Cinema: Generation of Vipers

MIXED COMPANY

Directed by MELVILLE SHAVELSON

Screenplay by MELVILLE SHAVELSON and MORT LACHMAN

This movie begins with a sure sign oi trouble to follow: a montage of stills showing cute kids, each representing an ethnic minority, all of them pretty and smiling and irritatingly adorable. Having established this trough at the very outset, Writer-Director Melville Shavelson is free to proceed downward.

Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated...

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