Pretty Maids All in a Row

Damn, it's such a good Weird Wednesday this week that I may have to risk screwing up my sleep/work schedule to go: Roger Vadim's 1971 film Pretty Maids All in a Row, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson, scripted by Gene Roddenberry. Hmm, perhaps if I tell my Star Trek-loving husband about Roddenberry, he'll go with me? Let's take it to Lars and his inimitable descriptions:

"From director Roger Vadim (BARBARELLA) and writer Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek) comes a surprisingly dark, funny, sweet film, saturated with the golden light, color and sexiness of '70s California. Plot-wise, it's a murder mystery - beautiful young girls are turning up dead, the cops (led by Telly Savalas) are investigating, the football coach (Rock Hudson, who's great here) is a suspect. Interwoven is the story of a sexually frustrated male student's dalliance with his hot teacher Angie Dickinson. The story is well structured, the actors are top notch, but what makes this film really special is the French director's merciless insight into American social mores. He also captures some of the poetry of sexual desire in a way that few, if any, American directors can. A real, undeservedly obscure classic."