The Golden Turkey Award Winners on Blu-Ray

[Spootnek]

The Golden Turkey Award Winners
on Blu-Ray (or, more likely, DVD)

Red = Not Released On Region A Blu-ray Yet!

The Most Embarrassing Movie Debut of All Time: Paul Newman in The Silver Chalice (1954)
The Most Ridiculous Monster in Screen History: Robot Monster (1953)
The Worst Performance by a Popular Singer: Tony Bennett in The Oscar (1966)
The Worst Title of All Time: Rat Pfink A Boo Boo (1966)


The Most Brainless Brain Movie of All Time: They Saved Hitler's Brain (Alternate Title: The Madmen Of Mandoras) (1964)
The Most Badly Bumbled Bee Movie of All Time: The Swarm (1978)
The Worst Casting of All Time: John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror (1956)
The Worst Performance by a Politician: John Lindsay in Rosebud (1975)


The Worst Two-Headed Transplant Movie Ever Made: The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
The Worst Rodent Movie of All Time: The Food Of The Gods (1976)
The Worst Performance by a Novelist: Norman Mailer in Wild 90 (1968)
The P.T. Bamum Award for the Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity: The Terror Of Tiny Town (1938)


The Worst Musical Extravaganza in Hollywood History: At Long Last Love (1978)
The Ecclesiastical Award for the Worst Performance by an Actor or Actress as a Clergyman or Nun: Sister Mary Tyler Moore in Change Of Habit (1969)
The Worst Performance by an Actor as Jesus Christ: Ted Neeley in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
The Worst Blaxploitation Movie Ever Made: Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)


The Biggest Ripoff in Hollywood History: King Kong (1976)
The Worst Credit Line of All Time: The Taming Of The Shrew (1929)
The Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography: Him (1974)
The Worst Performance by an Animal: Dinky The Chimp in Tarzan And The Great River (1967)


The Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time: Attack Of The Mushroom People (Alternate Title: Matango The Fungus Of Terror) (1963)
The Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts: Government Girl (1943)
The Most Ludicrous Racial Impersonation in Hollywood History: Marlon Brando as a native of Okinawa in The Teahouse Of The August Moon (1956)
The Most Obnoxious Child Performer of All Time: David “Dondi” Kory in Dondi (1961)


The Worst Film You Never Saw: Billy Jack Goes To Washington (1977)
The Most Inane and Unwelcome “Technical Advance” in Hollywood History: Percepto for The Tingler (1959)
The Worst Lines of Romantic Dialogue in Movie History: Northwest Mounted Police (1940)


<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

The Voice Of The People:
Our Readers Choose the Worst Films of All Time:
Dishonorable Mention

Moment By Moment (1978) 99 votes
Gable and Lombard (1976) 106 votes
Godzilla's Revenge (1969) 110 votes
The Oscar (1966) 119 votes


Damien: Omen II (1978) 125 votes
Lost Horizon (1973) 134 votes
Boom! (1968) 152 votes
Grease (1978) 167 votes


At Long Last Love (1975) 186 votes
Airport 1975 (1974) 209 votes
Orca (1977) 217 votes
Airport 1977 (1977) 219 votes


Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) 233 votes
The Swarm (1978) 249 votes
King Kong (1976) 283 votes


<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

The Worst Film of All Time:
First Runner-Up:
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 384 votes


<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

The Grand-Prize—Sweepstakes Award:
The People’s Choice for the Worst Film of All Time:
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) 393 votes


<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

The Golden Turkey Awards by Harry and Michael Medved came out in 1980 and we got it.
Our copy was wore out and falling apart by the time Son Of Golden Turkey Awards came out.
Once I discovered eBay, one of the first things I bid on (and won) was a new copy of The Golden Turkey Awards.
I also got the other movie books by the Medveds.
Since 1980 I have been trying to see all the winners (and losers) in this book so far I've seen all but two of the winners: Wild 90 & the lost film Him.

Links to two other Medved Books:
The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time (1978)
Son Of Golden Turkey Awards (1986)

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

Note: Of the films with no official releases:
The Taming Of The Shrew (1929) is linked to the video on the Internet Archive.
The lost film Him (1974) is linked to a lengthy online article about the history of the hunt for it.

[RCRochester]

FYI, you posted the wrong cover image for Tarzan and the Great River.

Otherwise, great thread idea. I remember reading the Fifty Worst Films Of All Time years ago and enjoyed it, though I didn't agree with all the selections. Has someone already created a thread for the films in that book?

[noirjunkie]

"The Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts"

This seems oddly specific.

[Spootnek]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

FYI, you posted the wrong cover image for Tarzan and the Great River.

Thanks, I fixed it!

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Otherwise, great thread idea. I remember reading the Fifty Worst Films Of All Time years ago and enjoyed it, though I didn't agree with all the selections. Has someone already created a thread for the films in that book?

I have that book too! Maybe I'll do it.

[Spootnek]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

"The Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts"

This seems oddly specific.

Apparently, Johnny Carson used Sonny Tufts name a lot as a punchline when talking about bad acting. And this book came out in 1980 when he was still on.

[Markgway]

The Voice Of The People: Our Readers Choose the Worst Films of All Time: Dishonorable Mention

Damien: Omen 11 (1978) 125 votes

Really? All the stinkers ever made to choose from and an average sequel to an average original makes the worst ever list?

[Spootnek]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Really? All the stinkers ever made to choose from and an average sequel to an average original makes the worst ever list?

The poll was from 1978 and it was the general public voting so that's why most of the films were from the 5 most recent years. Only 4 films in the top 17 were from before 1973.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Really? All the stinkers ever made to choose from and an average sequel to an average original makes the worst ever list?

The book was written in the late 70s and seeing as it was the days before even home videotape rentals, most of the people voting likely wouldn't have seen a lot of older bad movies unless they caught one of them on late night TV or something, so they picked recent films they didn't like such as Grease(!)

[Jobla]

The sequel book, SON OF GOLDEN TURKEY AWARDS, was much better IMO, because by then many of the films they were writing about had surfaced on VHS. Admittedly, some of the writing for their first two books was done from distant memories.

[Killer Meteor]

Dupe post

[Killer Meteor]

The funny thing about The Golden Turkey Awards book is that it names Ed Wood as worst Director and Plan 9 as Worst Film.

There is not a single mention of Ed Wood or Plan 9 in the Medved's 1978 book The 50 Worse Films of All Time - which lists The Omen, Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible and Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad among the worst! It was the reader's poll which lead to the Medved's acting in 1980 like they'd always known about him, listing him as Worst Director, with Plan 9 getting Worst Film, with Exorcist II as the runner-up.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Spootnek

Apparently, Johnny Carson used Sonny Tufts name a lot as a punchline when talking about bad acting. And this book came out in 1980 when he was still on.

Actually, it was ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN which used poor untalented Sonny as a punching bag on their show.

Not the first time that Carson has gotten credit (?) for a recurring joke that originated on LAUGH-IN. Carson is often mis-credited for the phrase "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" because his show originated from there. But it was actually LAUGH-IN which pioneered that phrase as their show also hailed from Burbank. Carson frequently ridiculed Burbank, no doubt, but he never actually said "Beautiful Downtown Burbank."

Back on topic, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM is the WORST Blaxploitation film? Wow, who knew? I guess I've just been fooling myself all these years for actually enjoying it. Well, if it's in a book, it must be true!

[Dragon78]

The Golden Turkey Award?

[Jobla]

I almost saw PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE--back in 1960!

It was actually playing at a downtown Seattle first-run theater, as the co-feature with the Russian fantasy film THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON. My mother took me to see DRAGON, since I had a Dell movie comic book rendition of it. We watched DRAGON, but then my mother wanted to leave, so we did.

Nearly 60 years later now, I wish we had stayed and watched PLAN 9 as well!

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Killer Meteor

The funny thing about The Golden Turkey Awards book is that it names Ed Wood as worst Director and Plan 9 as Worst Film.

There is not a single mention of Ed Wood or Plan 9 in the Medved's 1978 book The 50 Worse Films of All Time - which lists The Omen, Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible and Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad among the worst! It was the reader's poll which lead to the Medved's acting in 1980 like they'd always known about him, listing him as Worst Director, with Plan 9 getting Worst Film, with Exorcist II as the runner-up.

So how did people get clued in to Ed Wood and Plan 9 and their awfulness then? Was it just from late night TV airings or so bad its good screenings at college campuses? Obviously there were enough people already aware of it to write in and vote for it as the worst.

[El_Fez]

In short: **** Medved and **** the Golden Turkey. The stink of Plan 9 being the worst film ever made still lingers to this day and I can think of a dozen movies that are way worse right off the top of my head.

And Scream, Blacula, Scream is the Worst Blaxploitation Movie Ever Made? The man is a fool.

[Mikezilla3k]

Love that Godzilla's Revenge and the 76 remake of King Kong are on the list.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by El_Fez

In short: **** Medved and **** the Golden Turkey. The stink of Plan 9 being the worst film ever made still lingers to this day and I can think of a dozen movies that are way worse right off the top of my head.

And Scream, Blacula, Scream is the Worst Blaxploitation Movie Ever Made? The man is a fool.

Regardless, Plan 9 IS still a pretty shitty movie. I’m not aggrieved over the reputation it’s been given compared to some of the legit good movies they included in their books (Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia - WTF?).

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by Spootnek

[Show spoiler]The Most Embarrassing Movie Debut of All Time: Paul Newman in The Silver Chalice (1954)
The Most Ridiculous Monster in Screen History: Robot Monster (1953)
The Worst Performance by a Popular Singer: Tony Bennett in The Oscar (1966)
The Worst Title of All Time: Rat Pfink A Boo Boo (1966)
The Most Brainless Brain Movie of All Time: They Saved Hitler's Brain (Alternate Title: The Madmen Of Mandoras) (1964)

The Most Badly Bumbled Bee Movie of All Time: The Swarm (1978)
The Worst Casting of All Time: John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror (1956)
The Worst Performance by a Politician: John Lindsay in Rosebud (1975)
The Worst Two-Headed Transplant Movie Ever Made: The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
The Worst Rodent Movie of All Time: The Food Of The Gods (1976)
(No Release Yet!)
The Worst Performance by a Novelist: Norman Mailer in Wild 90 (1968)
The P.T. Bamum Award for the Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity: The Terror Of Tiny Town (1938)
The Worst Musical Extravaganza in Hollywood History: At Long Last Love (1978)
The Ecclesiastical Award for the Worst Performance by an Actor or Actress as a Clergyman or Nun: Sister Mary Tyler Moore in Change Of Habit (1969)
The Worst Performance by an Actor as Jesus Christ: Ted Neeley in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

The Worst Blaxploitation Movie Ever Made: Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)
The Biggest Ripoff in Hollywood History: King Kong (1976)
The Worst Credit Line of All Time: The Taming Of The Shrew (1929)
The Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography: Him (1974)
The Worst Performance by an Animal: Dinky The Chimp in Tarzan And The Great River (1967)
(No Release Yet!)(Lost Film)
The Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time: Attack Of The Mushroom People (Alternate Title: Matango The Fungus Of Terror) (1963)
The Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts: Government Girl (1943)
The Most Ludicrous Racial Impersonation in Hollywood History: Marlon Brando as a native of Okinawa in The Teahouse Of The August Moon (1956)
The Most Obnoxious Child Performer of All Time: David “Dondi” Kory in Dondi (1961)
The Worst Film You Never Saw: Billy Jack Goes To Washington (1977)

The Most Inane and Unwelcome “Technical Advance” in Hollywood History: Percepto for The Tingler (1959)
The Worst Lines of Romantic Dialogue in Movie History: Northwest Mounted Police (1940)
(No Release Yet!)

The Voice Of The People: Our Readers Choose the Worst Films of All Time: Dishonorable Mention

Moment by Moment (1978) 99 votes
Gable and Lombard (1976) 106 votes
Godzilla's Revenge (1969) 110 votes
The Oscar (1966) 119 votes
Damien: Omen 11 (1978) 125 votes
(No Release Yet!)
Lost Horizon (1973) 134 votes
Boom! (1968) 152 votes
Grease (1978) 167 votes
At Long Last Love (1975) 186 votes
Airport 1975 (1974) 209 votes

Orca (1977) 217 votes
Airport 1977 (1977) 219 votes
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) 233 votes
The Swarm (1978) 249 votes
King Kong (1976) 283 votes


The Worst Film of All Time: First Runner-Up: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 384 votes
The Grand-Prize—Sweepstakes Award: The People’s Choice for the Worst Film of All Time: Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) 393 votes

Here's an updated version of the OP.

[Spootnek]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

Here's an updated version of the OP.

I linked to the actual blu-rays, this update links to the non-blu-ray place-holders.

Example:

Actual Blu-ray of The Food Of The Gods:


Non-blu-ray place-holder of The Food Of The Gods: