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They're Playing with Fire

1984·96 min

They're Playing with Fire

Directed by Howard Avedis

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A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

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Diane Stevens

Jay Richard

Michael Stevens

Martin 'Bird' Johnson

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Marlene Schmidt

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Marlene Schmidt

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They're Playing with Fire (1984) is about a married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

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Howard Avedis directed They're Playing with Fire (1984).

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