The 7 Biggest Box Office Flops of the 1960s

Did you know that Cleopatra cost so much to produce that 20th Century Fox was forced to sell off its own backlot just to stay afloat? Did you know that John Wayne once played Genghis Khan in a film so troubled that the director reportedly bought up every copy to keep it hidden from the public for nearly two decades? ▬Contents of this video▬ 00:00 - Intro 01:01 - Cleopatra 02:45 - The Fall Of The Roman Empire 04:36 - Doctor Doolittle 06:01 - Candy 07:17 - The Chase 08:41 - Hello, Dolly! 10:05 - Paint Your Wagon 11:46 - Outro Like this content? Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/factsverse?sub_confirmation=1 Or, watch more videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkXAntdjbcSJlJnpP4FgdU0swKbnkNgJj Become a Facts Verse member and get access to all videos that contain mature content. Use the link below to get access to even more videos, ad-free. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZpQgX1897wYDLtvzmgyIA/join\ The 1960s were a decade when Hollywood studios gambled enormous fortunes on blockbuster productions, betting that audiences would flock to sprawling epics, lavish musicals, and all-star casts. Sometimes they were right. Most of the time, they were catastrophically wrong. In this video, we count down seven films that became cautionary tales for an entire industry. From the chaos of Cleopatra's Rome to the ill-fated singing cowboys of Paint Your Wagon, these productions drained studio coffers, ended careers, and in some cases, nearly destroyed the companies that greenlit them. We look at how Elizabeth Taylor's one-million-dollar salary helped trigger one of the most expensive productions in Hollywood history. We examine how Doctor Doolittle saddled Fox with another massive loss just years after Cleopatra nearly broke them. We look at the strange case of Candy, a satirical sex comedy featuring some of the biggest names in the business that audiences simply refused to see. And we revisit Hello, Dolly!, an overproduced musical that arrived at exactly the wrong cultural moment, starring a 27-year-old playing a middle-aged widow. This is the story of Hollywood's most spectacular financial failures from one of its most ambitious decades. The 7 Biggest Box Office Flops of the 1960s