My god what a weird movie. I normally love 60's camp but this was just too weird even for me. Poor Lana, her 30 year heavy smoking habit was starting to show in her face and yellow teeth. SHe was still classy looking but the smoking was really taking a toll on her looks here.
This movie isn't even in the bad enough to be good category, it was just horrendous how they even got this made.
I was looking forward to this movie because the TCM blurb made it sound bizarrely appealing. Words cannot do justice to what a stinker it is. I'm a middle-aged woman with an un-blemished record of heterosexuality but I can truly say that the highlight of the movie was when the sleazy redhead took her bra off.
shareShe was the girl from Laugh-In...Pamela Rodgers...whoever cast her in this should have been banned from Hollywood. While she was cute on Laugh-In she was horribly miscast here. It was like watching Annette Funicello do a porn scene. Very disturbing. That frozen expression the blonde had on her face throughout the entire movie was equally bizarre. Her accent was bad enough. Her wardrobe was like the J.C. Penny Miss Teen USA Collection. George Chakiris was way too old to be playing a hip character like that.
Just a weird weird movie. Lana looked tanked on Martini's the whole time. Of course I would be too if I had to say some of that dialogue.
I like this one--it is right up there with Die, Die My Darling
with Tallulah Bankhead. Lana looked gorgeous, but 10 years older
than her actual age. Those matronly hairstyles did not do her
justice.
Lana looked gorgeous, but 10 years older than her actual age. Those matronly hairstyles did not do her justice.I can't believe she was only 48 when she did this "film"! She could easily have passed for 60+. The only thing I recognized at first was the voice. The years, and the 1960's styles, weren't kind to Ms. Turner, poor thing.
Actually folks her 2-3 pack a day smoking habit had more to do with her aging than the clothes or the hair.
It also killed her way too soon. She even kept smoking after having cancer of the throat..very sad
Nicotine is a helluva drug?
shareI regret ever picking up this nasty habit 15+ years ago, and yeah nicotine really is a helluva drug! Right now I'm fighting a cold/flu and for the life of me, all I want is a long drag from my NP 100s. I guess this weed will have to suffice until I get better...
shareWow, you really have an issue about minding other people's business, don't you? I suppose that you're so squeaky clean that you've never indulged in any substance, right?
sharethis is a VERY weird movie!When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I saw this at the Cinema Village revival theatre years ago on a double bill with Trog. The laughter was so loud you could barely hear the fim. I miss seeing movies in theatres like that.
shareBuy a copy and have a party-the result will be the same. I know-I took ''ORGY OF THE DEAD'' to a Birthday party and everyone loved it!. This one should do for an Easter Gathering.
shareIt’s like watching a psychedelic soap opera on Hallucinogens. Too “far out” for it’s own good.
But the acting was solid & the opening theme was great! A unheard of late 60’s piece of drug induced bubblegum. Lots of fun.
Trust me,
Swan
My, you're nosey, aren't you?
You people are crazy Lana did not look 60. People age simple.
shareFINALLY caught it last night on TCM. As others have stated it's not quite in the campy-bad category, at least so far as Lana is concerned. The depiction of drug-crazed hippies is pretty funny, though. (For so-good-its-bad Lana, try and find "Love Has Many Faces.")
Lana is 48, and looks like a 48-year-old beauty who has already had quite a tight facelift. Or two. The wigs are unflattering and the clothes, while not unpleasant on their own, just don't seem to suit Turner. Perhaps the wigs are the real culprit. She wore those Sixties fashions better than, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Lana had kept an admirably slim figure, too. Maybe a bit too slim. (You can see the Lana of "Falcon Crest" here.)
What struck me more than her appearance was the mere fact of the film--it was only two years after her last Ross Hunter production, "Madame X." And while that hadn't been a hit, it was clearly a big-studio production. (And an exceptionally good performance by Lana--the last 30 minutes are harrowing.) "The Big Cube" looked like something she might have done TEN years after "Madame X."
Even more distracting, this seems to be the point when Lana lost her ability to act--at all. Never great, but often very convincing--especially in her juicy youth--Lana's reactions seem stiff and over-done, with popping eyes and a general fuzzy connection to the other actors and the material. Yes, who'd WANT to connect with that trash, but it signaled a decline in her performances from then on.
All that aside, I was happy to finally see it, and whatever one says, she was, still, Lana Turner, and still had the best damn posture of any movie queen!
Lana always struck me as a woman with more than enough confidence and ego to go around, so I never thought I'd say this: poor Lana! Poor, poor Lana!
In her shoes I'd go home and cry every night while working on this ... thing.
And yeah, how could this happen within 24 months of "Madame X"???
Hollywood: weird as ever.
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Nothing to see here, move along.
This wasn't as weird or bizarre as it was awful. The soundtrack was an insult to those of us that like 60's music. The acting was dreadful. We can only hope that whoever did the wardrobe and makeup was run out of the business. Perhaps that's what drove Karin Mossberg out of the business as I see this was her last movie.
shareNo, she was driven out of the business by Popular Demand. She couldn't act, and wasn't all that good looking, either.
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