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Greatest bad movies of all time / by Phil Hall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Phil, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Reviews.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 245 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, GA : BearManor Media, [2013]
- Summary:
- These are the films that inspire wonder -- you are left wondering how seemingly intelligent people could gather together and spend money to create such bizarre productions. From A-list atrocities to Grade-Z zaniness, 100 of the most warped anti-classics have been gathered together for this celebration of cinematic kookiness. Relive the spectacle of John Wayne as Genghis Khan, Halle Berry as Catwoman, Jack Palance as Fidel Castro, and Jerry Lewis as a Gore Vidal-inspired extra-terrestrial. Sing along with a naked Anthony Newley, tap your toes to a "Pennsylvania Polka" dance number in the middle of an unauthorized remake of A Streetcar Named Desire, watch a suicidal Elizabeth Taylor run amok in Rome, and appreciate Coleridge's poetry with topless women. Hook up with Edward D. Wood Jr., Phil Tucker, Tommy Wiseau, and their peers in the so-bad-they're-good genre, and marvel at how cinema royalty including Stanley Kubrick, George Cukor, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Clint Eastwood could conceive celluloid debacles of an unprecedented scale.
- Contents:
- Abbott and Costello go to Mars
- The adventures of Ford Fairlane
- The adventures of Pluto Nash
- Airport 1975
- Alice in Wonderland in Paris
- All this and World War II
- At long last love
- Atoll K
- The Babe Ruth story
- Battlefield Earth
- Beat the devil
- Beyond the sea
- The Bible: In the beginning
- Birdemic: Shock and terror
- The black cauldron
- Black devil doll from hell
- The blue bird
- Boys beware
- Bubble
- The Buster Keaton story
- Butterfly
- Can Heironymus Merkin ever forget Mercy Humppe and find true happiness?
- The cat in the hat
- Catwoman
- Chariots of the gods
- Che!
- Christabel
- The conqueror
- The creeping terror
- Dance hall racket
- A dirty shame
- Dogarama
- Don's plum
- Don't worry, we'll think of a title
- The dragon lives again
- The driver's seat
- Empire
- The fat spy
- Fear and desire
- Gamera
- The giant claw
- Gigli
- Godzilla vs. Megalon
- Goodbye, Norma Jean
- The green cockatoo
- Hammersmith is out
- Harvard man
- Head
- Health
- The hottie & the nottie
- Hugo the Hippo
- The human centipede (first sequence)
- If footmen tire you, what will horses do?
- In old Chicago
- Inchon
- The iron petticoat
- The jazz singer
- Joan Rivers: A piece of work
- King Lear
- Klezmer on Fish Street
- The last of the secret agents?
- Lost horizon
- The Maltese bippy
- Mame
- Manos, the hands of fate
- The merchant of Venice
- Mr. Arkadin
- Mr. Freedom
- Moment by moment
- Mother Riley meets the vampire
- Mommie dearest
- Mourning becomes Electra
- Move
- Mystic River
- The Negro soldier
- Paul McCartney really is dead: The last testament of George Harrison?
- Plan 9 from outer space
- Reefer madness
- Renaldo and Clara
- The room
- Santa Claus
- Santa Claus conquers the Martians
- Sextette
- Sh! The octopus
- Shanghai surprise
- Song of Norway
- Staircase
- Starcrash
- A streetcar named desire
- Teenagers from outer space
- The terror
- The terror of Tiny Town
- Triple trouble
- The Turkish Wizard of Oz
- Valley of the dolls
- Visit to a small planet
- The wild, wild world of Jayne Mansfield
- The wild world of Batwoman
- Wizard of Oz
- Zabriskie point.
- ISBN:
- 9781593937317
- 1593937318
- OCLC:
- 852829128
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