1957 Top Grossing Movies

Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1956)

This movie page looks at The Top Grossing Movies of 1957.   Currently when you type in the search words….”Top Grossing Movies of 1957″ you do not get much information.   So in an effort to get more information out there…we have decided to unlock our 1957 movie database vault and share the information we have collected over the years.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1957 (as listed on IMDB.com).  Obviously many movies made in 1956 earned box office dollars in 1957.  On the other side many movies made in 1957 made money in 1958 and later.  This page will looks at 155 Top Grossing Movies of 1957.  The movies are listed in a massive table that shows who starred in the movie, had much the movie grossed when it was released and how that gross means in today’s money.

Obviously this is not all of the 1957 movies…..but since our website is dynamic, ever time we add a 1957 movie….it will automatically be added to this page.

Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution

Our UMR Top 50 of 1957

Top Grossing Movies of 1957 Can Be Sorted 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Column One gives title of movie and in some cases a link to the trailer
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1957 by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1957 by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1957 by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1957 by critic and audience rating
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1957 by Oscar wins and Oscar nominations
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1957 by it’s Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score
Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Bones McCoy in Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (1957)

1957 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide

The top 25 earners in World Wide Box Office for 1957

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47 thoughts on “1957 Top Grossing Movies”

  1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here are some movie possible movie additions for 1957.

    I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, $310,000 Wikipedia-source- Rubine, Irving. “Boys meet ghouls, make money.” The New York Times, March 16, 1958. p. X7.
    $654,000 IMDB

    The Living Idol, $350,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

    Hot Summer Nights, $500,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study

    Decision Against Time, $500,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger.” Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study (Los Angeles), 2019.

    The Invisible Boy, $840,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

    The Hired Gun, $845,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

    The Shiralee, $920,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix ledger’, Howard Strickland Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Figures are in US dollars.

    Attack of the Crab Monsters, $1 million Wikipedia-source-See Theatrical release section

    Not of This Earth, $1 million Wikipedia-source-Alan Frank, The Films of Alan Frank: Shooting My Way Out of Trouble, Bath Press, 1998 p 36

    The Vintage, $1,280,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix ledger’,Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Figures are in US dollars.

    Bayou, $10 million Wikipedia-source- http://www.teako170.com/box50-59.html

    Search for Paradise, 6.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals) Wikipedia-source-All Time Domestic Champs”, Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34

    Thx

    Mike

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    1. Hey Mike…..great research….I will try and get these added in before the next big total website update. Thanks again for tracking this stuff down. I should send you a copy of Warner Brothers ledgers…as I sure there are some on those pages that did not make the 1957 movie page. Good information.

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      1. Hey Mike…..all the above movies are now in the table with the exception of Search For Paradise…..which the sources listed…have the right dates…but no mention of “Paradise”. As for Bayou, I also doubted the grosses for this one. My sources do not show either movie doing so well at the box office. Thanks for the suggestions….it took awhile…but I am glad they are now in the table.

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        1. Did you look under the name “Search for Paradise” or just “Paradise”?
          The name of the movie is actually “Search for Paradise” .

          Let me know

          Thx

          Mike

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          1. Hey Mike…I went line by line on the January 4th Variety issue….and the ABC Variety of 1992 that has all the 4 million rentals i ABC order…..it is not there either. I know the Cinerma movies were huge when they first came out. I will have to see if it was called something entirely different….there is one title that seems promising on the 1960 list..Visit to Small Planet…but it’s rental is 3.2 million. Heck it is probably already in the database…it is hard to remember all 36,000 movies in there…lol.

          2. Visit to a Small Planet is a Jerry Lewis movie….that is one Lewis movie that rarely gets talked about….and it was indeed already in the database.

  2. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Please review the following movie to add to 1957.

    I Was a Teenage Werewolf B.O. $2,000,000 Wikipedia-source-Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p89
    source-https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/year/1957

    Thx

    Mike

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  3. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    1957 Proposed changes.

    1957 Three Brave Men (1957) IMDB states made 1956. Should this be changed?
    1956 Three Brave Men

    Thx

    Mike

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    1. Hey Mike…..moving Three Brave Men to the 1956 page….should show up by tomorrow. Thanks for the catch. I am thinking you most be working on something yourself. Usually WoC finds these errors when she is working on something else….and these errors pop up when the data is combined….and WoC gets frustrated with me for my spelling errors or the year errors. Thanks as always.

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  4. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here are some typo and possible change to the year 1957.
    typos
    1957 Seven Hills From Rome (1957)
    1957 Seven Hills of Rome

    1957 Bundle of Joy (1957). IMDB states this was made in 1956. Should this be changed?
    1956 Bundle of Joy (1956)

    Thx

    Mike

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  5. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here are some typos for the year 1957.

    typo
    1957 Public Pidgeon No. 1 (1957)
    1957 Public Pigeon No. 1

    1957 Silm Carter (1957)
    1957 Slim Carter

    Thx

    Mike

    Reply

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