Halliwell's zero-star entries, from both 'Halliwell's 2008 Film Guide' and 'Halliwell's: The Movies That Matter', were far too numerous, and to be able to add notes, etc., to Part I, I needed to stop it at 3200 titles and start this Part II. It officially starts, alphabetically, with 'Evil Under the Sun'.
As I have concluded putting the entries from 'The Movies That Matter' on the lists, I've worked out the percentages--Here goes!:
Awful: 41.45% (143 of the 345)
Fair: 26.96% (93 of the 345)
Good: 22.03% (76 of the 345)
Great: 7.54% (26 of the 345)
Masterpiece: 2.03% (7 of the 345)
As I've completed the entries from the book, the percentages are as follows (for the 21168 entries of the 2008 Film Guide):
Awful: 11882 (or 56.13%)
Fair: 5904 (or 27.89%)
Good: 2212 (or 10.45%)
Great: 869 (or 4.11%)
Masterpiece: 301 (or 1.42%)
Titles listed in the volumes that WEREN'T in Letterboxd:
Ex-Flame (Victor Halperin, 1930)
Expert Weapon (Steven L. Austin, 1993)
Fanny (Mario Almirante, 1933)
[Fanny] The Black Whale (Fritz Wendhausen, 1934)
Fast Food (Stewart Sugg, 1998)
Fast Getaway (Spiro Razatos, 1991)
Fated (Nicola Scott, 2006)
Film--A Screen Play by Samuel Beckett (David Rayner Clark, 1979)
Flaming Brothers (I'm quite sure this is in error, as the '87 of the same title, with same two main actors, directed by Joe Cheung, is listed, and neither this version ('88), or its director, Tony Velesco, are mentioned either here or on IMDb)
Flap (Carol Reed, 1970)
Food of Love (Stephen Poliakoff, 1997)
For You Alone (Geoffrey Faithfull, 1944)
Forty-Five Fathers (James Tinling, 1937)
Friendly Persuasion (TV-movie; Joseph Sargent, 1975)
The Frightened Lady (T. Hayes Hunter, 1932)
[The Frog] Return of the Frog (Maurice Elvey, 1938)
The Garden of Allah (Colin Campbell, 1916)
The Ringer (Letterboxd has Walter Forde's 1938 version, called 'The Gaunt Stranger', but not his 1931 edition)
The Gay Intruders (Ray McCarey, 1948)
[A Gentleman After Dark] Heliotrope (George D. Baker, 1920)
[A Gentleman After Dark] Forgotten Faces (Ewald André Dupont, 1936)
[Gervaise] L'assommoir (Maurice de Marsan and Charles Maudru, 1921)
[Gervaise] L'assommoir (Gaston Roudès, 1933)
The Ghost Breaker (Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille, 1914)
The Ghost Breaker (Alfred E. Green, 1922)
The Girl of the Golden West (Edwin Carewe, 1923)
The Girl of the Golden West (John Francis Dillon, 1930)
The Gold Diggers (Harry Beaumont, 1923)
The Good Old Days (Roy William Neill, 1939)
Goodnight Vienna (Herbert Wilcox, 1932)
The Great Flirtation (Ralph Murphy, 1934)
[The Great O'Malley] The Making of O'Malley (Lambert Hillyer, 1923)
Gun Smoke (Edward Sloman, 1931)
Guru in Seven (Shani Grewal, 1997)
The Heart of a Man (Herbert Wilcox, 1959)
Hell in the Heavens (John G. Blystone, 1934)
Hit Parade of 1947 (Frank McDonald, 1947)
Hobson's Choice (Thomas Bentley, 1931)
Hold Everything (Roy Del Ruth, 1930)
Honor of the Family (Lloyd Bacon, 1931)
House! (Julian Kemp, 1999)
How He Lied to Her Husband (Cecil Lewis, 1930)
The Hundred Pound Window (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1943)
Husband's Holiday (Robert Milton, 1931)
I Take This Woman (Marion Gering, 1931)
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (Lew Landers, 1941)
Idol of Paris (Leslie Arliss, 1948)
Inbetweeners (Darren Paul Fisher, 2001)
Intimate with a Stranger (Mel Woods, 1994)
Isaac Littlefeathers (Les Rose, 1985)
It's Hard to Be Good (Jeffrey Dell, 1948)
Joe Palooka, Champ (Reginald Le Borg, 1946)
Johnny Comes Flying Home (Benjamin Stoloff, 1946)
The Jones Family 3: Back to Nature (James Tinling, 1936)
The Jones Family 5: Borrowing Trouble (Frank R. Strayer, 1937)
The Jones Family 6: Hot Water (Frank R. Strayer, 1937)
The Jones Family 9: Safety in Numbers (Malcolm St. Clair, 1938)
The Jones Family 10: Down on the Farm (Malcolm St. Clair, 1938)
The Jones Family 13: The Jones Family in Hollywood (Malcolm St. Clair, 1939)
The Jones Family 15: On Their Own (Otto Brower, 1940)
Journey to the South (Juan Bautista Stagnaro, 1988)
Joyriders (Aisling Walsh, 1988)
Judex 34 (Maurice Champreux, 1934)
Judgment Deferred (John Baxter, 1951)
Jumping for Joy (John Paddy Carstairs, 1955)
Jury's Evidence (Ralph Ince, 1935)
The Jury's Secret (Edward Sloman, 1937)
Keepers of Youth (Thomas Bentley, 1931)
Kikuchi (Kenchi Iwamoto, 1990)
King of Paris (Jack Raymond, 1935)
King of the Turf (Alfred E. Green, 1939)
Kitty (Victor Saville, 1928)
The Lad (Henry Edwards, 1935)
Ladies Love Danger (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1935)
The Lady's from Kentucky (Alexander Hall, 1939)
Lake Placid Serenade (Steve Sekely, 1944)
The Lambeth Walk (Albert de Courville, 1939)
Lancashire Luck (Henry Cass, 1937)
The Last Adventurers (Roy Kellino, 1937)
The Last Island (Marleen Gorris, 1990)
The Last Man to Hang? (Terence Fisher, 1956)
The Late Twentieth (Hadi Hajaig, 2003)
The Laughing Lady (Paul L. Stein, 1946)
[Legend of the Demon Womb] Urotsukidoji III: Episode 2 (Letterboxd has the 2 parts listed together, rather than separately, as Halliwell, and IMDb, do; Hideki Takayama, 1992)
The Lemon Drop Kid (Marshall Neilan, 1934)
Let Them Live (Harold Young, 1937)
Let's Go Places (Frank R. Strayer, 1930)
Let's Live Tonight (Victor Schertzinger, 1935)
Liebelei (Jacob and Luise Fleck, 1927)
Lies My Father Told Me (Don Chaffey, 1960)
The Light That Failed (Edward José, 1916)
The Light That Failed (George Melford, 1923)
The Lilac Domino (Frederic Zelnik, 1937)
Limelight (Herbert Wilcox, 1935)
Lisbon Story (Paul L. Stein, 1946)
Little Accident (William James Craft, 1930)
The Lone Rider Ambushed (Sam Newfield, 1941)
The Lone Rider Fights Back (Sam Newfield, 1941)
Lost Patrol (Walter Summers, 1929)
Louisiana (Phil Karlson, 1947)
The Love Child (Robert Smith, 1987)
The Luckiest Girl in the World (Edward Buzzell, 1936)
McFadden's Flats (Ralph Murphy, 1935)
The Mad Martindales (Alfred L. Werker, 1942)
The Maestro (Marion Hansel, 1989)
Maestro (TV-movie; Serge Korber, 1985)
[The Magnificent Ambersons] Pampered Youth (David Smith, 1925)
Malachi's Cove (Henry Herbert, 1973)
Mama Loves Papa (Frank R. Strayer, 1945)
The Man Who Lost Himself (Edward Ludwig, 1941)
The Manxman (George Loane Tucker, 1916)
Many Happy Returns (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934)
NOTE: There are some editing errors--For example, the film titles 'His Lordship' and 'Man of Affairs' refer to the same Herbert Mason (1936) film; under HL he gave it 1 star, while MOA got 0 stars. Since HL came first, I stuck with the 1-star rating, but noted the anomaly.
For the other 15 links in the series, here goes:
Classic Zero-Star: boxd.it/SIYo
Classic One-Star: boxd.it/SIYy
Classic Two-Star: boxd.it/SIYS
Classic Three-Star: boxd.it/SIZ2
Classic Four-Star: boxd.it/SIZc
Recent Zero-Star: boxd.it/SJ8I
Recent One-Star: boxd.it/SJ8S
Recent Two-Star: boxd.it/SJ92
Recent Three-Star: boxd.it/SJ9w
Recent Four-Star: boxd.it/SJ9G
Both Guides' Total Zero-Star (Part I): boxd.it/SJjm
Both Guides' Total One-Star: boxd.it/SJjw
Both Guides' Total Two-Star: boxd.it/SJjG
Both Guides' Total Three-Star: boxd.it/SJjQ
Both Guides' Total Four-Star: boxd.it/SJk0
Gritten says that in most cases, especially for classics, he felt Halliwell's exact review was more than sufficient and kept it intact, but occasionally he strongly disagreed and if there are notes, just press 'Read Notes' and I will my best to have any additional review and discrepancy posted and noted; I'm considering putting the entire reviews up but I'm not sure yet, one way or the other. My main goal is to simply get the star-ratings up and the lists complete.
Feel free to drop me a line with any comments, or just to say hello, and I hope you enjoy these lists and find them helpful!~~William Wood (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) =)
