Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

atlasmb A potential treasure trove for MST3000, "The Big Cube" is a hideously flawed film from the year man first walked on the moon. One (the moonwalk) was a technological mile stone; the other represents the nadir of filmmaking.Still, there are laughs to be had by viewing this flop that features Lana Turner as a retired actress who marries a man with a spoiled daughter who resents her new stepmother. The daughter meets a fortune-hunting medical student (played by George Chakiris) who dabbles with the manufacture and ingestion of LSD. He manipulates the daughter into a deadly scheme, hoping to pocket some of the family coin.George and the other young actors get to speak lines that might come from a "Laugh-In" skit. It's all very groovy yet heavy, man. Expect go-go boots and psychedelic nonsensical graffiti. Meanwhile, the "adults" exist in a soap-opera world. The horrendous dialogue is complemented by bad acting, insipid and annoying music, amateurish camera work and lighting, a pointless and meandering plot, confusing editing, and laughable characterizations.The end result is a film that feels like a compilation of freshman year film students' projects edited into one incongruous and inferior mess.

JLRMovieReviews As a huge Lana Turner fan, I had avoided this film, as I had heard and read bad things about it. But the interesting thing about having low expectations is being pleasantly surprised. This film, having Lana married to millionaire Dan O'Herlihy and being stepmother to his daughter and having control of his money and her life (and her love life!) after he dies, isn't as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it keeps one's interest and keeps you guessing all the way through it, with elements similar to Lana's usual melodramatic movies. When her stepdaughter and lover want the money coming to her from daddy's will, they take drastic measures. Costarring good actors Richard Egan and George Chakiris, this is definitely a different type of Lana Turner film with its 1970s feel and groove and use of the big cube, but I wouldn't necessarily call it an embarrassment for Lana; it certainly entertains. Some may call it camp or unintentionally funny. But its dialogue and acting didn't seem to me to be overblown or extreme; it seems more of a state-of-mind film, with Lana being tortured psychologically. I can just imagine a 70s audience watching this and doing who knows what at the same time. I would definitely watch this again, unlike Bittersweet Love, another Lana film I just discovered. If you come across this on Turner Classic Movies, watch and enjoy this less-than-classic but otherwise entertaining Lana Turner film.

oldblackandwhite If you are the type who is stupid enough to do drugs, you may even be stupid enough to like this cheap, silly U.S.-Mexican production, The Big Cube. It finds fading, scandal-plagued sex symbol Lana Turner at the absolute bottom of her career, fallen in with a bunch of young, mod, hipster, druggies and a lot of just plain old bad actors.The plot had some promise, at the first anyway. One of those "let's drive mommy wacko" thrillers. But about two-thirds of the way through, it does a complete turn about to a "let's save poor old mommy from the loony bin", psychodrama. Sounds like a horrible muddle, huh? Is that. A strange creature by the name of George Chakiris leads the bad acting brigade, but he gets a lot of help from a gaggle of young hipsters so repulsive, you may find yourself wanting to bash their alleged brains out with a fondue dish. On the adult side Richard Egan, wooden even in the action parts for which he was best suited, is simply embarrassing here, miscast in a role where he has to act sensitive-like.This movie is a serious stinker. Only for die-hard fans of Lana Turner, desperate insomniacs, and those wishing to check out the 1960's counter-culture for reasons known but to themselves and God. Others should avoid The Big Cube as if it were a big bubonic plague bacillus.

moonspinner55 Mexico-U.S. co-production is misguided, if still entertaining, mishmash of the old and the new. Lana Turner (looking sadly aged, even in softened close-up) plays a retired stage actress who has married a wealthy financier, only to have him perish in a boating accident; meanwhile, Turner's straight-laced step-daughter wants to marry a handsome cad, but Lana's objections over the union are keeping the young woman from receiving her full inheritance. The couple attempts to drive Lana crazy by putting the psychedelic drug LSD into her sedatives--and then goading her into committing suicide! Interesting solution to the mental problems Lana ends up having (reenacting her traumatic events on the stage) nearly makes this ridiculous plot worthwhile; unfortunately, director Tito Davison ends the picture with an extended freak-out sequence, complete with George Chakiris crawling on the floor talking to an ant. Davison has some good ideas (and the film's optical effects and cinematography are good), but he needed a judicious editor to eliminate the "modern" excesses which have now turned the film into a camp-fest. ** from ****