Watch Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979) Free Online

Release Date: 1979

Cast: Dorothy Malone, Ronee Blakley, Anne Heywood, R.G. Armstrong, Jocelyn Brando, Robert Vaughn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Doris Roberts, Donald Pleasence

Categories: Movies, Drama Film

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff is a 1979 American drama film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The screenplay by Polly Platt is based on the 1970 novel of the same title by William Inge. Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970), high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the school's black janitor. The novel's themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. The film was released on videotape with these alternate... MORE

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff is a 1979 American drama film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The screenplay by Polly Platt is based on the 1970 novel of the same title by William Inge. Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970), high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the school's black janitor. The novel's themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. The film was released on videotape with these alternate titles: The Sin, The Shaming and Secret Yearnings. Set in Freedom, a fictional small Kansas town, in 1956, the film focuses on Evelyn Wyckoff, a lonely and depressed 35-year-old high school Latin teacher who no longer finds any satisfaction in her work. She is undergoing therapy with Wichita psychiatrist Dr. Steiner but making little progress. One day she is accosted by Rafe Collins, an African American scholarship student who cleans classrooms at the end of the school day. When the young man makes lewd suggestions and begins to unzip his pants, Evelyn flees in a panic but decides to tell no one what LESS