Hollywood Hall of Shame: The Most Expensive Flops in Movie History

by Michael Medved and Harry Medved

Book Overview

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399507140
• ISBN13: 9780399507144
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Hilariously funny -- don't believe the naysayers!

The chapter on INCHON is worth the price of the used copy you can find. Disregard the anti-Medved opinions from liberal pundits that have nothing to do with the topic at hand -- this is an outstanding companion piece to the GOLDEN TURKEY AWARDS and must reading for all bad movie fans!

COME ONE, COME ALL...

...come and see one of the most fascinating new museums on the planet! Come and see a museum dedicated to some of Hollywood's greatest disappointments! We got the Duke as Genghis Khan, Lord Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, and Howard Hughes failing to put his money where his mouth is! We got biblical disasters, sinking ships, and D.W. Griffith! Come and join the Brothers Medved, Harry and Michael, as they take you on a tour through the greatest turkeys Hollywood has given us up to 1984. Among the museum's many exhibits are: the historicallly-hysterical Moonie Epic "Inchon," the belly-flopping western "Heaven's Gate," "Mohammad: Messenger of God," the disasterous Howard Hughes films "The Conqueror" (An RKO Radioactive Picture) and "Underwater!," and "Raise the Titanic," which raised the famous luxury liner, but truly sank at the box office! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Seriously, though, this is an entertaining book that belongs in the collections of every film buff. It's sure to make you laugh. Grade: A+

Bombs Away!

Less pungent than their othe satirical works, this takes the Medved brothers into the realm of the hopelessly expensive financial flops of Hollywood. Thus Cleopatra, Heaven's Gate and the Fall of the Roman Empire all feature. Trouble is, few of these films are actually BAD films (I think highly of Cleopatra and FOTRE) so the previous rhythm and flow of the Turkeys is somewhat lost. Still, a fun account of what went wrong.

I am sorry

but harry medved writes the funniest books