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.
Montgomery day today on TCM
Hey Flora…(1) Thanks for the information on Robert Montgomery day on TCM….and (2) Glad to hear from you.
GOOD DAY FLORA!
1 Good to have you back. I’ve missed your informed comments and amusing poetry. I hope that in the long term that your health problems prove a thing of the past and in the immediate term t you enjoyed the Robert Montgomery day.
2 The 4 Montgomery films that I most remember are Rage in Heaven (1941) The Lady in the Lake (1947) which was Robert’s credited directorial debut, Your Witness (1950) which he also directed and They were Expendable (1945) of which he was the co-director along with John Ford and which co-starred Duke Wayne**
3 When I returned from holiday earlier this month I left you a post on the Henry Fonda p[age in which I promised you a new post on Greg and I intend to do the latter sometime today; so please keep an eye out for the Greg page flag-up.
BOBBY
** Did it again Bruce !!
Hey Bob.
1. I second your thoughts about hearing from Flora.
2. Speaking of the Duke….I was doing some followup work on my Joan Crawford page…and bad news…..I had Reunion in France overstated when it comes to box office….so the Duke will be losing one of his $100 million movies when I finish the Crawford update to the update to the update to the update to the…..
🙂
1 Bruce you have done so well for the Duke regarding box office that it would be churlish for me to complain about an adjustment in his case.
2 Actually I remember watching Reunion in France with my father and four brothers one Sunday afternoon long ago and in it Joan catches the Duke hiding in a doorway and asks him what he’s doing to which he replies something like “I’m just a guy who hangs about in doorways.” Every now and again when my brothers and I discuss movies somebody mentions that line. [I must remember to tell them that YOU downgraded the film !! ]
3 As you know GENERALLY I tend to favour the classic era cinema over the modern one so I’ve often wondered how many of those old Greats would have been successful today. I have just watched a Travolta interview in which he said that he preferred the Bud of the era from Godpop onward to the MB of Streetcar/Waterfront days. However it could be argued that Bud is really a character actor with no single set-in-stone screen persona
3 Before he died Bing opined that he would not have “made it” if he’d been starting out in the commercial markets of even the 70s but again whilst he did do dramatic roles it could be contended that the cornerstone of Bing’s success was his voice, so that he may have been primarily referring to himself as a vocal artist.
4 Have you ever asked yourself though how the likes of Gable, Cooper,Ladd, Cagney and Randolph Scott who for the most part successfully traded on a firmly established persona would have fared today in the cinema of superhero franchises, animated talking donkeys, bad language and sexual explicitness? Certainly it’s hard for me to visualise Joan Crawford swearing like a trooper but who knows? she may have decided that “If you can’t beat em join em.”
BOB
Hey Bob.
1. He will still rank very high in all box office categories…even with the drop for Reunion in France.
2. I have not seen the movie…but when I do I will be sure to being looking for that line. Glad you and your brothers have lines from movies that you share and remember.
3. Interesting thoughts on Brando and him being a character actor….though I think he had the corner marketed in “brooding”…and as Steve would say “mumbling”….lol.
4. Bing might not have been such a big star today….though that voice would probably make him a star for sure….just not in making blockbuster movie after blockbuster like he did in his awesome career.
5. I think Gable, Cooper and Cagney would survive and be huge….not so sure about Ladd and Scott….though Tom Cruise might be the new Alan Ladd.
Thanks for the sharing your movie thoughts.
I thank you for compiling and posting this information.
I like him very much. I feel as if he is: the-boy-next-door version of: William Powell. I much prefer his comedies more than his dramatic roles.
I frequently watch: The Mystery of Mr. X (1934), Petticoat Fever (1936), Hide-Out (1934), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) and June Bride (1948).
Hey F.S. Glad you liked our Robert Montgomery page. Seems I need to watch more Montgomery movies. Especially since I like William Powell so much. I have not seen any of the 5 you frequently watch…..I need to fix that issue in the near future. Thanks for stopping by.
Regarding the Robert Montgomery blog – I can’t create any comments because for some stupid reason I have accidently locked myself out of my gmail account and it isn’t recognizing my ip address.
Will need to ask my 14 year old neighbour for help as I don’t know tech stuff.
Sorry you can not comment there. I would suggest creating a yahoo free account and use that when ever somebody or some website asks for an email. That is what Debbie does….she calls it here Spam gmail account. There are some pretty interesting things on the blog.
yahoo free account. Great. I will have to write down the password because I keep getting the passwords for different sites mixed up.
Hello Bruce,
I’m sorry, but I’ve seen only 2 movies on the list. Really. There were expendables and Here Comes Mister Jordan. Shame on me. But, you know, in France there are only 9 of his movies availables on DVD. I’m the good looser…
Hey Laurent…2 is not bad considering only 9 are available….that is a 22.22% rate….versus my rate of 6 out of 57 for only 10.52%. After doing this page….I have come to the conclusion he was a star….but not a superstar. So I can understand that his movies might not have much appeal in France. Tally count: Flora 32, Larry 12, me 6, and Steve 4 and you 2…..so the 4 guys put up a tally of 24….and Flora by herself got to 32.
You might be interested in my latest idea: I am taking about 20 years of Harrison Reports (1934-1954) box office reports that listed how movies did at the actual theaters. Putting them in my movie database and TRYING to create a way to figure out the grosses of those pesky movies that did not make Variety’s Big Grossers of the year. I think they rated about 10,000 movies in 8 terms: From Excellent to Poor. My thinking is that if I get all of them in my database…I should be able to get a good idea of how a movie performed…as I will use all the movies I know the gross for….and use those grosses as the basis for the gross of the unknown movie. Thinking it might take a couple of months to get all of this done….but in the end it should be awesome…..or it would have been a waste of time…lol.
I find the great idea. In fact I had somewhat the same, but with theWeekly Grosses of Variety. My idea was the same as comparing these recipes with rentals that I have I could have estimated the rentals of all these missing films, as all foreign films for example. But it’s very very long. In one year I made 100% from 1922 to 1925 and 1930, 10 months of 1926, 6 months for 1927 and 1928, four months of 1931 and two months of 1929. I know Harrison’s Reports and I do not have thought. Your approach is interesting. I think you could’nt estimated very accurately revenues (in my opinion), but you’ll go a lot faster than me on the Variety. So yeah, I love your idea.
Speaking of box office, I do research over many years. I have many data on the French box office, of course, but also for the United States, Germany, Italy and Spain for example. Would you be interested in exchanging information?
You can mail me, if you want.
Hey Laurent. I have lots of stuff….and I will be glad to swap out information with you. We started our long process of that Harrison Reports project…..I have started calling it the “Screw you Paramount we will get your box office grosses anyway” project.
Sounds like you did some serious work with weekly Variety….I have looked at their weekly numbers….but never thought about adding them up. It is a very interesting approach. So far we have really looked at 1935 the most…..and the averages are lining up pretty well….as the terms work their way from “excellent” to “poor”.
You can email me at CogersonMovieScore@gmail.com
By the way your “screw you Paramount” comment about figuring out box offices totals reminds me about Peter Graves and his role as Mr. Phelps in Mission: Impossible on TV. Peter made lots of money for Paramount over his lengthy career and he was rewarded by the movie franchise making his character a traitor.
His fans wrote him and he told him he had nothing to do with it.
As such, I refuse to see a single Mission Impossible movie. I’ve never seen one and I never will.
In my little fantasy world- the movies never happened. Jim Phelps retired.
Peter Graves is the only Mr. Phelps I recognize. First. last. and always.
Works for me….the Tom Cruise M.I. movies do not exist.
If movies are not available, then movies are not available. No shame on you, Laurent at all.
🙂 I agree.
Thanks for the link to the Robert Montgomery blog. I will check it out tomorrow. I will love being able to talk to someone who actually knows who Robert Montgomery is.