Want to know the best Audie Murphy movies? How about the worst Audie Murphy movies? Curious about Audie Murphy box office grosses or which Audie Murphy movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Audie Murphy movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information.
Audie Murphy (1925-1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. After the war, Murphy became a movie star. His most famous role was playing himself in 1955’s To Hell and Back. That movie was based on his 1949 memoirs of the same name. His IMDb page shows 51 acting credits from 1948-1969. This page ranks Audie Murphy movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, documentaries and shorts were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: Seems like Audie Murphy has been on our request hotline for a very long time. So long ago that we can not remember if Dan, Lyle or Laurent requested him first. Well, finally we have finished our Audie Murphy page. Sadly, when we got to the 1960s….. box office numbers for his movies became very hard to find. So, 4 of his movies did not make the following table: Those movies are listed in the “Possibly Interesting Facts” part of the page with their critic audience rating.
Audie Murphy Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1955
To Hell and Back (1955)
1948
Beyond Glory (1948)
1957
Night Passage (1957)
1960
The Unforgiven (1960)
1951
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
1954
Destry (1954)
1956
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
1959
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
1954
Drums Across the River (1954)
1954
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
1952
The Cimarron Kid (1952)
1953
Gunsmoke (1953)
1957
Joe Butterfly (1957)
1950
Sierra (1950)
1950
Kansas Raiders (1950)
1950
The Kid From Texas (1950)
1953
Tumbleweed (1953)
1958
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
1952
The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
1953
Column South (1953)
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
1956
World in My Corner (1956)
1961
Posse From Hell (1961)
1958
The Quiet American (1958)
1960
Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
1949
Bad Boy (1949)
1959
The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
1963
Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
1958
The Gun Runners (1958)
1960
Seven Ways From Sundown (1960)
1959
Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
1964
Bullet for a Badman (1964)
1965
Arizona Raiders (1965)
1964
The Quick Gun (1964)
1967
40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)
1964
Apache Rifles (1964)
1966
Gunpoint (1966)
1963
Showdown (1963)
1961
Battle at Bloody Beach (1961)
Audie Murphy Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort Audie Murphy movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort Audie Murphy movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR)Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | To Hell and Back (1955) | Marshall Thompson | 16.60 | 343.5 | 343.50 | 12 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 97.5 | |
| 2 | Beyond Glory (1948) | Alan Ladd | 6.30 | 170.2 | 170.20 | 42 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 3 | Night Passage (1957) | James Stewart | 7.40 | 143.0 | 143.00 | 28 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 88.3 | |
| 4 | The Unforgiven (1960) | Audrey Hepburn & Burt Lancaster |
8.90 | 138.4 | 138.40 | 30 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 86.6 | |
| 5 | The Red Badge of Courage (1951) | Directed by John Huston | 2.30 | 48.6 | 66.50 | 143 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 81.6 | |
| 6 | Destry (1954) | Thomas Mitchell | 4.30 | 100.4 | 100.40 | 72 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 81.3 | |
| 8 | Walk the Proud Land (1956) | Anne Bancroft | 4.30 | 84.0 | 84.00 | 70 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 78.0 | |
| 7 | No Name on the Bullet (1959) | Charles Drake | 2.70 | 48.8 | 48.80 | 88 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 77.4 | |
| 9 | Drums Across the River (1954) | Walter Brennan | 4.00 | 93.7 | 93.70 | 80 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 76.9 | |
| 10 | Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) | Dan Duryea & Susan Cabot |
4.30 | 100.4 | 100.40 | 69 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 74.1 | |
| 11 | The Cimarron Kid (1952) | Directed by Budd Boetticher | 3.50 | 68.3 | 68.30 | 98 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 72.9 | |
| 12 | Gunsmoke (1953) | Susan Cabot | 3.90 | 70.8 | 70.80 | 92 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 71.5 | |
| 13 | Joe Butterfly (1957) | Keenan Wynn | 3.70 | 71.5 | 71.50 | 67 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 71.3 | |
| 14 | Sierra (1950) | Burl Ives | 2.40 | 54.0 | 54.00 | 128 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 68.9 | |
| 15 | Kansas Raiders (1950) | Brian Donlevy | 3.40 | 77.0 | 77.00 | 96 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 68.0 | |
| 17 | The Kid From Texas (1950) | Gail Storm | 2.30 | 51.0 | 51.00 | 139 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 66.1 | |
| 16 | Tumbleweed (1953) | Chill Wills | 2.60 | 46.0 | 46.00 | 143 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 66.0 | |
| 18 | Ride a Crooked Trail (1958) | Walter Matthau | 2.30 | 41.1 | 41.10 | 98 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 65.3 | |
| 19 | The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) | Lee Marvin | 3.50 | 68.1 | 68.10 | 108 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 64.3 | |
| 20 | Column South (1953) | Professor from Gilligan's Island | 3.30 | 59.9 | 59.90 | 116 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 61.8 | |
| 22 | The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) | Kathryn Grant | 3.10 | 59.4 | 59.40 | 79 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 60.0 | |
| 21 | World in My Corner (1956) | Barbara Rush | 1.10 | 21.1 | 21.10 | 176 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 58.9 | |
| 23 | Posse From Hell (1961) | John Saxon | 1.40 | 20.2 | 20.20 | 109 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 56.6 | |
| 24 | The Quiet American (1958) | Michael Redgrave | 1.80 | 32.5 | 32.50 | 116 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 54.9 | |
| 25 | Hell Bent for Leather (1960) | Felicia Farr | 1.70 | 26.8 | 26.80 | 108 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 51.5 | |
| 26 | Bad Boy (1949) | Lloyd Nolan | 1.40 | 36.3 | 36.30 | 166 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 50.6 | |
| 27 | The Wild and the Innocent (1959) | Joanne Dru & Sandra Dee |
2.00 | 35.9 | 35.90 | 111 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 50.1 | |
| 28 | Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) | Ben Cooper | 1.30 | 16.1 | 16.10 | 115 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 48.9 | |
| 29 | The Gun Runners (1958) | Eddie Albert | 2.10 | 38.5 | 38.50 | 104 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 44.8 | |
| 30 | Seven Ways From Sundown (1960) | Barry Sullivan | 1.60 | 24.6 | 24.60 | 111 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 43.0 | |
| 31 | Cast a Long Shadow (1959) | Terry Moore | 1.90 | 33.4 | 33.40 | 120 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 39.1 | |
| 32 | Bullet for a Badman (1964) | Darren McGavin | 1.40 | 16.4 | 16.40 | 123 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 37.1 | |
| 33 | Arizona Raiders (1965) | Buster Crabbe | 0.20 | 2.4 | 2.40 | 149 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 26.8 | |
| 34 | The Quick Gun (1964) | James Best | 0.30 | 3.3 | 3.30 | 152 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 25.1 | |
| 35 | 40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967) | Michael Burns | 1.50 | 13.4 | 13.40 | 120 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 24.7 | |
| 36 | Apache Rifles (1964) | Linda Lawson | 0.30 | 3.2 | 3.20 | 153 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 22.4 | |
| 37 | Gunpoint (1966) | Denver Pyle | 0.10 | 1.1 | 1.10 | 158 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 17.8 | |
| 38 | Showdown (1963) | Strother Martin | 0.30 | 4.0 | 4.00 | 131 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 17.7 | |
| 39 | Battle at Bloody Beach (1961) | Gary Crosby | 1.20 | 17.5 | 17.50 | 115 | 40 | 00 / 00 | 7.8 |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Audie Murphy
1. Audie Leon Murphy was born in Kingston, Texas in 1925. He was the seventh of twelve children.
2. Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war. Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive.
3. When James Cagney saw an article on Audie Murphy in Time Magazine concerning his war heroics….Cagney decided to sign Murphy to a movie contract and brought him to Hollywood.
4. Audie Murphy disliked the name “Audie” when he was a kid and usually went by his middle name, Leon. In the Army, he discovered that “Leon” was considered synonymous with rednecks, and spent the rest of his life going by “Audie” or “Murph.”.
5. Clint Eastwood versus Audie Murphy? Yep it almost happened. Murphy was offered the villain role in 1971’s Dirty Harry. Sadly he died in a plane crash before filming began.
6. Audie Murphy was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
7. Audie Murphy was married two times. He had two children.
8. Audie Murphy is one of the few actors/actresses in our database to have made over 30 movies and not have one of their movies nominated for a single Oscar® in any category. The others? Jennifer Aniston, Elvis Presley and Abbott & Costello.
9. Audie Murphy has a wonderful official fan website. Lots of Murphy stuff can be found at www.audiemurphy.com.
10. Check out Audie Murphy ‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Astute readers will notice that four movies are missing….we were unable to find any box office information on them but here are those nine movies. Listed by the best rated ones according to critics and audiences
- 1962’s Six Black Horse – 62.50% – critic audience rating
- 1966’s The Texican – 60.25% – critic audience rating
- 1969’s A Time For Dying – 53.00% – critic audience rating
- 1965’s Einer spielt falsch – 49.00% – critic audience rating
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I have made one of my regular visits to your excellent Audie Murphy page, for me a valuable companion piece to the book on Murphy that you kindly sent me. On this occasion I noticed for the first time [wake up Bob!] that instead of listing Seven Ways FROM Sundown you have called the movie concerned Seven Ways TO Sundown [just as you prefer to use Chained instead of the proper Chain Lighting in your reference to a Bogie film.]
Sorry Humphrey but the Work Horse has beaten me on Chain/Chained: I’ve given up and will not mention it again. No pun intended but as the saying goes “You can lead a Horse to water but you can’t make it drink!”
However the title of the Murphy film has greater significance than usual for a movie as it is actually a play on his character in that movie, Seven Jones, so named by his mother because he was the 7th child born into her large family. Cogerson-like she preferred to use stats, rather than the normal Christian names, to make distinctions between her children!
LOOSELY RELATED TRIVIA: Murphy’s 1953 film Tumbleweed was named after his Horse in that film, which looked deceptively insignificant and didn’t impress Audie at first when it was thrust upon him; but actually turned out to be a super Work Horse which saved his master’s bacon with the bad guys on many occasions in the way that traditionally Trigger did for Roy Rogers; Champion did for Gene Autry; Blackjack did for Allan Rocky Lane; Tony did for Tom Mix; and [if I may mix my animals -again no pun intended] Asta did for The Thin Woman.
Hey Cogerson….No Name on the Bullet is playing on Grit TV tonight, PST, CA at 5 pm. Comes on right after The Kid from Texas and I will watch it after current Audie Murphy movie I’m watching is finished. I grew up watching all his movies. My last name growing up was Murphy but no relation.
Hey Janice….thanks for this information….hopefully some Murphy fans were able to check those movies out. Good stuff.
to me audie murphy was a great actor. I am so sorry that a plane crash killed him. Enough said about private planes. I will always watch his movies.
Hey Timothy W. I agree 100%….so sad that his life ended so early. Thanks for stopping by.
Hey Bob and Steve…this is in response to the last three Audie comments…..did it here….because it was getting confusing finding the place to comment back.
1. There is only one Joel Hirschhorn……Bob says thank goodness….lol.
2. As Bob pointed out other than Rating The Movie Stars….he wrote An Idiots Guide to Song Writing…..but other than that he did no other books.
3. He concentrated on his musical career more….and has two Oscars for his efforts.
4. Glad the Murphy book has some good stills.
5. I have not seen Beyond Glory….I will have to check that one out.
6. Night Passage has a wonderful cast…..Dan Duryea is fun to watch in that one.
7. Still trying to find No Name on the Bullet…amazingly…..all of my sources 8 cities very close and 8 cities that have nice DVD libraries….none have many Audie Murphy movies.
8. I know his movies play on TCM often….but I rarely watch television…..and when I do it is to watch sports.
Good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE
Good feedback. Much appreciated
I have pointed out before that Joel also did operatic musical reviews and I actually liked the ones that I saw. Hey maybe you’re wrong and there ARE two Joels!
Hey Steve…Good that Bob has caught up your videos…I am sure I am not caught…plan on doing that tomorrow…have a quick meeting in the morning and a rare afternoon off tomorrow.