Want to know the best Robert Montgomery movies? How about the worst Robert Montgomery movies? Curious about Robert Montgomery box office grosses or which Robert Montgomery movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Robert Montgomery 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.
Robert Montgomery (1904-1981) was a 2-time American Oscar® nominated actor, director and producer. In the 1930s he was one of the biggest stars working in movies. His IMDb page shows 64 acting and 5 directing credits from 1929-1960. This page ranks 57 Robert Montgomery 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: Wow!…… did we have some problems doing this page. Problem 1: While adding information for his Lady In The Lake movie…we some how broke our database….as strange Chinese code started showing up. This required emergency computer programming by Wife of Cogerson. Problem 2: When finally ready to write and publish this page…our website provider would not allow changes to be saved….so I had to rewrite the entire page more than once. Problem 3: Even though most of his movies were made by MGM…the Eddie Mannix ledgers only listed about half of his movies. This required us to come up with another way to calculate box office grosses using the Harrison Reports from the 1930s and 1940s to get the other half. Once again…Wife of Cogerson had to perform some emergency programming work. The bill for her services is going to be huge! Finally we were able to overcome all of these obstacles and finish this Robert Montgomery page.
Robert Montgomery 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.
- Sort Robert Montgomery movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Robert Montgomery movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Robert Montgomery movies by yearly box office rank
- Sort Robert Montgomery movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Robert Montgomery movie received.
- Sort Robert Montgomery 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Robert Montgomery Table
- Fourteen Robert Montgomery movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 24.56% of his movies listed. They Were Expendable (1945) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Robert Montgomery movie grosses $80.70 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 29 Robert Montgomery movies are rated as good movies…or 50.87% of his movies. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) is his highest rated movie while Free and Easy (1930)is his lowest rated movie.
- Ten Robert Montgomery movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 17.54% of his movies.
- Three Robert Montgomery movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 5.26% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR )Score is 40.00. 33 Robert Montgomery movies scored higher that average….or 57.89% of his movies. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) got the the highest UMR Score while Eye Witness (1950) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Robert Montgomery
1. Henry Montgomery, Jr. was born in Fishkill Landing, New York in 1904.
2. Robert Montgomery was nominated for two Best Actor Oscars®: 1937’s Night Must Fall and 1941’s Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
3. After World War II broke out in Europe in September, 1939, and while the United States was still officially neutral, Robert Montgomery enlisted in London for American field service and drove ambulances in France until the Dunkirk evacuation.
4. During the D-Day invasion, Robert Montgomery was one of the first to enter Cherbourg harbor and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service.
5. Robert Montgomery was widely considered to be one of the best dressed men in Hollywood and for years did not carry a wallet because it ruined the drape of his suits.
6. Robert Montgomery was married two times. He had three children. His daughter, Elizabeth Montgomery, became an actress…and was best know for her role as Samantha Stevens on the television series, Bewitched.
7. Robert Montgomery was president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1935-38 and 1946-47.
8. Check out Robert Montgomery ‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Astute readers will notice that three movies are missing….we were unable to find any box office information on: 1929’s Three Live Ghosts, 1930’s Sins of the Children and 1932’s But The Flesh Is Weak. Also we have worldwide box office grosses on about 30 of his movies…if interested…just leave a request on the comment box…and we will make sure you get that information.
During our research on Robert Montgomery we found this wonderful website from a huge Montgomery fan. Classic Robert Montgomery Blogspot.
He had a light, sure comedy touch. His timing was perfect. See June Bride (1948) and One More, My Darling (1949)
Steve
Just watched your Robert Montgomery video. Curiously, I think his daughter Elizabeth, who was never a theatre movie star, is probably far better known in the USA today. Shows the shift from movies to TV.
The poster which really stood out for me is that “art deco” (if that is the proper term) one for Riptide. That one looks like it could be hanging in an art museum and might be the most interesting poster you have unearthed. The movie, Riptide, itself, is nothing much.
As for your ratings, I agree with the top two. Most of his other stuff is forgettable. One exception is Lady in the Lake for its subjective camera. I would rate it 3rd in interest, but understand that this technique rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way and so your rating.
Like his MGM colleagues James Stewart and Clark Gable, Montgomery had a distinguished war record. In 1950, he was, I think, the first major Hollywood star to turn to TV. His anthology program ran for over 300 programs through 1957. He was obviously interested in the theatre and live performance, so his program was not filmed and perhaps thus would simply not stand up today versus later filmed work. So Montgomery has faded a bit from the popular memory. His daughter Elizabeth became a regular on his show long before she became bewitched.
Hello John, thanks for checking out my Robert Montgomery video.
Agree, that Riptide poster does look like it could be hanging in the art deco section of an art museum. The poster for Private Lives looks like it was designed by Andy Warhol, how old was he in 1931? 🙂
You have to give Montgomery credit for trying something different ala Hitchcock with Lady in the Lake. I don’t think I’ve seen it but I can understand how people would quickly get annoyed with that style, the whole film is shot from his viewpoint using subjective camera technique, so the only time you see his face is thru reflections. It quickly became annoying when you see all the other actors in the film looking at the camera when talking to him.
In the photo for Lady in the Lake, she’s looking at the camera but from the reflection you can see Montgomery is actually further on the left and she’s not looking at his face. Maybe it’s a specially posed photo for publicity and not how that scene plays out.
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Hey John…good thoughts on Steve’s video and on Robert Montgomery. Very interesting.