10 Box Office Bombs From The 1970s That Are Worth Watching

It may be harder than ever to convince the general public to get out to the cinema these days, but previous decades had their fair share of movies that utterly failed to find an audience upon their initial release too. Indeed, while the 1970s popularly revitalized moviemaking in so many ways — especially in America, where the New Hollywood movement of groundbreaking, original auteurs began to take hold along with the cultural idea of the summer blockbuster, with "Jaws" leading the charge — there are a fair share of films that didn't gain cult or mainstream acclaim until much later. Plenty are even still relegated to relative obscurity.

At the very least, movies that flopped initially had more subsequent opportunities for success in the days when moviegoing and watching were more of an