Coach

Everybody loves a blonde winner!

Everybody loves a Winner! so true yet so clichéd. Crown International Pictures was the go to place for B movies in the late 60's, 70's & 80's they did have the formula, no wonder! Today's entry is about a 1978 flick under the simple title of Coach. Starred by the awesome Cathy Lee Crosby, a blonde with the 70's look in her beatiful face and hot body, and yeah the decent amount of acting talent to complete the recipe. Cathy Lee Crosby did the original pilot for the DC Comics' Wonder Woman TV show but, somehow wasn't as good as Lynda Carter who got the role to become bone & flesh Wonder Woman.

Miss Rawlings.

The anti-Woman Principal.

The Kids.

Following a simple storytelling the movie provides us a good amount of entertaining on an area that's been exploited way too many times: The hot teacher that falls in love with one of her gifted students. Crown International Pictures did know a lot about this kind of storytelling since they had released in 1977 the exploitation thriller starred by awesome Angel Tompkins The Teacher. The concept developed in 1978's Coach is somehow lighter than the '77 release and adds a more feet-on-the-ground plot line. Cathy Lee Crosby is hired to become the basketball coach of the Gold Stallions, a failed team who is always beaten game after game. However the movie offers a lot more than training sequences and basketball matches. Miss Randy Rawlings, is a former champion, an athlete with a perfect body and hundreds of medals & ribbons to back her up. The problem is the board of directors don't want to have a female teacher around, they just seem to think men are capable and women are not, period. Miss Rawlings tells them she's capable enough and she won't accept any kind of discrimination just being a woman alone. 

Kyle Reese cheating on Sarah Connors.

The hot teacher & Student Cliché.

The one and only almost nude scene.

Coitus Interruptus.

Once Miss Rawlings is set to training her kids, she falls in love with one of them Jack Ripley (played by a young Michael Biehn, you know the one who played Kyle Reese in The Terminator) so ,they start quite an innocent relationship where we don't really get to see that much from Cathy Lee Crosby, cause they're like in the romantic kind of relationship with little or no sex for us to watch at all. Probably the minor let down of the movie.

Overall, an entertaining movie that takes some time to deliver the main idea of making the Gold Stallions a winner's team and spends most of the time on Miss Rawlings & Jack Ripley's relationship until there is a non explained cheating scene where the story is suddenly skipped for letting us the Gold Stallions make it against the Bulls team. After that the movie is over. 

She almost became Wonder Woman.

Watch it if you wanna have fun. Here'sthe movie trailer:

PS: as a bonus track I give the Cathy Lee Crosby's Wonder Woman pilot: