Title: There's Hope Yet for King Arthur : Legend of the Sword Post by: BoyScoutKevin on June 01, 2017, 06:48:37 PM Just because a film is perceived to have failed at the American box office, does not make it a "bad" film.
Thus, here are some examples of "good" films, and may haps some surprises, that failed at the box office. Ace in the Hole Agatha The Alamo (1960) Alice in Wonderland (1933) Androcles and the Lion Angels in the Outfield (1951) Babe : Pig in the City Beat the Devil Beau Brummell The Big Trail The Blue Bird (1940) The Bounty A Bridge Too Far Brigadoon Bugsy Malone The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Carnival of Souls Citizen Kane To be continued . . . Next time: More examples and Then Title: Re: There's Hope Yet for King Arthur : Legend of the Sword Post by: BoyScoutKevin on June 06, 2017, 04:22:36 PM Continuing . . .
Then A box office failure or considered to have underperformed at the box office. Cross Creek The Great Race Green Fire Green Mansions The Gunfighter Head The Hill The Horse Soldiers Intolerance It's a Wonderful Life Krull The Lady from Shanghai Lady Jane Lair of the White Worm Lonely are the Brave The Long Goodbye Lord Love a Duck Macbeth (1948) To be continued . . . Next time: still more examples and Now Title: Re: There's Hope Yet for King Arthur : Legend of the Sword Post by: BoyScoutKevin on June 20, 2017, 02:09:44 PM Continuing . . .
Still more examples The Magnificent Ambersons Malaya The Manchurian Candidate Member of the Wedding The Misfits Moby Dick (1956) The Mountain The Mud lark The Naked and the Dead Night of the Hunter Nightmare Alley Only the Valiant The Ox-Bow Incident Plymouth Adventure Prince of Players Prince Valiant Princess Bride The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Now From great to good to no worst than many box office hits. To be continued . . . Next time: and still more examples and Reasons Title: Re: There's Hope Yet for King Arthur : Legend of the Sword Post by: BoyScoutKevin on July 01, 2017, 05:33:53 PM Continuing . . .
And still more examples. The Ruling Class Run of the Arrow The Scarlet Empress Seconds Siren of Baghdad Snow White and the 3 Stooges The Spirit of Saint Louis Stage Fright Storm Center Touch of Evil The Trouble with Harry The Unforgiven (1960) Wilson Yolanda and the Thief Zulu Dawn 7 Faces of Dr. Lao 12 Angry Men (1957) 5000 Fingers of Dr. T Reasons Ahead of its time Badly edited Behind the times Company bankruptcy Different from source material -- Disavowed by actor or director Limited or no release -- Little promotion Mistitled -- Misunderstood screenplay No promotion -- Not what was expected Orson Welles Poor decision making -- Public campaign against film Release date wrong -- Removed from theaters Studio interference -- Subject difficulty or little interest in Too long in length -- Too weird for audience -- Tool wide of release Wrong actor or director -- Wrong audience -- Wrong promotion --Finis-- Next time: a billion here. a billion there. |