THE FIFTY WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIMES (AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY)

THE MOVIES

The unbelievable baddies from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster to Myra Breckinridge and Lost Horizon, complete with their irresistibly incredible plots and delicious dismal dialogue. Who could forget The Conqueror with John Wayne as Genghis Khan; That Hagen Girl with Shirley Temple playing Ronald Reagan's illegitimate daughter; or The Terror of Tiny Town, the only musical western in Hollywood history with an all midget cast?

THE STARS

Would you believe that Richard Burton, Jane Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Faye Dunaway and so many others could fall so far and land so hard?

THE PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS

D.W. Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hugues and Samuel Goldwyn were among them. What cloud passed over these moviemen's eyes that they could not see?

THE CRITICS

It takes a truly terrible film to bring out the venomous best in the critic's destructive art.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The money spent, the money lost, and the money paid out by the ultimate victims--the public.

Now you don't have to watch TV until three in the morning to see your favorite film flops violate every standard of intelligence, talent, and good taste. Here they all are in all their awesome awfulness for your masochistic reading pleasure!