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Here Come the Co-Eds

1945 · 90 min

A breezy, silly slapstick romp full of rapid-fire gags and harmless chaos that you can half-watch while folding laundry.

Tagline
They're the Teacher's Petters...In a Girl's School!
Overview
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • class
  • justice
  • sport
  • found family
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour9
Realism3
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Jean Yarbrough
Written by
Arthur T. Horman, John Grant
Starring
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha O'Driscoll, Peggy Ryan, Lon Chaney Jr., Donald Cook, Charles Dingle, June Vincent
Cinematography
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Runtime
90 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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