The Big Cube

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Category: Thriller
All Genres: Thriller, Drama
Release Year: 1969
Country: USA, Mexico
Runtime: 98
Rating: 5.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Tito Davison
Sound: Mono
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Poor daddy. Bibi was just shedding her inhibitions. So he threw the gang out. He never should have done it. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never.

Poor mama. She stood in the way of the $3,000,000 inheritance. So they spiked her medicine with the big cube. Poor, poor mama.

Such nice kids. They wouldnt hurt a fly. Only people... people... people... people...

Johnny was a medical student who did it all with his chemistry set. And the things he did werent very nice... werent very nice... werent very nice... werent very nice.

A Psychedelic Freak-Out!

Writing by: Edmundo Báez - story
Tito Davison - story
William Douglas Lansford - writer

Produced by: Francisco Diez Barroso - producer (as Francisco Diaz Barroso)
Lindsley Parsons - producer

Cast: Lana Turner - Adriana Roman
George Chakiris - Johnny Allen
Richard Egan - Frederick Lonsdale
Dan OHerlihy - Charles Winthrop
Karin Mossberg - Lisa Winthrop
Pamela Rodgers - Bibi
Carlos East - Lalo
Augusto Benedico - Dr. Lorenz
Víctor Junco - Delacroix
Norma Herrera - Stella
Pedro Galván - University Dean

Music: Val Johns
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Plot Outline: A former actress clashes with her wealthy and spoiled stepdaughter over their inheritance after the death of their protector.
Plot: Adriana Roman is a former actress who marries a wealthy tycoon Charles Winthrop, who dies in a boat accident off the Mexican coast. Winthrops daughter, Lisa, whom despises Adriana, plot to drive her insane with drugs so she and her drug-addict boyfriend, Johnny, can marry and inherit all the money for themselves. When a Broadway playwright, named Frederick Lansdale, and a close friend of Adriana suspects something, he tries to rescue Adriana from the mental hospital where she gets committed and redeem Lisa before Johnny can double cross her.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the cast credits: Screenwriter Bum - Himself. At the end of the credits: Beware the MIBs.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: The speed at which the Formula One cars approach Orso is much, much too slow.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
This is the last film in the series to feature Percy Kilbride.
Although not released until 1955, this movie was actually filmed in 1952, so, although it was the last released film of the series, it was not the last filmed.
The Schine Theatre circuit held the world premiere of this film in 50 of its theatres located in 5 states.