The Student Teachers (1973)

Interesting facts

The Student Teachers is a 1973 American exploitation film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and produced by Julie Corman. Part of the "nurse" cycle of films that began with The Student Nurses (1970), it was made by the same team behind Night Call Nurses. The film was shot in 15 days for under $100,000 and became one of the most successful entries in the series.

Production

Roger Corman had achieved success with The Student Nurses, written by Stephanie Rothman and Charles S. Swartz and directed by Rothman. He initially commissioned Rothman to write The Student Teachers, but she left New World Pictures after The Velvet Vampire to work for Dimension Pictures.

Following two successful sequels to The Student Nurses - Private Duty Nurses and Night Call Nurses - Corman decided to expand the concept to teachers. Director Jonathan Kaplan, who had directed Night Call Nurses, recalled: "After Night Call Nurses was done, I didn't talk to him again for a while.

Producer Jon Davison noted that no one who worked on The Student Teachers ever saw the original Rothman/Swartz script. A new script was written by Kaplan and Danny Opatoshu (who had helped write Night Call Nurses), but Corman requested rewrites.

Kaplan later explained his approach to early filmmaking: "When I looked at the filmographies of the directors I admired, I noticed that they made a hell of a lot of movies before they made a good one. And I made the decision consciously to make as many movies as I could in as short a period of time as I could."

The film was shot in 15 days for under $100,000, including three days of filming at the Paramount Ranch. According to Davison, Corman removed several jokes from the final chase sequence to play it more seriously.

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