Razzie Awards = the Prequel
Formed in 1980, The Razzies are an awards banquet that honors the worst in films from a particular year. They are the opposite to the Oscars. This list does not contain the films that have won the Worst Picture award from the beginning in 1980 to present day. It contains the filmes that might have won a Razzie from the 1920s through 1979. Here are they. Enjoy!
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- DirectorTerence YoungStarsAudrey HepburnBen GazzaraJames MasonWhen her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsPeter FramptonBarry GibbRobin GibbA small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.
- DirectorsJohn BoormanRospo PallenbergStarsRichard BurtonLinda BlairLouise FletcherA teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsDennis MorganShecky GreenePhil LeedsIn 1924, Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress but the dog that followed her becomes the star. Hollywood has its own rules of success.
- DirectorsPerry SallesMichael SarneStarsVera FischerPerry SallesRodolfo ArenaTanya is a top model married to Roberto, head of an advertising agency, who runs it with his twin Alex. They are doing business with an industrialist and his assistant Pedro. Roberto, Alex and their buddies go to a striptease and they lie to Tanya to cover themselves. Tanya feels consumed by the stifling, oppressive celebrity machine and tires of Roberto's controlling nature and being exploited further as a sex object, so she runs away to a small town and meets a hippie painter named Cicero, to whom she feels magically attracted. They have an affair, but his unpredictable temperament soon disillusions her, and she feels everything is useless, leaves again and moves on alone.
- DirectorWyn CooperStarMadonnaA young woman eats raw eggs.
- DirectorPeter FondaStarsKelly BohanonKevin HearstCaroline HildebrandScientists at a government-funded research complex use a time machine they developed to secretly 'transfer' young researchers fifty-six years into the future after they discover Earth is soon to suffer a worldwide disaster.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsMarcello MastroianniSydne RomeHugh GriffithDuring her Italian vacation, a beautiful young American tourist finds herself a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by some odd people.
- DirectorGustav WiklundStarsChristina LindbergHeinz HopfBjörn AdellyYoung Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsFlorence HendersonToralv MaurstadChristina SchollinBased on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsDavid NivenFaye DunawayAlan AldaIn World War 2 four American sailors are marooned in the Philippines and encounter an old vessel captained by Commander Finchhaven, apparently a relic from WW1. They help him get his engine going and ask him for a passage to Australia.
- DirectorRomain GaryStarsJean SebergMaurice RonetPierre BrasseurOn a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives close by. Meanwhile, her old rich husband and his sinister chauffeur are looking for her.
- DirectorsVal GuestKen HughesJohn HustonStarsDavid NivenPeter SellersUrsula AndressIn an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsPeter NooneKarl GreenKeith HopwoodBritish beat group Herman's Hermits, on tour in the USA, is offered an opportunity to have a spaceship named after the group. Several people seem to care whether it happens or not.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsShirley MacLainePeter UstinovRichard CrennaA former Notre Dame football star crash lands over a mythical Arabian country while on spy mission to the USSR. He is then forced by the football-obsessed king of that country to coach their football team .
- DirectorSidney MillerStarsMary Ann MobleyJoan O'BrienNancy SinatraA college co-ed tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher who tries to pursue her.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsBrett HalseyClaudia MoriFrançoise FabianBenvenuto Cellini knows no obstacles when it comes to creating a work of art or conquering the heart of a woman.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsBrigitte BardotRobert HosseinJean-Marc BoryA young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
- DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsJean-Paul BelmondoPhilippe NoiretDany RobinAnthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsHisaya MorishigeSetsuko HaraYôsuke NatsukiA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.
- DirectorsJacques TourneurBruno VailatiMario BavaStarsSteve ReevesMylène DemongeotSergio FantoniA Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsTom EwellMickey RooneyMickey ShaughnessyThree horse-racing lovers turn to robbery to appease their gambling appetites. Max is the nice, easygoing, vitamin-gulping guy with an out-sized swallow tube; Gus is his penniless, parasitic friend and Rocky is their bookie pal. Gus persuades Max that with his unusual swallow tube they could rob a bank and Max could swallow the note to be shown the teller after the money is handed over. They pull off the robbery with incredible ease, become involved with a vitamin-gulping horse, lose their bank roll, try robbery again - and wind up behind the Eight Ball.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsRonald ColmanHedy LamarrGroucho MarxThe Devil and the Spirit of Man argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJohn IrelandBeverly GarlandAllison HayesAfter her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place temporarily as Marshal of a small Western town.
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsBetty GrableSheree NorthRobert CummingsTwo girls on the lam hide out in a college fraternity.