Yankee Caleb (Tim Kincaid) arrives in New Orleans and subsequently loses all of his money to the notorious Cesar Dupree (George Lupo). Rather than accept an offering of charity from his southern cousins, he asks for a teaching job. Since all of the white women are educated in convents, his cousin's Creole husband Antoine (Robert Priest) arranges for Caleb to teach a small class of Quadroon women (light-skinned women destined to be mistresses of Creole men) where he falls in love with the beautiful Coral (Kathrine McKee). Their love can never because of tradition and Coral has attracted the eye of Dupree. In order to win her, Caleb is forced to fight a dual he will surely lose. QUADROON is sensitively written and earnestly performed but quickly becomes hard to take seriously from the first line of dialogue, however, as most of the Creoles sound like they are channeling SNL's Czech Brothers (Lupo is particularly hard to take seriously) upstaging the leads. Kincaid (who later made a career directing B movies and adult films as Joe Gage) and McKee (now in casting and production) are sympathetic leads but the stagey blocking of many scenes lends them an air of cliche rather than theatricality or cinematic scope. Apart from the costumes look good, the low budget is apparent in just about every other aspect including the photography and lighting while the settings vary from authentic-looking to studio flats. The potentially exploitable aspects of the film - including an interracial love scene between Caleb and Coral - are handled more tastefully than the advertising suggests.