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Star Trek Review: AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD
Director Marvin Chomsky's, "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD," is a weak, forgettable Sci-Fi travesty. Chomsky also directed "Day of the Dove" and "All Our Yesterdays"..
Flamboyant lawyer, Melvin Belli ("Wild in the Streets", "Gimme Shelter") made his dramatic television debut as the alien, Gorgan. Although he may sizzle in the courtroom, on the screen here he merely fizzles.
Belli's son, Caesar, plays Steve, one of the hallucination wielding children. Since he is a lawyer now also, the younger Belli seems to have "grokked" the family's true calling.
The idea of the Enterprise crew, at the mercy of powerful, hallucination inflicting children, is pretty silly. Why didn't Captain Kirk have Mr. Spock mind-meld the crew so they could resist the illusions? Why ask why?
A scene where Kirk brings the kids back to their senses, by showing them home movies of their dead parents and their tombstones, is a bit squirmy. Writer Edward Lakso is the guilty party here.
"AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD" will be rather unwatchable for most Sci-Fi viewers. People who don't dig Melvin Belli, may enjoy watching the big shot lawyer make a fool of himself. Case dismissed!
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