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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 23, 2022 14:03:26 GMT
Thinking of actors who's last film was a giant stinker. Meaning quality actors/actresses. Ray Dennis Steckler's last film was a pile of dung but so were all the others. Three leap to mind
Errol Flynn - Cuban Rebel Girls Joan Crawford - Trog Bela Lugosi - Plan 9 From Outer Space
I hesitated (briefly) to include Bela and Plan IX as it is entertaining. Trog sure isn't and Cuban Rebel Girls is a classic "Just what were you thinking" films. And many of Lugosi's last movies were much worse. But i know someone will bring it up.
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Post by mikef6 on May 23, 2022 15:47:50 GMT
We would like to think of "Targets" as Boris Karloff's last film but after he finished that he went to Mexico for four el cheapo mundo horror exploitation movies, the last of which, and Karloff's last, was "Fear Chamber" (filmed in 1968 but unreleased until 1971) a torture porn sicko. Karloff died back in his native England in 1969.
CORRECTION: I found some more information. Boris was supposed to go to Mexico for filming but his emphysema prohibited it. So, all of his scenes for all of the four films were shot over a month's time in California. The movies were then stitched together in Mexico. So, it is not easy to say which was his last. As above, "Fear Chamber" was the last to be released.
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Post by stryker on May 23, 2022 19:48:52 GMT
Veronica Lake's last film was the mediocre B-movie cheapie, FLESH FEAST (1970).
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Post by jervistetch on May 24, 2022 2:01:34 GMT
Far from his best. Something tells me that filmmakers might run into trouble if they tried to make this today. I just noticed that Hugh Hefner was one of the producers!  |
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Post by Richard Kimble on May 24, 2022 6:23:40 GMT
Ray Dennis Steckler's last film was a pile of dung but so were all the others. Personally I enjoyed this more than many Best Picture winners  Hell I enjoyed the poster more than many Best Picture winners
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 10:12:59 GMT
Frances Farmer  |
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 10:48:05 GMT
Eleanor Parker  |
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 11:08:18 GMT
Jane Wyman  |
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 11:18:27 GMT
Lana Turner  |
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 11:20:03 GMT
Bette Davis  |
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 11:26:22 GMT
Martha Raye  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 24, 2022 18:03:14 GMT
Ray Dennis Steckler's last film was a pile of dung but so were all the others. Personally I enjoyed this more than many Best Picture winners Hell I enjoyed the poster more than many Best Picture winners I've never seen Rat Pfink a Boo Boo. And it's on Tubi. Might have to check it out. I seen the Incredibly Strange etc, both MST3K and un MSTed. And kept my sanity. I think RDS is one of the Unholy Trinity of Classic Bad Directors. Him, Coleman Francis and The Great Edward D. Wood. Seen most of Coleman's "work" all of Ed's non-porn but only the one RDS film.
Given a choice between Birdman and Plan 9, I'll take Plan IX every time
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 18:16:08 GMT
Ann Sheridan (as if the film were not awful enough at the end she got trampled to death by an elephant)   |
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Post by Isapop on May 24, 2022 18:47:56 GMT
Joan Fontaine's last theatrical feature - a Hammer horror fest:
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Post by Isapop on May 24, 2022 18:55:52 GMT
And Ray Milland's final film makes Joan Fontaine's look like Citizen Kane.
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Post by Richard Kimble on May 24, 2022 22:37:12 GMT
Jane Wyman This has a handful of funny lines (mainly in the Hope/Gleason confrontations) and one funny sequence where Bob plays a golf match against... a chimpanzee!
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Post by timshelboy on May 24, 2022 22:52:09 GMT
Jane Wyman This has a handful of funny lines (mainly in the Hope/Gleason confrontations) and one funny sequence where Bob plays a golf match against... a chimpanzee! It is not the worst I mentioned, for sure, but relative to her mid 40s-50s apex (Hitchcock, Sirk,THE YEARLING, JOHNNY BELINDA,THE GLASS MENAGERIE) - even compared to those undistinguished movies of her long apprenticeship through bits and Bs in the 30s/early 40s - it was a pretty poor Big Screen swansong for Wyman
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Post by teleadm on May 25, 2022 16:58:17 GMT
Walter Mathau said goodbye with the awful comedy Hanging Up! 2000.  |
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Post by teleadm on May 25, 2022 17:12:55 GMT
Aldo Ray's screen farewell in Shock 'Em Dead 1991, a so-called horror-thriller with music and have very low ratings. |
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Post by timshelboy on May 25, 2022 17:54:48 GMT
![]() Joan Blondell had final role in this one - about Vietnam Vet who undergoes a sex change....... (No she didn't play the lead  ) 
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