Guess What We Learned in School Today?

1970 film by John G. Avildsen

James U. Clarke
Christopher C. Dewey
Dennis Friedland
David Gil

Starring

Dick Carballo
Devin Goldenberg
Zachary Hains

CinematographyJohn G. AvildsenEdited byJohn G. AvildsenMusic byHarper MacKay

Production
company

The Cannon Group

Distributed byCannon Releasing

Release dates

19 May 1970 (1970-05-19) (France)

May 19, 1971 (1971-05-19) (USA)

Running time

96 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Guess What We Learned in School Today? (also released in the United States as I Ain't No Buffalo) is a 1970 film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Eugene Price. The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970 and opened in the United States in 1971. Although it was shot before Avildsen's Joe, it got distribution afterward due to Joe's success.

Tagline: "Love American Style with a touch of X."

Plot

Parents in a small, conservative community want to ban sex education in schools, labeling it a Communist plot. However, the two people leading the charge against sex ed are revealed to be an impotent alcoholic and a gay policeman.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Dick Carballo (as Richard Carballo)	Lt. Roger Manley
Devin Goldenberg	Robbie Battle
Zachary Hains	Lance Battle
Jane McLeod	Rita Battle
Yvonne McCall	Dr. Lily Whitehorn
Rosella Olsen	Eve Manley
Diane Moore	Lydia
Robert Emery	Al

Critical reception

Roger Greenspun of The New York Times did not care for the film at all:

... [T]here are ineptitudes and unrewarding obscurities enough to sink the movie ... The movie it keeps trying to be, however, is an amalgam of social satire and sane sex propaganda and it succeeds with neither ... time and again it comes to look like a series of blackout skits from the more inhibited edges of an exploitation movie.^[1]