1961 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts

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Of the films cited by Harvard Lampoon, what was the worst 1961 film you've seen?

King of Kings
1
20%
Parrish
0
No votes
By Love Possessed
0
No votes
The Devil at 4 O'clock
0
No votes
The Last Sunset
0
No votes
The Young Doctors
0
No votes
Ada
0
No votes
Flower Drum Song
0
No votes
Babes in Toyland
2
40%
Sergeants 3
2
40%
 
Total votes: 5

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Re: 1961 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts

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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.
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1961 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts

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The Kirk Douglas Award to the Worst Actor: Richard Beymer, West Side Story
Worst Actress: Susan Hayward, Ada, Back Street
The Celluloid Figleaf (for False modesty): to Warren Beatty , most of whose publicity has been based on his constant statements that he wants no publicity from the fact that he is Shirley MacLaine's younger brother
The Arrested Development Citation (to that adult actor who has displayed the lowest level of mautrity, always awarded to Jerry Lewis: Jerry Lewis
The Merino Award: to Rita Moreno, for sawing West Side Story from Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood
The Roscoe Award: to Natalie Wood, for so gallantly persisting in her career despite a total inability to act
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