CANDICE RIALSON & PAT ANDERSON IN 'SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS'

Title: SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS Year: 1975 Rating: ***

Two of the COVER GIRL MODELS, blonde Pat Anderson and brunette Rhonda Hopkins, appear in what's more a hands-on Roger Corman production beyond mere distribution where wife Julie Corman and director Barbara Peeters have HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD starlet Candice Rialson (the epitome of a perfect-blonde but as cool and tough as any dude) and her two lovely friends going from farmland America to sunny Southern California to become the titular SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS, a kind of spiritual remake of Corman's THE STUDENT TEACHERS...

Hopkins turns in the most intense performance, not as naturally inclined to instructing teenagers until having an affair with the campus James Dean, who (caught in a peripheral crime-plot to up the suspenseful ante) looks so much her late-twenties age, the taboo subject matter doesn't matter... 

Pat Anderson, Rhonda Hopkins and Candice Rialson in Summer School Teachers

Meanwhile, Pat Anderson meets a famously reclusive, ultimately flaky rock singer Michael Greer (cult actor from MESSIAH OF EVIL and THE GAY DECEIVERS) before a kind of bickering, opposites attract relationship with conceited but affable teacher Grainger Hines... 

And, while dating an awkwardly shy science-teacher, first-billed Candice Rialson has the least screen-time yet holds the centralized story-line as the campus coach of what's a progressive girls' football team, objected to by sexist coach Dick Miller... seeming like it could have been its own separate movie...

Students Barbara Peil and Ka-Ron Sowell Brown in Summer School Teachers

Particularly when spunky-cute high-school girls Barbara Peil and Ka-Ron Sowell Brown do costume-wearing sneak-attacks on the boy's team and coach... befitting what female director Peeters intended as an expose of hot (sometimes naked) chicks also flirting with the feminist movement...

Which works pretty well since SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS strays from the usual drive-in-cinema elements where the actresses are fodder to sexual escapades — in what's ultimately more of a summertime hangout flick involving gorgeous female instructors than a risque exploitation exploiting them.

Barbara Peil in Summer School Teachers

Candice Rialson in Summer School Teachers

Rhonda Hopkins (as Rhonda Leigh Hopkins) in Summer School Teachers

Barbara Peil in Summer School Teachers

Rhonda Hopkins (as Rhonda Leigh Hopkins) in Summer School Teachers

Rhonda Hopkins (as Rhonda Leigh Hopkins) in Summer School Teachers

Candice Rialson in Summer School Teachers with Christopher Barrett

Candice Rialson in Summer School Teachers

Rhonda Hopkins (as Rhonda Leigh Hopkins) in Summer School Teachers

Michael Greer in Summer School Teachers

Candice Rialson in Summer School Teachers

Vince Barnett and Dick Miller in Summer School Teachers

Pat Anderson, Rhonda Hopkins and Candice Rialson in Summer School Teachers

Rhonda Hopkins and Will Carney in Summer School Teachers

Barbara Peil in Summer School Teachers

Pat Anderson in Summer School Teachers

Pat Anderson in Summer School Teachers with Grainer Hines

Candice Rialson, Rhonda Hopkins and Pat Anderson in Summer School Teachers

Barbara Peil in Summer School Teachers

Pat Anderson in Summer School Teachers