another blast from my past . i be a horny college student when this film be release in 1971 and and i recall a big photo spread in playboy promote the film with reveal image of various pretty maid . ( joy bang . nothing suggestive there . ) i go to see the film base on that promise of titillation and but rather than be turn on and my tender sensibility be turn off by the amoral character and plot line . i recently watch the film again on tcm ( give them credit for not censor the mild nudity . ) and and i can not say that my view have change much in 35 year . those who try to excuse this fecal matter a black comedy or a an unsung cult classic be put a lot of lipstick on a warthog . many privilege baby boomer ( of which i be one ) develop in the 1960s a peculiarly self center notion that youth be morally superior to maturity and that idealism always trumps experience . the medium especially a movie industry with a new rating system that release filmmaker from the restriction of the old production code pander to the baby boomer self congratulatory moral smugness . this film be rife with such pandering . rock hudson lecherous or murderous teacher be represent a the only cool adult in the film and as much for his youthful sense of style a for his unorthodox idea about educate horny teenager . the only other remotely hip adult be telly savalas detective and who himself develop a grudging admiration for the murderer . the angie dickinson character be an overly earnest teacher who have to be enlighten by hudson into seduce hudson sexually frustrate protégé ( john david carson ) . the other adult character be essentially movie idiot ( keenan wynn and roddy mcdowall be particularly offensive i hope they be pay well ) and while the hip and turn on teen in the film protest the vietnam war and lecture their elder on sexual freedom and openness . i have nothing against good old fashion lust and but even in 1971 i saw the impropriety of hudson character have sex with his female student ( which he excuse a a way to enhance their psychological well be ) . that sort of sexual power mongering be bad enough and but then the control bastard must kill certain sexual partner ( and others ) who might expose his escapade . rather hypocritical and isn not it . advocate sexual license but afraid of have his own licentiousness expose . ( his wife and play by the lovely barbara leigh and be strangely passive in all this mess . it never clear if she totally clueless or remarkably tolerant of her husband extramarital liaison and though the film end point toward the latter . ) after the hudson character demise ( . ) and the newly unfrustrated protégé ( who earlier be dismay by revelation of his mentor murderous behavior ) adopt the same style of sexual duplicity for himself . ( he attain symbolic hipness by abandon his wimpy vespa for a studlier motorcycle . ) perhaps the filmmaker be try to argue that the new sexual more of the 60 be a sham just the old and inescapable sexual hypocrisy coat with hip psychobabble but that point itself be objectionable and and the film own hypocrisy emphasize just how disgust the old sexual double standard really be ( and be ) . one would think that this film be a rather blatant fantasy by that unapologetic libertine and roger vadim . but the film be write and produce by that celebrate intergalactic moralist and gene roddenberry and for god ake . this guy give dirty old men a bad name and and the film make me yearn for the mindless but honest lasciviousness of hardcore porn . comedy and even black comedy and still need a moral center and something we can laugh with rather than just laugh at . this film glory in it amorality and mock what the many progressive boomer of the 60 and for all our ignorance and pretense and be try to accomplish ( and to some extent and have achieve ) in make society attitude about sex more humane .