Monday, June 16, 2008

THE BIG CUBE (1969) - LANA TURNER ON ACID



It's finally been converted to dvd and is available on Netlix. I saw it years ago at film forum and it was hilarious. Basically, two druggies have their eye on millions and scheme to dose Lana Turner with LSD in a sugar cube, have her committed and get her money! The best aspect of the movie is that everyone has dingy regular lighting on them, except Lana Turner who has a special key light with a soft focus that literally follows her everywhere on the sets - it's uncanny and totally obvious and ill! All other production flaws are hilarious and should go down in history.
I don't remember this comedic male striptease from the film, but was not surprised that it's initial cute quality was eventually bashed by a female stripper throwing a glass at him on the stage, to everyones delight and amusement. Typical of hippies and sexual revolution people.

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