The mother of all Clunkers, also the occassion on which charming young starlet Taylor morphs into glitz, and young British actor of great talent Burton morphs into drunk: Clunkerdom has its price.

Proof that Clunkerdom didn't start yesterday -- the KKK as romantic heros in a high cause, offered up to fuel 1920s revival of same aimed at new immigrants.

You won't truly understand Clunkerdom unless you get acquainted with the "bible epic" -- true progenitor to today's new age/sci-fi "epics".

"No movie with a rubber fish in it was ever worth a damn." -- Ernest Hemingway

The nadir of bible-epic Clunkerdom, not even funny for wrong reasons. Gives good book bad name & actually meets U.S. Supreme Court test for porn: "no redeeming social value whatsoever."

So bad it gives the 70s a black eye. Had positive side effect of delivering deadly blows to film careers of both O'Neal and McGraw.

A shameless pitch at teenie date audience and transparent effects kill many decent aspects. Perhaps most critically: DeCapio character can't sketch worth a damn.

Billed "big as Texas," this fake classic based on junk novel is a study in pretense and an early shot at political corectness. Certain scenes majestically saved by Dean and McCambridge.

New level of Hollywood decadence reached as test audiences determine plot twists and end; they apparently liked boiled rabbit, ludicrous kitchen sex, drowned woman rising from the dead.