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.
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I always got Robert Montgomery mixed up with Robert Young. Probably because they were both in MGM movies in the 30’s and they looked quite similar. I remember seeing Here Comes Mr. Jordan years ago and I enjoyed it. Also Forsaking All Others and They Were Expendable. But apart from that, his career has never really registered with me.
As for his daughter, Elizabeth, Bewitched was very much part of my childhood.
I’m also a big fan of Robert Young. He is another actor where I am trying to see every film he made.
One day we will add Bob Young to all the other Bobs on the website….Tayor, Montgomery, Ryan, Redford, DeNiro, Mitchum, Duvall and Downey, Jr. …..thinking that has to be the most popular first name on this website.
Yes. I think about all the Roberts in the world and film and think how wonderful if they could all be in the same film.
🙂
Hey Chris….I can easily see you getting Robert Young and Robert Montgomery mixed up…..their looks are very close. Before doing a Robert Taylor and a Robert Montgomery page… I got them mixed up. Too many Bobs running around….lol.
I just realized (thanks to Flora) that Samantha Stevens of Bewitched fame was his daughter…that is cool trivia…that shockingly I did not know….especially since like you that show was a huge part of my childhood too.
Thanks for checking in…..especially since he was not one of your favorites. Hopefully the next one will be someone you like more.
You should double the pay for WifeOfCogerson. Clearly she is worth it.
Yes indeed. I say the pay should be triple.
It is a costly price…but I am willing to pay it. I kept her kids alive when they were in the pool that has to be worth something…..lol. Thank you WoC…..you are awesome…sorry I broke the database.
I agree Flora triple the rate sounds more than fair.
My old friend Bob Montgomery, at last. We went to school together.
Oh alright… let’s see… I recognize a few films here but sorry, not an actor I’m very familiar with.
Not one of Hitchcock’s best but I have got Mr and Mrs. Smith in the collection, I’ve also seen Here Comes Mr. Jordan which was remade years later by Warren Beatty. Lady in the Lake is a classic noir, I’ve also seen They Were Expendable, Bob was also in the inferior sequel They Were Expendable Too, the series was rebooted recently by Sylvester Stallone. That’s about it Bruce. 4 films out of 57. I know, not good at all. I’ll do better next time, I promise.
On the plus side I did see the critic and UMR charts topper.
Another expert movie page Bruce. Vote goes up as always.
FOUR MOVIES FROM ONE OF MY FAVOURITE ACTORS OF ALL TIME? Sorry Steve, but not good enough.
So you went to school in USA even though your British? Hahahahahahaa. 🙂
By the way, Bruce:
I will want the world wide box office on the other films that you have. Just email it to me.
Yeah I forgot to add “Flora gasps” a couple of times in my above post. My mind was elsewhere. 4 movies is better than no movies Flora. Blame Bob for not starring in a single western or more John Wayne movies. [cue Flora rolling her eyes] 🙂
I only mentioned it because Bruce blamed you for the low total. 🙂
Yeah….I am standing in my glasshouse of 6 movies and throwing rocks at Steve and his 4 movies.
It would probably easier to throw a worldwide table at the bottom of the page versus trying to do an e-mail with all of that information.
Steve..,..you went to schools in the States? Not sure if I ever knew that…..thinking that is a miscommunication somewhere along the Internet world.
“You are” not your. Tsk tsk. and I minored in English. I blame spell check.
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Hey Steve….well combined we got to double digits….lol. Two of ones that I have seen and you have not….Forsaking All Others and Ride The Pink Horse are worth a view. Gable is awesome in the first one…..while the second is great noir movie with some ground breaking camera movements….that was Montgomery’s first film he directed.
Funny comments about his Expenables and Sly’s Expendables. Makes me wonder who would have starred in a 1959 Expendables….think of the cast…..Wayne, the Bobs…Taylor and Montgomery, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Clark Gable…..the bad guy could have been Spencer Tracy or Randolph Scott…..I bet that movie would be on my DVD rack.
Thanks as always for stopping by.
OOOOH. That new film sounds like one I wish existed.
Too bad they did not come up with that idea back then.
That would be one humdinger of a movie Bruce (I always wanted to say ‘humdinger’ in a sentence and this was a good excuse for it). The odd one out of that group of course is the other Bob, the one Steve has barely seen on film, see post above. [Flora snarls] Replace him with Dick Widmark and you have a classic. [Flora smiles again]
A humdinger indeed. Montgomery could be Face of the A-Team…..I forgot all about Widmark…he would have been good as the villain as well.
1 Robert Montgomery is billed above John Wayne in the 1945s They Were Expendable; and in both The Spoilers and Pittsburg in 1942 the Duke was billed third to Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott. A quick inspection of the cast lists and posters for these three films in Wikipedia demonstrate that.
2 Those factors support film historians’ contention that the year of Wayne’s rise to super stardom [ie became a Great like Gable etc] was 1948 as a result of Red River. I don’t think that
the Duke entered Quigley much before 1948.
How many of the movies have you seen, Robert? Of al the regulars who mention the number of films seen, you are the person I expect to be most likely to top me being that you’ve seen 21,000 movies.
Hey Flora….Bob is probably the only thing between you and another gold medal.
Well, I posted on Facebook that he had not yet left a total but that I beat the rest of you so far by ten.
FLORA:
Speaking for myself the big difference is that I just watch actors and actresses: you from what you say ARE one; and I think it marvellous your pro-active roles in relation to fan clubs. No ‘numbers’ game can better that.
I am an actress on stage in musical theatre, not movies. I have been an extra in a couple of things and worked in the makeup department in some productions . But if my acting on stage has put me in a separate category for you, that’s great.
Just don’t except me to show up in a movie. I prefer being in a makeup department.
FLORA:
1 Still – being a part of the ‘real world’ of entertainment production, in whatever capacity, as opposed to being just an armchair participant such as I must be very satisfying and great fun. [Clearly you also have a lot of energy !]
2 I was talking to an old colleague of mine from the Civil Service about a year ago. His hobby is amateur theatricals and he told me that during his holidays he had managed to capture a moonlighting assignment as Bill Murray’s understudy He thoroughly enjoyed himself being even near artistic people and he said that Murray was a great bloke who would often invite him for after-work drinks..
Best wishes BOB
Regarding my relationship to the real world of entertainment, Bob-
Well then, I’ll just comment to you here:
I have had musicians on both sides of my family for over 300 years. My parents met when she auditioned for his band as electric bass guitarist. She was one of the first female electric bass guitarists. The band was called Robison-Kaplan. The Kaplan was Elliot Kaplan whose name you will find on imdb. His family was searching for him and my father and I answered them. I told them that my father had died and that Elliot had died when I was in grade 10, but that sadly I never met him.
My mother is also a visual artist and has done several portraits of me.
Flora:
It must be great to have such a broad artistic association…At his 90th birthday party my late uncle sang the Irish song I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen. He got all the high notes and if you closed your eyes you would have thought that a man of 40 was singing.
I really envied him.
BOB
Hey Bob.
1. Yep when Montgomery made that movie with Wayne, Monty was the bigger star…..but Wayne was coming on strong.
2. Wayne’s first appearance on Quigley was in 1949…..and then he was on the list every year from 1949 to 1974…..with the exception of 1958…when he got shut out.
3. Wayne topped the charts in 1950 and 1954.
4. As always thanks for the input.
BRUCE
Thanks for Quigley info.
Here to help….lol. Gotta get all of these pieces of trivia out of my head sometimes…so I can put more in….lol.
Overlooked and under rated for sure. Love his performance as Danny the psychopath in Night Must Fall. Some many great performances in the man’s career.
Hey Walt H. I agree with you. I have not seen Night Must Fall….but based on your recommendation and the fact that it was one of his two Oscar nominations…I am thinking I need to check that one out. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Movie audiences were so used to Bob playing a either a good guy or mixed up guy – ie not evil – that there had to be a special trailer to introduce audiences to the idea of Bob playing an evil character so that audiences would not be shocked.
Very interesting.