"Fifty Worst Films Of All Time", Compiled by Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, 1978

"The script, provided by Jacques Deval and Robert Arthur, is meager in lively details, and what there is of it seems to flow rather sluggishly..." Bosley Crowther, New York Times

"Totally dull...unbelievably slow dialogue...dull episodic overlong production...(Una Merkel's) portrayal of Ann Rutlegde must qualify as the worst example of miscasting in the history of cinema." - Anthony Slide, The Films of D.W. Griffith.

"all out preposterous horror" - John Simon, Esquire
"so witless you can't believe it was made by the man who directed The Wild Bunch" - Vincent Canby, New York Times
"the only kind of analysis it really invites is psychoanalysis" - Joy Gould Boyum, Wall Street Journal
"Bring me the head of the of the studio who released this one." - Gene Shalit

"Worst Movie of the Year" - Esquire Magazine
"Atrocious...lame-brained.." - William Wolf
"As uplifting as a whalebone bra - and just as dated" Arthur Cooper, Newsweek.

"A dreadfully silly film...Its horrors are not horrible, its terrors are not terrifying, its violence is ludicrous." - New York Times
"I did it strictly for the money. I was flat broke...I do find it horrifying how many people actually believe all this silliness." David Seltzer. He wrote the screenplay.

"A singularly pallid, tedious and unconvincing drama...Mr. Gable's speeches ring with insincerity." - Frank S. Nugent, New York Times
"Disastrous...Probably the worst biopic ever made." - David Shipman
"Parnell? No! Clark Gable, in his worst miscasting. He looks like a steel-union organizer gone Park Avenue and walks through his part with the heavy tread of the Golem." - Rob Wagner.
"If Parnell was as woozy a goof as Gable portrayed him in the picture, Ireland still wouldn't be free." Carole Lombard, who was married to Gable at the time.

"It makes little or no sense. Lee Van Cleef simply does his thing which consists of moving his right nostril (the rest of his face remains as immovable as stone). Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News.

"A crazy mixed up movie...The seven man cast has to keep pretty busy, especially the not-too-threatening robot, who resembles a gorilla from the neck down." Los Angeles Times
"Scripting and majority of performances rarely rise to a professional level...of the principlas, the less said the better." - Variety

"Absolutely the worse science-fiction flick ever made, bar none" - Monster Times
"Overly saccharine and nonsensical." - Boxoffice
"Obvious and square cut as cheese." - Howard Thompson

"About as simple and uncerebral as it can get without coming to a dead stop." - New York Herald Tribune
"trying to prove that God is on the size of the biggest production numbers."
"By the time (Father Conroy) has straightened out their affairs, one feels him to be a sentimental, meddling cluck..." - Hollis Alpert
"Tasteless and disturbing..." - Variety

"The film may well owe a debt to society for its cosmic breaches of taste, morality and intelligence. Penance is due." - Cue
"Dialogue is often banal and bromides rub uneasy shoulders with Biblical quotations." - Variety

"monotonously and unfailingly vacuous.." - Richard Davis, Films and Filming
"foolish and altogether improbable..." - Hollywood Reporter

"It is the kind of pontification that any kid who has ever dozed through a history class has learned to see through." - Richard W. Nason, New York Times

"One of the worst monster films ever...an idiotic kiddie show!...The theme song can drive you right up a ceiling." - The Monster Times

"As bad as any movie ever made" - Leonard Maltin
"So tasteless that it represents some sort of nadir in American cinema...Myra Brekinridge is about as funny as a child molester.." - Time Magazine
"a self-consciously mod disjointed patchwork of leers vulgarity and general ineptness." - William Wolf
"a single monument to sterile fantasies and pathetic impotence." - Wall Street Journal
"Myra Breckinridge collapses like a tired smirking elephant with no place to go..." - Howard Thompson, New York Times

"the story is a heavy accumulation of dramatic cliches...a big sprawling sometimes tedious picture in which the note of heroism if beaten like a drum to the accompanying clash of color symbols." - Bosley Crowther, New York Times
"Frankly claptrap." - Newsweek

"I got one clear impression from Last Year at Marienbad, and that was of Resnais and Robbe-Grillet grinning wickedly at each other above the heads of a trustful public that was flagging its poor little brain into some notion of what in hell the picture is all about." - Robert Hatch, The Nation
"So repetitous, slow-moving and difficult to understand that it made me drowsy. This film is really the oddest thing ever shown on the screen...I think it's a lot of pseudo-artistic HOOEY." - Hazel Flynn, Hollywood Citizen-News

"If this Peter Bogdanovich fiasco were any more of a dog, it would shed...The film cost $6 million - it looks like Fox spent $100 on Bogdanovich, $900 on Burt Reynolds and $5,999,000 on singing and dancing lessons for Cybill Shepherd." - John Barbour, Los Angeles
"This is failure so dismal that it goes beyond failure. The musical is not trash, exactly. Its rottenness lies in the pretension and inflated ego behind its conception, in its pandering to film-buff nostalgia, and in some of the sorriest casting ever to sink a production..." Hollis Alpert, Saturday Review
"I think we bombed!" Burt Reynolds, who starred in the movie.

"predictable, bland narrative...most of the violence is staged unimaginatively and quickly become frustratingly boring" - Hollywood Reporter
"Trouble Man is a big rip-off, copy cat in form and inept in execution.' - Los Angeles Herald Examiner

"Scriptwise, the film crawls with cliches...There is also an improbable east of movement behind enemy lines, but then, when Korea looks so much like Chatsworth, we suppose anything is possible." - Los Angeles Times

"(Monster's faces) are so phoney as to become almost fascinating, particularly a cluster of what looks like sausages in their mouths...The standard of acting is very weak, including the most expressionless and inanimate heroine of all time" Monthly Film Bulletin
"The question in The Horror of Party Beach" is, which is more horrible, the monsters or the rock 'n' roll? The most curious aspect...is why, after the first couple of homicides, the rest of the victims linger around the disaster area, waiting for the worst. Audiences lured into the theater may ask themselves the same thing."

"...an execrable film. Indeed it is very possibly the worst major production to come out of Hollywood in the 1960's." - Life Magazine
"A terrible movie...meretricious nonsense from start to finish." - New Yorker
"hopelessly corny cliched soap opera." - William Wolf, Cue

"Lowest Rating...Ridiculous Thriller." - Steven H. Scheuer

"Insipid...Dondi is played by one of the most untalented child performers ever to appear on the screen." - Steven H. Scheuer
"Intolerably sweet...syrupy...the lovableness bit simply grows intolerable." - Variety
"Watch this film and you'll know why David Janseen became a fugitve!" - Leonard Maltin

"A technicolored cloud of charming horsemen, childish dialogue and redimentary romance...An illusion persists that this Genghis Khan is merely Hopalong Cassidy in Cathay. Should get a few unintentional laughs..." - A.H. Weiler, New York Times
"The terror of two continents takes almost two full hours to win one girl, so the script just skips the conquest of Asia. It apparently wasn't very important anyway." - Time
"A well-nigh perfectly horrible example of Hollywood's prostitution of history..." - Moira Walsh, America Magazine
"One of Wayne's worst. He simply shudders when anyone mentioned this film." Alan G. Barbour, The Films of John Wayne