Product Description

Wealthy Charles Winthrop (Dan O'Herlihy) dies in a boat accident leaving Adriana Roman (Lana Turner) in the hands of her daughter Lisa (Karin Mossberg). Lisa attempts to drive Adriana insane so she can marry her boyfriend Johnny (George Chakiris) and they can inherit her father's money.Runtime: 98 minFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 085391145066 Manufacturer No: 114506

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73151 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-06-26
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 98 minutes

Customer Reviews

Not Russ Meyer But Still High Camp
I wouldn't put this on the same level as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but then I wouldn't put any film there, except maybe some of Russ Meyer's others, or maybe the Warhol/Morrissey/Dallesandro trilogy, Trash-Flesh-Heat. In any case, this is a highly enjoyable and well done campy romp. Lana Turner is a retired actress who is the only thing standing in the way of her beautiful but gullible step-daughter getting married. The would-be groom is a disgraced medical student who was thrown out of the university for using the lab to make LSD cubes, which he uses to dose people he doesn't like. So the couple decides to spike stepmom's tranquilizers with those funny sugar cubes, hoping to make her go crazy and to thus remove her an an obstacle to their nuptial plans. The psychedelic scenes are completely over the top, and delightfully ridiculous. All the acting is perfect, the set pieces are just what they should be, ditto for the music . . . If you are into 60s acid-laced camp theater, you need this movie.

If you liked "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".....
Then you should definitely add "The Big Cube" to your collection as a companion piece...It has the same trippy, 60s camp value as Russ Meyer's film. You have to wonder what Lana Turner was thinking by joining on to this (the same could be said for George Chakiris, having won his Oscar® for "West Side Story!"). But the film is truly a hoot, in the most unintentional of ways. Never boring with some hysterical LSD/psychedelic psych-outs! Groovy man!

The Big Cube: Truly 60's Classic.
The Big Cube made in 1968 is an excellent film which shows the psychedelic images of the nineteen sixties. The film clearly gives a don't do LSD message to an audience which was heavily experimenting with LSD in the late sixties. George Chakiris makes a very handsome bad guy who is expelled from medical school and sets his designs to Karin Mossberg, who is very beautiful, but don't know much about this actress. Lana Turner steals the movie with her over the top wardrobe, wigs and class. Lana still proves she is more beautiful than most women half of her age. She was 45 when she made this movie. George Chakiris gives an effective performance at the end. Movie pretty much brings the old style movies with storyline to the new era of movies with its nudity. This is a great movie to have in your collection.