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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff is a american film of genre Drama directed by Marvin J. Chomsky released in USA on 13 april 1979 with Anne Heywood
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
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Add to a movie listGood 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 version stars Anne Heywood, John Lafayette, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn and, in her final film, Carolyn Jones.
The film was released on videotape with these alternate titles: The Sin, The Shaming and Secret Yearnings.
Synopsis
In 1954 in Freedom, a fictional small Kansas town, Evelyn Wyckoff, a lonely and greatly depressed 35-year-old high-school Latin teacher, no longer finds any satisfaction in her work, in spite of being well-liked by students and colleagues. Attractive but still a virgin, on the verge of premature menopause, her physician Dr. Neal thinks her problems would be solved if she got a love life. He directs her to Dr. Steiner, a Jewish psychiatrist in Wichita. The talks with Steiner help her to alleviate her grief and slowly she acknowledges her craving for love. She starts flirting with Ed Eckles, the friendly bus driver in her trips to Wichita. Ed cares for her and suggests they should have a love affair. She was hesitant about that because Ed was married and of a lower status. When she finally was willing to, Ed had left town for good and she felt distraught.Actors
Anne Heywood
(Evelyn Wyckoff)
Donald Pleasence
(Dr. Steiner)
Robert Vaughn
(Dr. Neal)
Earl Holliman
(Ed Eckles)
Carolyn Jones
(Beth)
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