168 thoughts on “Glenn Ford Movies”

1. Glenn Ford is one of my all time favorites. Maybe its his smile and his quiet confidence that he exudes that I like best about him. Cimarron is my favorite Glenn Ford movie. Glenn is heroic and always above board in his faith and sense of justice in his dealing with people. Most of his movies portray him as the quiet hero.

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   1. Hey Arthur….glad you found our Glenn Ford page….it has been a nice view getter for us….including his son Peter finding this page. I agree with you, his smile and quiet confidence are major factors in his lasting success. I have not seen Cimarron……but it recently popped up at my local library….so I will have to check it out. There are some serious Glenn Ford fans here at this site…..looking at you Bob and Flora….so they will be happy to see another Glenn Ford fan coming out of the wood work…lol.

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2. HI BRUCE

   Tonight I was reading up some more on the great Glenn Ford [aka Charley Bill Stuart] who as you know is in my 10 all time favourite movie stars and I thought that the following extract from one article would interest you in view of some of our past exchanges on this site.

   Production of MGM’s Interrupted Melody (1955).

   According to Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford would only appear in the film if he got top billing. Parker says “I wanted to do what was right for the picture so I said let him have the top billing. Glenn was a kind of a difficult man, but he was right for the picture and a very fine actor.”

   LOL BOB

   NOTE: Interrupted Melody was the story of opera singer Marjorie Lawrence’s struggle with polio and she was played by Parker and Glenn’s role in the film was secondary but in fairness he was a bigger star than Parker at that time and indeed always It’s Cogerson adjusted gross was approx $84 million and Wikipedia figures suggested that as it bucked the general trend by doing better overseas than domestically its adjusted worldwide gross was around $195 million against a budget of around $22 million in today’s money – ie a solid hit.

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   1. Hey Bob.
      1. Good to know your Glenn Ford readings offered up some good information.
      2. So after reading your comment…I went and looked up Interrupted Melody on Wiki….and plugged in the worldwide rentals.
      3. Here is what I have….though it is not listed on the page. $2,227,000 in international rentals would equal $6.36 million in actual gross or $103.00 million in adjusted worldwide gross compared to $83.40 million in adjusted domestic gross…for a total of $186.40 million.
      4. It is stuff like this that tells me…that when I get done with the updates (87%) complete….that I need to go back and add in all the worldwide rentals I ignored….will it ever end?….lol.
      5. Good billing info on Mr. Ford….thanks for sharing the information.

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3. 1 You have seen my Top 30 faves list and know that Glenn is ranked 8th among male ACTORS in the list so he is up there in my esteem with the Duke, Jimmy etc. Glenn made many fine movies throughout his career but the ones that I most enjoyed are those that he made between 1955 and 1959 inclusive which also coincided with his Top Star years.

   2 In that period he made 17 movies in all 12 for MGM, 4 for Columbia and 1 for RKO and Bruce accords the 17 a combined adjusted domestic gross of almost $1.8 billion giving the 17 an overall average of around $105 million The 3 most profitable ones WORLDWIDE of the 12 under his MGM contract were Blackboard Jungle, The Teahouse of the August Moon and The Fastest Gun Alive, but according to Wikipedia only 1 of the MGM 12 did not make a profit and that was Torpedo Run (1958).

   3 Unfortunately after 1959 the hits thinned out and in fact MGM’s production costs for Glenn’s two early 1960s biggies Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Cimarron were so prohibitive that they incurred considerable losses that wiped out 83% of the entire worldwide profits from the 11 profitable Ford MGM films mentioned in para 2

   4 Your Top 30 absolutely delights me as, especially in its upper regions, it includes 13 of those 17 1955-59 films and I appreciated you mentioning Human Desire a little known Ford movie. I am glad to see that both you and Bruce give Gilda a high artistic score as I agree with him that despite Hayworth being the bigger star at that juncture it was really a ‘Glenn Ford’ flick Your posters for Cowboy were the two best that I’ve ever seen for that movie and I loved your little coloured still for The Fastest Gun Alive which depicted the harbinger of the impressive coin trick. One disappointment: the inclusion of Midway which was NOT a Ford movie – but I suppose you had to find some way of getting Chuck in !! ***

   5 A critic disparagingly wrote of another of my idols Alan Ladd that “he was a small boy’s idea of a cowboy.” Be that as it may Glenn made many westerns and he was not just the 1950s idol
   of small boys like me but he was EVERYONE”S idea of a cowboy back then. Your chart does full justice to Glenn’s western movies – so Guns Up!

   PS: I liked the opening comment from Glenn about his own acting style. Reminds me of the Duke saying “I don’t act on the screen – I react!.” *** SNAP !!!

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   1. Hi Bob, thanks for the Guns Up! Arsenal fans would probably yell Gunners Up! 🙂

      I think most people would agree that Glenn Ford was one of the most likable actors of that era, when he passed away about 10 years ago members of my movie forum were genuinely upset, as if a beloved uncle had died.

      I did get a few complaints that Gilda should have been at the top of the video chart, not 3-10 to Yuma, I understand how they feel it’s an iconic film (mostly because of Hayworth) but take away Ford and Hayworth and the movie itself is routine, nothing that special about it. Still, it’s only a fraction of a point between the top 4 films on my video, practically a tie.

      Glad you liked the posters, I tried to balance the original US artwork with the sometimes more vivid foreign art. Posters from Belgium are particularly sought after by collectors.

      Check out my hub on Belgian movie posters for some choice examples of their artwork –

      http://hubpages.com/art/Belgian-Style-100-Years-of-Movie-Posters-89

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      1. Good stuff on these two comments.

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4. Glenn Ford has 16 films that made 100 million on your list. He no longer is on the top 1000 on the Oracle of Bacon Cener of the Hollywood Universe list. He was #132 back in 2000. These are the people on the current list who have appeared with Glenn in a film.

   A Time for Killing (1967) – 40 Harry Dean Stanton, 54 Harrison Ford, 772 Dick Miller
   Blackboard Jungle (1955) – 826 Paul Mazursky, 912 Arthur Tovey
   Casablanca Express (1989) – 323 Donald Pleasence
   Cimarron (1960) – 912 Arthur Tovey
   Day of Resurrection (1980) – 313 George Kennedy, 364 Robert Vaughn, 548 Henry Silva, 857 Bo Svenson
   Day of the Assassin (1979) – 517 Richard Roundtree, 548 Henry Silva
   Day of the Evil Gun (1968) – 40 Harry Dean Stanton
   Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) – 912 Arthur Tovey
   Gilda (1946) – 571 William Smith
   Happy Birthday to Me (1981) – 889 Matt Craven
   Heaven With a Gun (1969) – 21 David Carradine, 725 Barbara Hershey
   Interrupted Melody (1955) – 848 Roger Moore
   Is Paris Burning? (1966) – 917 Michael Lonsdale
   Jubal (1956) – 112 Rod Steiger, 142 Ernest Borgnine
   Midway (1976) – 247 Charlton Heston, 271 Robert Wagner, 347 Clyde Kusatsu, 413 James Coburn, 610 Hal Holbrook, 809 Robert Mitchum, 914 Cliff Robertson, 915 Pat Morita
   Pocketful of Miracles (1961) – 660 Ann-Margret, 684 Peter Falk
   Ransom (1956) – 855 Leslie Nielsen
   Smith! (1969) – 442 Melanie Griffith
   Superman (1978) – 126 Terence Stamp, 127 Gene Hackman, 225 Ned Beatty, 438 John Ratzenberger, 523 Harry Fielder, 933 Margot Kidder
   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) – 24 Rance Howard, 49 Clint Howard
   The Gazebo (1959) – 69 Martin Landau, 571 William Smith
   The Man from Colorado (1948) – 912 Arthur Tovey
   The Rounders (1965) – 317 Peter Fonda, 966 Kathleen Freeman
   The Sheepman (1958) – 455 Shirley MacLaine, 855 Leslie Nielsen
   The Undercover Man (1949) – 912 Arthur Tovey
   The Visitor (1979) – 85 Lance Henriksen, 148 Franco Nero, 781 Shelley Winters
   Torpedo Run (1958) – 142 Ernest Borgnine
   Young Man With Ideas (1952) – 912 Arthur Tovey

   These are the actors who appeared on the 2000 list and have fallen off through the years who also appeared with Glenn. Rank is 2000 rank.

   3:10 to Yuma (1957) – 396 Richard Jaeckel
   A Stolen Life (1946) – 222 Bess Flowers, 783 James Flavin, 918 Bette Davis
   A Time for Killing (1967) – 191 George Hamilton, 296 Kenneth Tobey
   Advance to the Rear (1964) – 225 Paul Smith, 376 Stella Stevens, 477 Britt Ekland, 532 Jim Backus, 592 Whit Bissell, 651 Melvyn Douglas, 863 Alan Hale Jr.
   Appointment in Honduras (1953) – 54 Stuart Whitman, 404 Jack Elam
   Blackboard Jungle (1955) – 231 Sidney Poitier, 731 John Hoyt
   Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) – 571 Charles Lane
   Border Shootout (1990) – 421 Michael Ansara
   Cimarron (1960) – 155 Royal Dano, 350 L.Q. Jones, 562 Paul Bryar, 623 Russ Tamblyn, 648 Harry Morgan, 665 Maria Schell, 732 Arthur O’Connell, 915 Ivan Triesault, 965 Mary Wickes
   Convicted (1950) – 241 Broderick Crawford, 592 Whit Bissell, 599 John Doucette, 682 Ray Teal
   Cowboy (1958) – 58 Jack Lemmon, 396 Richard Jaeckel, 549 Strother Martin
   Day of the Evil Gun (1968) – 155 Royal Dano, 165 R.G. Armstrong, 248 Arthur Kennedy, 301 Lee J. Cobb, 542 Paul Fix, 690 Parley Baer, 744 Dean Jagger
   Dear Heart (1964) – 326 Angela Lansbury, 965 Mary Wickes, 982 Billy Benedict
   Destroyer (1943) – 147 Lloyd Bridges, 463 Edward G. Robinson
   Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) – 43 Keenan Wynn, 464 John Alderson, 562 Paul Bryar, 623 Russ Tamblyn, 811 Robert Nichols, 965 Mary Wickes
   Experiment in Terror (1962) – 317 Clifton James
   Fate is the Hunter (1964) – 399 Nehemiah Persoff, 409 Rod Taylor, 917 Robert J. Wilke, 965 Mary Wickes
   Flight Lieutenant (1942) – 147 Lloyd Bridges, 177 Marcel Dalio
   Follow the Sun (1951) – 783 James Flavin
   Framed (1947) – 362 Barry Sullivan
   Gilda (1946) – 222 Bess Flowers, 671 Eduardo Cianelli, 894 Philip Van Zandt
   Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939) – 503 Richard Conte
   Human Desire (1954) – 241Broderick Crawford
   Imitation General (1958) – 225 Paul Smith, 522 Red Buttons, 811 Robert Nichols, 874 Dean Jones
   Interrupted Melody (1955) – 54 Stuart Whitman, 222 Bess Flowers, 562 Paul Bryar
   Is Paris Burning? (1966) – 9 Orson Welles, 32 Kirk Douglas, 120 Robert Stack, 139 E.G. Marshall, 215 Wolfgang Preiss, 257 Michel Piccoli, 266 Jean-Pierre Cassel, 289 Anthony Perkins, 348 Alain Delon, 364 Leslie Caron, 393 Charles Boyer, 444 Gert Frobe, 462 Gunter Meisner, 500 Daniel Gelin, 797 Simone Signoret, 823 Jean-Louis Trintignant, 991 Jean-Paul Belmondo
   It Started with a Kiss (1959) – 222 Bess Flowers, 420 Maurice Marsac, 562 Paul Bryae, 648 Harry Morgan, 657 Debbie Reynolds, 816 Carleton Young
   Jubal (1956) – 53 Charles Bronson, 404 Jack Elam
   Love is a Ball (1963) – 149 Telly Savalas, 171 John Wood, 393 Charles Boyer, 742 Ricardo Montalban
   Lust for Gold (1949) – 345 William Prince, 562 Paul Bryar, 599 John Doucette
   Midway (1976) – 56 Henry Fonda, 253 Robert Webber, 258 Dabney Coleman, 617 Paul Frees, 670 Edward Albert (the son), 686 Mitchell Ryan, 891 Gregory Walcott
   Mr. Soft Touch (1949) – 90 John Ireland, 682 Ray Teal, 859 Myron Healey
   My Son is Guilty (1939) – 989 Bruce Cabot
   Pocketful of Miracles (1961) – 146 Mike Mazurki, 222 Bess Flowers, 299 Fritz Feld, 404 Jack Elam, 732 Arthur O’Connell, 918 Bette Davis, 963 Frank Ferguson, 969 Byron Foulger, 994 Ellen Corby
   Rage (1966) – 376 Stella Stevens
   Raw Nerve (1991) – 591 Jan-Michael Vincent
   Santee (1973) – 917 Robert J. Wilke
   Smith! (1969) – 43 Keenan Wynn, 453 Warren Oates, 744 Dean Jagger
   So Ends our Night (1941) – 894 Philip Van Zandt
   Superman (1978) – 61 Trevor Howard, 164 Harry Andrews, 188 Marlon Brando, 356 Phil Brown, 378 Billy J. Mitchell, 400 Valerie Perrine, 443 Susannah York, 665 Maria Schell, 736 Paul Tuerpe, 794 Michael Ensign, 919 Larry Hagman, 996 Marc McClure
   Texas (1941) – 207 William Holden, 783 James Flavin, 816 Carleton Young
   The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961) – 222 Bess Flowers, 301 Lee J. Cobb, 326 Angela Lansbury, 393 Charles Boyer, 531 Lilyan Chauvin, 617 Paul Freeds
   The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) – 571 Charles Lane, 969 Byron Foulger
   The Americano (1955) – 151 Cesar Romero
   The Big Heat (1953) – 221 John Crawford, 236 Lee Marvin, 599 John Doucette
   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) – 272 Vito Scotti, 376 Stella Stevens, 775 Dina Merrill
   The Doctor and the Girl (1949) – 296 Kenneth Tobey, 824 Frank Wilcox
   The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) – 108 Dun Taylor, 169 John Dehner, 241 Broderick Crawford, 599 John Douchette, 623 Russ Tamblyn
   The Flying Missile (1950) – 65 Viveca Lindfors, 169 John Dehner, 296 Kenneth Tobey, 599 John Doucette, 816 Carleton Young, 824 Frank Wilcox
   The Gazebo (1959) – 657 Debbie Reynolds, 903 Jack Kruschen
   The Lady in Question (1940) – 273 George Coulouris, 894 Philip Van Zandt
   The Last Challenge (1967) – 155 Royal Dano, 332 Angie Dickinson, 404 Jack Elam
   The Loves of Carmen (1948) – 894 Philip Van Zandt, 905 Ron Randell
   The Man from Colorado (1948) – 207 William Holden, 682 Ray Teal, 859 Myron Healey, 878 Denver Pyle
   The Man from the Alamo (1953) – 54 Stuart Whitman, 423 Brett Halsey, 606 Alberto Morin, 824 Frank Wilcox
   The Mating of Millie (1948) – 682 Ray Teal, 905 Ron Randell
   The Money Trap (1965) – 158 Joseph Cotten, 397 Elke Sommer, 690 Parley Baer, 742 Ricardo Montalban
   The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) – 406 Edmond O’Brien, 682 Ray Teal
   The Return of October (1948) – 783 James Flavin, 824 Frank Wilcox, 859 Myron Healey, 969 Byron Foulger
   The Rounders (1965) – 56 Henry Fonda, 453 Warren Oates, 878 Denver Pyle
   The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) – 354 Cyril Cusack, 682 Ray Teal
   The Sheepman (1958) – 245 Slim Pickens
   The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) – 76 Eddie Albert, 188 Marlon Brando, 648 Harry Morgan
   The Undercover Man (1949) – 90 John Ireland, 271 Peter Brocco, 361 James Whitmore, 806 Nina Foch
   The Violent Men (1955) – 205 Brian Keith, 396 Richard Jaeckel, 463 Edward G. Robinson, 963 Frank Ferguson
   The Visitor (1979) – 142 John Huston, 251 Mel Ferrer
   The White Tower (1950) – 147 Lloyd Bridges, 692 Alida Valli, 851 Cedric Hardwicke
   Time Bomb (1953) – 593 Leslie Phillips, 753 Maurice Denham
   Torpedo Run (1958) – 350 L.Q. Jones, 840 Frank Gorshin, 874 Dean Jones
   Trial (1955) – 219 Elisha Cook Jr., 248 Arthur Kennedy, 592 Whit Bissell, 731 John Hoyt, 824 Frank Wilcox, 963 Frank Ferguson
   Young Man with Ideas (1952) – 222 Bess Flowers, 271 Peter Brocco, 459 Dabbs Greer, 806 Nina Foch, 824 Frank Wilcox, 965 Mary Wickes

   I count up Glenn appeared with approximately 40 Oscar winners down the years.

   3:10 to Yuma (1957) – Van Heflin
   A Stolen Life (1946) – Bette Davis, Walter Brennan
   Advance to the Rear (1964) – Melvyn Douglas
   Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Sidney Poitier
   Cimarron (1960) – Anne Baxter
   Convicted (1950) – Broderick Crawford, Dorothy Malone
   Cowboy (1958) – Jack Lemmon
   Day of Resurrection (1980) – George Kennedy
   Day of the Evil Gun (1968) – Dean Jagger
   Dear Heart (1964) – Geraldine Page
   Fate is the Hunter (1964) – Dorothy Malone
   Follow the Sun (1951) – Anne Baxter
   Human Desire (1954) – Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame
   Imitation General (1958) – Red Buttons
   Is Paris Burning? (1966) – Simone Signoret, George Chakiris
   Jubal (1956), Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
   Lust for Gold (1949) – Gig Young
   Midway (1976) – Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda
   Pocketful of Miracles (1961) – Bette Davis
   Rage (1972) – George C. Scott
   Ransom! (1956) – Donna Reed
   Smith! (1969) – Dean Jagger
   So Ends Our Night (1941) – Fredric March
   Superman (1978) – Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
   Texas (1941) – William Holden, Claire Trevor
   The 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse (1962) – Paul Lukas
   The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) – Claire Trevor
   The Big Heat (1953) – Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame
   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) – Shirley Jones
   The Desperadoes (1943) – Claire Trevor
   The Doctor and the Girl (1949) – Charles Coburn
   The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) – Broderick Crawford
   The Gazebo (1959) – Martin Landau
   The Man from Colorado (1948) – William Holden
   The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) – Edmond O’Brien,
   The Rounders (1965) – Henry Fonda
   The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) – Ethel Barrymore
   The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) – Marlon Brando
   The Visitor (1979) – Shelley Winters
   Torpedo Run (1958) – Ernest Borgnine
   Trial (1955) – Katy Jurado

   The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) was the first major studio film released to television.

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   1. Hey Dan…thanks for three lists of movies. (1) Wow from 132nd to off the list….that is a sad fall for Mr. Ford. (2) That is actually a decent total from the new list….surprised that was not enough to keep him on the Top 1000. (3) The 2000 list shows the fruits of his labor…starring in movies for over 40 years gave him lots of Bacon branches. Speaking of Bacon…I saw one of his latest movies yesterday….Cop Car….not his best by far. (4) Ford at 40……good to know….I kind of like the fact that Sir Caine is keeping that top spot. Pretty sure our Top 3 are Caine, Hackman and Heston. As always…thanks for the input.

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      1. Cop Car maybe 2 out of 4 stars or 4 out of 10 on IMDB.

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         1. Hey Dan…..Cop Car is indeed a pretty average movie….so 2 out of 4 stars seems about right.

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5. I just saw Steve’s youtube video on the top 30 Glenn Ford movies. It is excellent.

   I left a message on it. Cannot believe it took me two days to find it.

   LOL.

   Really, Steve, these videos are delightful.

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   1. Thanks Flora, looking at your youtube message I’ve done videos on your three favorite actors 1. Peck 2. Widmark 3. Ford. So which are your three favorite actresses? 🙂

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      1. You’ve already done my three favourite ladies even if I have not commented on them:

         Audrey Hepburn 1
         Grace Kelly 2
         Judy Garland 3

         I know you have done the first two for sure. I will check back on them.

         Lens Stevemen – LOL!

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