Thursday, October 06, 2022

Teacher's Pet (1958)

 A newspaper editor has a low opinion of journalism schools, because, lacking a formal education, he thinks experience is the only way to learn the trade. Under a false identity, he enrolls at a journalism class taught by a beautiful professor.

This film starts out as a serious discussion of the comparative merits of experience and education. I suppose this line of drama would prove commercially unviable, so after the first act the film shifts to a sex comedy with a disguised identity element. It keeps inserting new elements throughout its length, until it "remembers" how it started and tries to tie the loose ends, so to speak. It's all very unsatisfatory, but also moderately entertaining through its set-pieces.

Rating: 46

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