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The Cube is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jim Henson released in USA on 23 february 1969 with Richard Schaal
The Cube (1969)
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Add to a movie listThe Cube is an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly anthology television show NBC Experiment in Television in 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson, and was one of several experiments with the live-action film medium which he conducted in the 1960s, before focusing entirely on The Muppets and other puppet works. The screenplay was co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl.
The teleplay only aired twice: first on February 23 of 1969, with a rerun on February 21 of 1971.
Synopsis
An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" (Richard Schaal), is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam. The furniture changes throughout the play. The main character is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters as a variety of people come through various hidden doors including two people in Gorilla Suits wearing ballerina costumes. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door. So he must find it to leave.Actors
Richard Schaal
(The Man in the Cube)
Jerry Nelson
(Monk)
Tiffany Million
(Decorator)
Don McGill
(Professor)
Trudy Young
(Liza 1)
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