The history of cinema, Tim Robey writes, tends to be told via its most dazzling hits. But a more interesting, and bathetic, picture might emerge if you were to ignore the triumphs and exhume the flops from Hollywood’s graveyard.

In Box Office Poison, an entertainingly gossipy book, the Telegraph UK film critic romps through 26 of the most commercially unsuccessful films ever made, none of which came close to making their money back.

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