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They might not have bankable stars or clear selling points, but each of the obscure gems in these Cult Camp Classics sets come beautifully restored and ready to please their hungry devotees. The second volume includes three tales of damsels in distress: Lana Turner stars in the ever-campy drama The Big Cube (Tito Davison, USA, 1969, 98 mins.), about a young girl with a sleazy boyfriend (George Chakiris) and a quarrel with her mother, a former actress; In Freddie Francis' Trog (Great Britain, 1970, 91 mins.), a strange creature suspected of murdering students in England is captured and brought to anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford), who believes this "Trog" is the missing link between man and ape. She begins to study and educate the creature when it escapes and abducts a little girl; Caged (John Cromwell, USA, 1950, 96 mins.) is an odd inclusion in that it's a serious and rather successful portrait of a terrified young woman (Eleanor Parker) sent to prison for being an accomplice to a robbery and coming out a hardened criminal after run-ins with the likes of Agnes Moorehead.
Tito Davison/Freddie Francis/John Cromwell---USA/Great Britain---1950-1970---295 mins.
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