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Our Miss Brooks - Stretch Has A Problem

·30 min·2 clips
Stretch confesses to Miss Brooks that he's in love with his best friend Walter's girl, Harriet Conklin.
Miss Brooks tries to help her star basketball player Stretch, who refuses to go to the state championship because he's in love with Harriet Conklin, his best friend's girl. Meanwhile, the bashful Mr. Boynton attempts to express his romantic feelings for Miss Brooks, and Principal Conklin is desperate to win the championship cup.

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A bashful romance is pushed into farce by sharp translation, brisk dialogue, and clean old-radio timing.

Our Miss Brooks works through a familiar comic engine: Mr. Boynton cannot quite say the plain thing, so Stretch has to translate his romantic nerve into sharper terms for Miss Brooks.

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Why you'd press play

For a schoolroom flirtation that keeps tripping over its own shoes.

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