One after the other

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Movie
German title One after the other
Original title Pretty Maids All in a Row
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 91 minutes
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Director Roger Vadim
script Gene Roddenberry
production Gene Roddenberry
music Lalo Schifrin
camera Charles Rosher Jr.
cut Bill Brame
occupation
synchronization

One after the other (Original title: Pretty Maids All in a Row ) is an American crime film from 1971. The French film director Roger Vadim directed . The film, which is based on a novel by Francis Pollini , also contains black humor in places . The film was also released under the title Sex-Teacher-Report .

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A mysterious series of murders of female students occurs at Ocean Front High School. The film shows different storylines or points of view parallel to one another:

Perpetrator

Tiger McDrew is the school's counseling teacher and football coach. He is very respected by students and colleagues and a loving family man. However, Tiger takes some novel educational views. In his opinion, "the best way to communicate with girls is sex, with boys it's sport". But before he has sex with a schoolgirl, he first lets her take an intelligence test. One day he ignores the test results with fatal consequences: the girl demands that he divorce his wife and marry her for it, otherwise she would betray him. Then he kills her.

A few days later, another student told him while having sex that she knew about his relationship with the murdered woman. Then she too has to die. A few days later he is caught having sex with a schoolgirl by the incompetent policeman Poldaski. However, Poldaski doesn't think badly and instead tells him that the girl's father is a good dentist and that he only recently had a root canal filling. Poldaski and the girl have to die as a result.

Tiger decides not to have sex with schoolgirls anymore. When he tries to make this clear to a student, she can hardly understand it. However, the conversation is accidentally recorded on Tiger's tape. While Ponce, the student representative, has to wait for Tiger, he listens to the tape. He immediately realizes that Tiger is the killer. Tiger then confesses his motives to him. He fabricated a fatal accident and went to Brazil with his family.

Investigations

The police are in the dark during their investigation. Policeman Poldaski is completely incompetent. He accidentally destroys evidence and, as mentioned earlier, falls victim to the killer himself. Captain Sam Surcher is much more conscientious in his approach, but does not achieve any success. When the students were asked whether someone had made "unnatural advances" towards them, they answered that there was no such thing.

When evaluating love letters, a dark-skinned student comes under suspicion. Sam Surcher, however, wants to avoid being accused of having racist prejudice against the police, and to be on the safe side, first asked Tiger, the counseling teacher, about this student. However, Tiger assures him that it was not this student. At the end of the conversation, Surcher praised another passage from Tiger's unfinished pedagogy book.

Tiger is only later targeted by the investigation. A police officer had noticed that Tiger always locks the door when a student is in his consultation room. The investigators break open the door, but find Tiger in a harmless conversation. You apologize to him and do not follow the lead any further.

After the commemoration of the allegedly deceased tiger, the investigation is closed. Sam Surcher notices, however, that two plane tickets to Brazil fall out of Tiger's wife's pocket. He then decides to spend his private vacation in Brazil.

Ponce

Ponce de Leon Harper is the student representative at the school and also the one who finds the first body. He is very shy of girls as he often gets an erection unexpectedly, which he is very embarrassed about. One day he talks to Tiger about his "erectile problems," which Tiger misunderstands to mean that Ponce cannot get an erection. Tiger believes that "friendship with a mature woman" can "heal" the boy and persuades substitute teacher Miss Smith to meet the boy on an excuse. He gets an erection and Miss Smith thinks he is "cured". After another conversation with Ponce, Tiger is not yet satisfied and specifically asks Miss Smith to get into bed with Ponce, which is what happens. Ponce falls in love with Miss Smith and wants to marry her. Tiger doesn't think this is a good idea; Ponce should go to college first because he was sure to become a good teacher one day.

When Ponce realizes Tiger is the killer, Tiger fabricates an accident. While Tiger is leaving for Brazil, Ponce says that Tiger saved his life and died in the process. Ponce has now become a swarm of girls and can give comfort to his grieving classmates.

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