Whoever wrote this needs their hard drive checked.
The whole movie is sexual assault upon sexual assault on women.
Firstly it's the maid,who gets assaulted by the male character. Groping, exposing himself on her etc Afterwards the hired teacher. Each scene is a different location but same sexual assaults. At one point he attempts to rape her while she is sleeping,but she wakes up in time so he "only" assaults her by groping her breasts and forcefully kissing her. She eventually fights him off by finding a weapon that looks like a shothun,even though it wasn't loaded with real bullets.
A rapist apologist movie showing that a teenage horny males instead of learning how to be human and control their hormones, they can go around sexually assaulting women. This rapist mentality is offensive to me and any other normal male.
Wish i could give negative rating to this pile of trash. Whoever wrote this needs their hard drive checked.
Prime
ziada-812559 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Loving thriller films puts you in another world, especially those types of thriller films that are short stories, but this team created an exciting story for us that made it a fairy-tale beginning and endWhat are these movements and what is this team? It is a wonderful work that made me disgust myself and reduce my value and made me a person addicted to this type of films. So what do we do in this rot that destroys the human environment and also makes their lives black, lazy and immoral, and all they care about is the relationshipLet us not repeat our mistakes, let us start new ones, and let us pray for guidance.
I am over 18 but I can watch this.
freerealme22 February 2023
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I love watching that movie and I love watching it so much. Can you let me watch this? Because this movie is so good to watch. I really want to watch this movie. And I really want to watch this, can you help me watch this? Because I am over 18 years old. Can you help me watch this movie? Because I really like watching this movie. And it looks good. I will hopefully I will watch this very good movie and I would also like to thank you in advance. Let me watch this movies And thank you very much, and I would like to evaluate this story as very good. And I wish you all good health and success in all your endeavors, thank you.
Terminally stupid movie, redeemed somewhat by Edwige Fenech
lazarillo4 August 2007
This was the first of several "Sexy Schoolteacher" movies Edwige Fenech appeared in, and also the first of a whole slew of "teenage" sex comedies featuring annoying Italian buffoon Alvaro Vitali as the world's oldest looking but, at the same time, most immature high school student.
The movie starts out with material not quite advanced enough to be sophomoric. Three "teenagers" (the main protagonist looks to be about twenty and his friends, Vitali and another guy, easily look thirty) are doing what male teenagers always do in these kind of movies--trying to get laid. They get nowhere with the girls their own age (other than spying on them in the locker room as they rub lotion on each other's boobs). They then decide to go after "older" women, which leads to a lame running gag where they spot a particularly attractive female body part only to find out it's attached to a grotesque woman or cross-dresser.
Not a moment to soon "sexy schoolteacher" Edwige Fenech shows up (although she is not really a schoolteacher but more of a tutor the protagonist's parents hire for their easily distracted son). These movies were really a step down for Fenech from the gialli she was making with her paramour/producer Luciano Martino and his director brother Sergio in the early '70's, but her presence in these kind of movies was a real step up for the movies themselves. Fenech was as beautiful and frequently naked as Gloria Guida, the other regular female star of these kind of films, but she was also a genuinely talented comic actress. It is very hard to believe a woman that looks like her would be so unsophisticated and respond in any way to the clumsy advances of the homely and idiotic male protagonist of this movie, but I guess that's half the appeal of these kinds of flicks, isn't it? This is a terminally stupid movie, but it is redeemed somewhat by the presence of Fenech.
The movie starts out with material not quite advanced enough to be sophomoric. Three "teenagers" (the main protagonist looks to be about twenty and his friends, Vitali and another guy, easily look thirty) are doing what male teenagers always do in these kind of movies--trying to get laid. They get nowhere with the girls their own age (other than spying on them in the locker room as they rub lotion on each other's boobs). They then decide to go after "older" women, which leads to a lame running gag where they spot a particularly attractive female body part only to find out it's attached to a grotesque woman or cross-dresser.
Not a moment to soon "sexy schoolteacher" Edwige Fenech shows up (although she is not really a schoolteacher but more of a tutor the protagonist's parents hire for their easily distracted son). These movies were really a step down for Fenech from the gialli she was making with her paramour/producer Luciano Martino and his director brother Sergio in the early '70's, but her presence in these kind of movies was a real step up for the movies themselves. Fenech was as beautiful and frequently naked as Gloria Guida, the other regular female star of these kind of films, but she was also a genuinely talented comic actress. It is very hard to believe a woman that looks like her would be so unsophisticated and respond in any way to the clumsy advances of the homely and idiotic male protagonist of this movie, but I guess that's half the appeal of these kinds of flicks, isn't it? This is a terminally stupid movie, but it is redeemed somewhat by the presence of Fenech.
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