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59% Critic Match
Here Come the Co-Eds
“They're the Teacher's Petters...In a Girl's School!”
5.9 / 10• 1945• 1h 30m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Bud Abbott
Slats McCarthy
Lead
Lou Costello
Oliver Quackenbush
Martha O'Driscoll
Molly McCarthy
Peggy Ryan
Patty Gayle
Lon Chaney Jr.
Johnson
Donald Cook
Dean Larry Benson
Charles Dingle
Jonathan Kirkland
June Vincent
Diane Kirkland
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jean Yarbrough's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Here Come the Co-Eds is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
