Guess What We Learned in School Today?

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Guess What We Learned in School Today?
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by John G. Avildsen
Written byEugene Price
Produced by
  • James U. Clarke
  • Christopher C. Dewey
  • Dennis Friedland
  • David Gil
Starring
  • Dick Carballo
  • Devin Goldenberg
  • Zachary Hains
CinematographyJohn G. Avildsen
Edited byJohn G. Avildsen
Music byHarper MacKay
Production
company
Distributed by Cannon Releasing
Release dates
  • 19 May 1970 (1970-05-19)(France)
  • May 19, 1971 (1971-05-19)(USA)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Guess What We Learned in School Today? (also released in the United States as I Ain't No Buffalo) is a 1970 film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Eugene Price. The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970 and opened in the United States in 1971. Although it was shot before Avildsen's Joe , it got distribution afterward due to Joe's success.

Contents

Tagline: " Love American Style with a touch of X."

Plot

Parents in a small, conservative community want to ban sex education in schools, labeling it a Communist plot. However, the two people leading the charge against sex ed are revealed to be an impotent alcoholic and a gay policeman.

Principal cast

ActorRole
Dick Carballo (as Richard Carballo)Lt. Roger Manley
Devin GoldenbergRobbie Battle
Zachary HainsLance Battle
Jane McLeodRita Battle
Yvonne McCallDr. Lily Whitehorn
Rosella OlsenEve Manley
Diane MooreLydia
Robert EmeryAl

Critical reception

Roger Greenspun of The New York Times did not care for the film at all:

... [T]here are ineptitudes and unrewarding obscurities enough to sink the movie ... The movie it keeps trying to be, however, is an amalgam of social satire and sane sex propaganda and it succeeds with neither ... time and again it comes to look like a series of blackout skits from the more inhibited edges of an exploitation movie. [1]

See also

References

  1. Greenspun, Roger (20 May 1971). "Original New York Times review". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2010.