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Thursday, Aug 23, 1990
The New Schoolteacher
Although there is nothing about this earliest-extant feature by Gregory La Cava to suggest the talent that was later to flower in his thirties dramas and screwball comedies, this vehicle for Charles "Chic" Sale (from an Irvin S. Cobb story) is a thoroughly pleasing slice of minor Americana. Filmed in Long Island, its rural charm of village, country lane and old swimming hole is beautifully preserved in this truly superb original print. --WKE The Story: A country schoolteacher's pupils perpetrate many a prank until he wins their admiration with some heroic derring-do.
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