The Big Cube

Infobox Film
name = The Big Cube


director = Tito Davison
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writer = Edmundo Báez (story) Tito Davison (story) William Douglas Lansford (writer)
starring = Lana Turner Karin Mossberg George Chakiris Dan O'Herlihy Richard Egan
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distributor = Warner Brothers
released = April 30, 1969 "(US)"
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country = United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0064088

The Big Cube is a 1969 Warner Brothers thriller directed by Tito Davison and starring Lana Turner, Karin Mossberg, George Chakiris, Dan O'Herlihy and Richard Egan; it was one of Lana Turner's last movies. It is notable for its aggressive portrayal of LSD use and 60's youth counterculture as vicious evils.

Plot

Lana Turner plays Adriana Roman, a successful stage actress who retires to marry Charles Winthrop (O'Herlihy), a wealthy tycoon. Winthrop's daughter, Lisa (Mossberg), is instantly distrustful of Adriana. When Charles is killed in a boating accident, Lisa's new boyfriend Johnny (Chakiris) capitalizes on that distrust to lead Lisa to believe that her father's death was murder – a charge exacerbated by Adriana's threat, as per her late husband's instructions, to disinherit Lisa if she marries Johnny.

Johnny and Lisa conspire secretly to dose Adriana's sleeping pills with enough LSD to drive her insane. Though they accomplish their goal – and Adriana is committed to a mental hospital – a playwright friend of Adriana's (Egan) suspects foul play. He writes a play detailing Adriana's traumatic experiences and casts her in the lead role, hoping that replaying her experience on stage will cure her.

Cult classic

"The Big Cube" was released in 2007 as part of Volume 2 of Warner Brothers' Cult Camp Classic's "Women in Peril" series, a three-part series that included John Cromwell's "Caged" and the film that gave Joan Crawford her last starring role, Freddie Francis' "Trog". [ [http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Camp-Classics-Women-Peril/dp/B000OHZJGY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1218410696&sr=8-1 "Women in Peril, Vol. 2" on amazon.com] ]

The film is notable not only for its controversial subject matter but for its willingness to cast mind-altering drugs as a central villain.

Though the opening credits brag of "introducing" Karin Mossberg, she never made another film. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609126/ Karin Mossberg on imdb.com] ]

References

External Links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064088/ "The Big Cube" on imdb.com]