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Top 15 Underrated 1960s Flops (#4 Crashed The Studio)

What if a single flop could erase a studio’s future overnight? In the 1960s, Hollywood finally shook off the old Production Code, cranked budgets into the stratosphere, and promised viewers the moon. But when those wagers missed, the crash rattled every soundstage on Sunset Boulevard. Tonight we’re unsealing fifteen cinematic calamities—films so costly, cursed, or gob-smackingly strange that even their stars sometimes deny they existed. Some have clawed their way back as cult royalty. Others are still radioactive. Either way, each carries a story that proves failure is often louder—and far more revealing—than success. Ready to tour the wreckage? Let’s count them down.
KING RAT (1965)
MAJOR DUNDEE (1965)
THE TRAIN (1964)
55 DAYS AT PEKING (1963)
HE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN (1969)
HELLO, DOLLY! (1969)
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962)
CLEOPATRA (1963)
HEAD (1968)
BARBARELLA (1968)
THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)
ZABRISKIE POINT (1970)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
PERFORMANCE (1970)
PEEPING TOM (1960)

Crash, Burn, Resurrect Fifteen misfires, three ruined studios, and one director exiled to documentary oblivion—yet every wreck we unearthed now glows with strange after-light. King Rat foreshadowed the moral murk of Vietnam films. Major Dundee bred Peckinpah’s bullet-ballet masterpiece. Barbarella taught fashion that space could flirt in metallic pink. And Peeping Tom—reviled as filth—became a cornerstone of film-school curricula. So what’s the real takeaway? Simple: risk ages better than safety. Audiences may punish you today, critics may jeer tomorrow, but time has a talent for flipping verdicts. In Hollywood—as in life—the louder the crash, the richer the legend. Now it’s your turn in the director’s chair: Which sidelined epic deserves a 4 K revival? Which forgotten flop should stay buried? Drop your verdict in the comments, smash that like if cinematic train-wrecks fascinate you, and hit subscribe—because next week we dive into the 1970s disaster that tried to bankroll itself with black-market arms deals. Until then, remember: in show business, failure may be fleeting, but the stories it leaves behind are box-office gold forever.