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...Screenplay by PAUL GEGAUFF...
...Screenplay by MAXIMILIAN SCHELL...
Directed by PETER YATES Screenplay by TOM MANKIEWICZ...
This won't do but it could have. Mother, Jugs and Speed involves the escapades of a bunch of Los Angeles ambulance drivers who hustle catastrophe for $42.50 plus 500-a-mile. Tom Mankiewicz's screenplay owes more than it ought to MASH, but it has found a way to get into the underbelly of a city, to survey the twilight territory where tragedy and comedy trip over each other and make an unsightly mess. What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks...
...Harvard education led me into an interesting way of looking at the world," William B. Beekman '71, a freelance screenplay writer living in California, said last week. "I'm a fairly balanced person, but that doesn't help me in the practical world," he continued...