Pretty Maids All in a Row is a 1971 American sexploitation film that is part black comedy, part sex comedy, and part murder mystery. Starring Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, and Telly Savalas, it was released on April 28, 1971. Roger Vadim directed the film, and Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the screenplay based on a 1968 novel by Francis Pollini. The film was Roddenberry's only feature film writing credit. Plot In Oceanfront High School, a (fictitious) American high school, at the height of the sexual revolution, young female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a male student called Ponce is experiencing sexual frustration, surrounded by a seemingly unending stream of beautiful and sexually provocative classmates. Michael "Tiger" McDrew (Hudson) is the high school's football coach and guidance counselor, but there is another aspect of Tiger's character; he has sexual encounters with a number of female students. In class Ponce instantly takes a shine to a single substitute teacher named Miss Smith (Dickinson) and presents his report on John Milton's Paradise Lost. Tiger understanding Ponce's sexual life during the school break tries to befriend Ponce, and help him deal with his sexual needs by encouraging him to seek the affections of Miss Smith. Later Tiger talks to Miss Smith showing her a profile of Ponce and that he has amazing potential but has a hang up when it comes to sexual education. Tiger recommends that Miss Smith teach Ponce in building confidence. After school Miss Smith takes Ponce to her home where they discuss what he thinks about English poet John Milton. Ponce describes Milton's Paradise Lost as the way Lucifer was expelled from Heaven, and his evolution into the Devil, avenging himself by corrupting God's finest creation, Mankind. Miss Smith tantalizes Ponce by reading him some of Milton's poems. When they go to make some hot chocolate Ponce flees into the closet. Miss Smith convinces him to come out where she then reveals that she knows about his sexual problem and that she invited him to her house to talk about it with him. The next day in school Miss Smith informs Tiger of her progress with Ponce and of the boy's obvious attraction to her. Tiger tells Miss Smith that with her next meeting she has to do a more informative assessment about Ponce. Tiger supposedly shows a technique by fondling Miss Smith to ensure