Re: 1961 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:18 pm
1961 was a great year for film. It was also a great year for turkeys.
I liked Flower Drum Song and I liked Jeffrey Hunter in King of Kings. The rest of the films on this list, though, deserve their designation as the year's worst.
Parrish is only interesting when Claudette Colbert is on screen as Troy Donahue's mother in her last theatrical film. Although she would go on acting well into her 80s, she would be filmed just once more as Ann-Margret's mother-in-law in the TV mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles 26 years later.
The Young Doctors isn't half bad, but it isn't half good either. Even Fredric March can't save it.
By Love Possessed wastes a good cast in an uninteresting convoluted soap opera.
Ada is warmed over soggy southern mashed politics, although despite her Worst Actress award, Susan Hayward is not the worst one in it. That distinction belongs to Dean Martin as her husband.
The Devil at 4 O'clock is a dud that even Spencer Tracy and a smoldering volcano can't save from tedium.
The Last Sunset is more snooze-fest than western.
Babes in Toyland is an annoyingly amateurish production that bears little to no resemblance to the operetta.
Worst, though, is Sergeants 3, a lame rat pack remake of Gunga Din, which was actually an early 1962 release.
I liked Flower Drum Song and I liked Jeffrey Hunter in King of Kings. The rest of the films on this list, though, deserve their designation as the year's worst.
Parrish is only interesting when Claudette Colbert is on screen as Troy Donahue's mother in her last theatrical film. Although she would go on acting well into her 80s, she would be filmed just once more as Ann-Margret's mother-in-law in the TV mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles 26 years later.
The Young Doctors isn't half bad, but it isn't half good either. Even Fredric March can't save it.
By Love Possessed wastes a good cast in an uninteresting convoluted soap opera.
Ada is warmed over soggy southern mashed politics, although despite her Worst Actress award, Susan Hayward is not the worst one in it. That distinction belongs to Dean Martin as her husband.
The Devil at 4 O'clock is a dud that even Spencer Tracy and a smoldering volcano can't save from tedium.
The Last Sunset is more snooze-fest than western.
Babes in Toyland is an annoyingly amateurish production that bears little to no resemblance to the operetta.
Worst, though, is Sergeants 3, a lame rat pack remake of Gunga Din, which was actually an early 1962 release.