What Price Innocence?

This early plea for sex education has kindly old family physician Mack making house calls and observing the lives of the children he delivered becoming a shambles upon their adolescence. Parker is the tremulous teen whose mother, Gombell, believes that the less said about sex, the better. The innocent ingenue, pregnant, is deserted by her much older seducer, Alexander, and commits suicide. This tour de force by actor-writer-director Mack seems too clinical in its inexorable do-good story line to be a feature film, but it might do well in sex-education classrooms. Interesting for an early glimpse of the 17-year-old Grable in one of her few nonmusical films of the ti...