1961 • Approved • Drama • Oct 1961 (USA) Stars: William Shatner • Patty McCormack • Lee Kinsolving • Virginia Field High school teacher gets in trouble when he tries to teach a class in sex education.
What a great cast of actors. William Shatner, Patty Mccormack from The Bad Seed,Billy Gray from Father knows best and Edward Platt from Get Smart. Nearly forgot Beau bridges.
Can’t beat that 50s teen angst drama with that music! That spinny kinda beatnik-y beat they play every time the teens are up to something lol. Thank you so much for sharing.
People who can't even spell a 5 letter word like "agenda" worry me! Especially because they have no clue what schools and school boards do. Or were you joking? The right wingers believe all the bullshit that MAGAand Q Anon shovels on them. Those crazy lies are not the truth.
A friend of mine had a spoken word album where he read the lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." There must have been a million outtakes. It was unbelievably bad.
Yes, all these oldies were filmed in the 60's in California, but Hollywood wanted viewers to think otherwise. For instance, at 27:08 on the video, the guy who used to play "Bud" in "Father Knows Best," gets in the car with "Janet" the blonde, and the other guy and says, "Oh, Gifford will never tell. As sure as I'm sitting here in 'Motor City' our troubles are over." So we're supposed to believe this is "Detroit" (Motor City)? Like many of these young people in the movie -- we couldn't go to our parents either --- just as they said in the classroom scene, so this is another example of how we of "The Explosive Generation" in life -- may have learned by imitating "art."
Surprisingly good and surprisingly ahead of its time; dealing with student protest, how lies can be manufactured to stir up outrage, suppress dissent, and further a repressive agenda, and how organized protest can stand up to the lies and repression.
It's freaking UNCANNY how you find this stuff. It actually inspired me! I didn't think it possible, much less from a 'drive-in' movie. Fun and uplifting, just what I needed. Thanks bro.
Guys, guys. You’re talking about the legendary, the historic, the amazing, the valiant, the heroic, the only one, the courageous, *THE MAN WHO CHEATED DEATH, JAMES TIBERIOS KIRK.*
😅 one line hit hard - mighty hard. Paraphrased "do as I say not as I do." Over 55 years later it hit me like a cement truck to the point where I stopped watching the movie and wrote this comment. Will remember forever the number of times it was directed at me, as well as many of the circumstances.
Look at top of screen beginning of movie just before Shatner starts his first lecture. Microphone can be seen at top of screen. I noticed this a lot when I was a kid watching TV.
Lots of famous young actors that would become more famous. Love the language of this movie which was supposed to reflect rebellion and that “Beatnik” jargon and attitude these actors were conveying. Of course these famous actors were older than teenagers. But, I love it that much more! 😊 I remember National Geographic looking at the pictures ! Additionally., the car salesman wearing a cowboy hat. We had that in California with Cal Worthington “Go see Cal “!
Yes, nor did I and I was a high school student in the 1960s and a Drive-In addict. Clearly it was a box office bomb. It was interesting as a historical movie because it shows the roots of the Far Left student revolt of the 1960s and encouragement of Hollywood in this disaster.
My small town community would have never screened this movie, unfortunately, not in the one movie theater or the drive-in. I graduated in 1968. I had many of the same questions, and there was no guidance. The comment that the girl made about losing her boyfriend if they didn't have sex, and how they felt too guilty when they had the chance speaks to the culture of those times. I remember my mother saying girls had to protect their reputations, but my experience was a lot of expectations and pressure from boys. Actually, I hated high school, but loved college.
Really good movie. I couldn't help but contrast the way Shatner treated his students with the way I was treated in my 1970s all male catholic high school. The teachers would never be as casual and friendly to students as this movie portrays. Classes were glum and most teachers couldn't be bothered with getting to know us. The threat of physical violence was always present if the teacher didn't like what you were doing. The instructors were all male and were for the most part sad and unhappy individuals who were often in a bad mood. Most of these men had only become teachers to avoid the draft and it showed.
There's a scene in "The Untouchables" TV show ("White Slavers" episode) where Robert Stack grabs the old school telephone and puts both pieces up to his ears. He figured out what he did and tried to disguise it. They left it in there. Things were nice and slack in the 50's.
Me being a _teenager_ back in the sixties can kinda relate to this movie. Brings back some good memories and some not so good, but by far the majority of them are good.
I al way s wanted to see patty play more bad girl roles . And hade a cush on her she is and was a good actress thank you for this film and have a good day .
Is that @11:44 the legendary, the historic, the amazing, the valiant, the heroic, the only one, the courageous, *THE MAN WHO CHEATED DEATH, JAMES TIBERIOS KIRK?*
Anyone who tunes this in to see William Shatner do his patented overacting is going to be disappointed: he hasn't learned to do that yet! He gives a very grounded, intelligent performance as a teacher who inadvertently arouses huge controversy by simply discussing sex in his class. It says a lot about this thoughtful, very well directed (Buzz Kulik later did the legendary football weepie Brian's Song) that it doesn't stop at teenage hormones but uses them to touch on such topics as nuclear war and the draft...and to take a deep dive into the role of student resistance (in 1961!) and police response (fire hoses? Really?) And I love how the movie refuses to demonize anybody--not the principal or even the used car salesman! The adults aren't evil, they're good people sometimes making bad decisions under pressure, which makes this obscure movie far more mature than certain famous high school flicks I could mention (ahem John Hughes ahem). The filmmakers couldn't possibly have predicted this, but they made an amazingly prescient film that in its own little way predates discussion of student response to Vietnam and Gaza. This, in addition to the fact that it's smart, absorbing and never exploitative, makes it pretty explosive in and of itself! 9/10.
This reminds me of my protesting days against the Vietnam war back in 1970 at 16 years old 1234. We don’t want your effing war 5678 get them out and get it straight. Thanks for the upload you guys love the movie God bless you.
21:43 I finally got one of those Kitchen-Aid counter top mixers and I love it. I really didn't want to spend the money on it but a good person gifted it to me and it's a top of the line with all the attachments.
@@cattymajiv American trash? And here you are watching an American film and commenting on an American engineered platform. Just when will Canada stop acting like its shit doesn't stink? eh?
The following year (1962), William Shatner would play quite a different character in another outstanding "message" movie - namely, Adam Cramer in Roger Corman's "The Intruder." It's well worth watching - and I'm pretty sure it can be found on RU-vid.
I didn’t see this movie when it first came out but I did see it years later and I never forgot it. It was very good subject matter was great and the directing was great to thanks for the upload you guys and love from all of us on Staten Island, New York.
What an excellent movie 5 stars William Shatner is one awesome actor he has done so much and deserves so much more even today in 2024 he is doing THE UNEXPLAINED awesome show I was born in 1963 to seething movie was impossible thanks for the upload from a Canadian to a great Canadian actor thanks so much
I think everyone needs to watch this film if for no other reason to see just how filthy nasty, repugnant, degenerative sleazy and trashy our society has become. Think about this, the parents were shocked and it caused a big uproar just because of a sex talk! My God, how far have we fallen? I don't even think this would even be on the radar in schools today. I would imagine it's like talking about the weather now. With all that said how did we get here ? This was the beginning of what I believe the Communists take over of our schools, as they like protests ,they like stirring up trouble, and they'll do things like this just get what they want.
I agree. When I was a teenager in the 1980s, the teachers would talk about all sorts of inappropriate things in class, and often without the knowledge or consent of the parents. As I would have preferred to have grown up in a time in which this wasn't considered acceptable behavior, this film was a reminder of what was lost.
@24:33..."Hey, where's breakfast? I tee-off in less than an hour". @44:26....Girl is upset and crying. Parents called the family doctor for at home, emergency virginity check. (gotta suck) @57:53....Don't go to college and end up like Paco the janitor. I mean, WTH? (interesting bongo music 🤔) @1:25:20..Masons win 63-61 on a buzzer shot at the same moment they learned they can all have SEX now. Woo-Hoo!
The film debut of director Buzz Kulik, who rose to fame a decade later with “Brian’s Song” and “The Hunter,” 1980, the final film of Steve McQueen. Considered one of the greatest TV directors of all-time Kulik directed episodes of “Perry Mason” and the original “Twilight Zone.”
22:23 Who remembers wall phones?.... and look, it has a dial on it! Anyone know how to work one of those gadgets? Take a look at the top right of the screen. Anyone know what that thing with the crank on it attached to the cabinet is? Edit: It's kinda high for a pencil sharpener.
@@fredneecher1746 I think it's a pencil sharpener and even it is a can opener or even something else, it's seems inconveniently high up there to use. Something could fly off of that thing while you're using it and fly right into your eye. It's higher than both of their heads.
young people being able to discuss things openly and decide for themselves is always going to be very radical, because it threatens entrenched undemocratic power...of religious rulers, dictators and capitalists alike. thats why its a key thing all those elites are against.
