Galloway on Film: Why I Hate 'Star Wars'

Following the disastrous Cleopatra - the 1963 epic that had hemorrhaged money, forcing the studio to sell off half its land - the company had brought back its co-founder, Darryl F. Zanuck, who returned from self-imposed exile in Paris and was charged with righting the vessel. At first, he did so with some success, hiring his son, Richard, as head of production and greenlighting such giant hits as The Sound of Music , Fantastic Voyage and Planet of the Apes .