This movie page looks at The Top Grossing Movies of 1955. Currently when you type in the search words….”Top Grossing Movies of 1955″ you do not get much information. So in an effort to get more information out there…we have decided to unlock our 1955 movie database vault and share the information we have collected over the years.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1955 (as listed on IMDB.com). Obviously many movies made in 1954 earned box office dollars in 1955. On the other side many movies made in 1955 made money in 1956 and later. This page will looks at 154 Top Grossing Movies of 1955. The movies are listed in a massive table that shows who starred in the movie, had much the movie grossed when it was released and how that gross means in today’s money.
Obviously this is not all of the 1955 movies…..but since our website is dynamic, ever time we add a 1955 movie….it will automatically be added to this page.
Our UMR Top 50 of 1955
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1955
Mister Roberts (1955)
AA Best Picture Nom
1955
Marty (1955)
AA Best Picture Win
1955
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
AA Best Picture Nom
1955
East of Eden (1955)
1955
To Catch a Thief (1955)
1955
Rebel without a Cause (1955)
1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
AA Best Picture Nom
1955
Oklahoma! (1955)
1955
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
1955
The Man From Laramie (1955)
1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
1955
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
1955
To Hell and Back (1955)
1955
Guys and Dolls (1955)
1955
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
1955
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
1955
Picnic (1955)
AA Best Picture Nom
1955
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
1955
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
1955
Cinerama Holiday (1955)
1955
The Long Gray Line (1955)
1955
The Tall Men (1955)
1955
A Man Called Peter (1955)
1955
We're No Angels (1955)
1955
Artists and Models (1955)
1955
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
1955
You're Never Too Young (1955)
1955
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
1955
The Seven Little Foys (1955)
1955
The Court Jester (1955)
1955
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
1955
The Left Hand of God (1955)
1955
Strategic Air Command (1955)
1955
The Sea Chase (1955)
1955
The Desperate Hours (1955)
1955
Battle Cry (1955)
1955
The Tender Trap (1955)
1955
Summertime (1955)
1955
The Phenix City Story (1955)
1955
Not as a Stranger (1955)
1955
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
1955
The McConnell Story (1955)
1955
Trial (1955)
1955
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
1955
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
1955
Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
1955
Wichita (1955)
1955
The Violent Men (1955)
1955
Man Without a Star (1955)
1955
African Lion (1955)
Year | Movie (Year) | Rating | S |
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Year | Movie (Year) | Rating | S |
1955 | Mister Roberts (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
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1955 | Marty (1955) AA Best Picture Win |
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1955 | The Rose Tattoo (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
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1955 | East of Eden (1955) | ||
1955 | To Catch a Thief (1955) | ||
1955 | Rebel without a Cause (1955) | ||
1955 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
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1955 | Oklahoma! (1955) | ||
1955 | The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) | ||
1955 | The Man From Laramie (1955) | ||
1955 | I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) | ||
1955 | Lady and the Tramp (1955) | ||
1955 | To Hell and Back (1955) | ||
1955 | Guys and Dolls (1955) | ||
1955 | All That Heaven Allows (1955) | ||
1955 | The Seven Year Itch (1955) | ||
1955 | Picnic (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
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1955 | Blackboard Jungle (1955) | ||
1955 | Love Me or Leave Me (1955) | ||
1955 | Cinerama Holiday (1955) | ||
1955 | The Long Gray Line (1955) | ||
1955 | The Tall Men (1955) | ||
1955 | A Man Called Peter (1955) | ||
1955 | We're No Angels (1955) | ||
1955 | Artists and Models (1955) | ||
1955 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) | ||
1955 | You're Never Too Young (1955) | ||
1955 | Soldier of Fortune (1955) | ||
1955 | The Seven Little Foys (1955) | ||
1955 | The Court Jester (1955) | ||
1955 | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | ||
1955 | The Left Hand of God (1955) | ||
1955 | Strategic Air Command (1955) | ||
1955 | The Sea Chase (1955) | ||
1955 | The Desperate Hours (1955) | ||
1955 | Battle Cry (1955) | ||
1955 | The Tender Trap (1955) | ||
1955 | Summertime (1955) | ||
1955 | The Phenix City Story (1955) | ||
1955 | Not as a Stranger (1955) | ||
1955 | Land of the Pharaohs (1955) | ||
1955 | The McConnell Story (1955) | ||
1955 | Trial (1955) | ||
1955 | Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) | ||
1955 | Daddy Long Legs (1955) | ||
1955 | Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955) | ||
1955 | Wichita (1955) | ||
1955 | The Violent Men (1955) | ||
1955 | Man Without a Star (1955) | ||
1955 | African Lion (1955) |
Top Grossing Movies of 1955 Can Be Sorted 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 Top Grossing Movies of 1955 by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1955 by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1955 by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1955 by critic and audience rating
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1955 by Oscar wins and Oscar nominations
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1955 by it’s Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score
R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | 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 | Mister Roberts (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
Henry Fonda & James Cagney |
21.4 | 444.2 | 499.60 | 4 | 88 | 03 / 01 | 99.4 | |
2 | Marty (1955) AA Best Picture Win |
Ernest Borgnine | 5.7 | 118.5 | 118.50 | 58 | 85 | 08 / 04 | 99.3 | |
2 | The Rose Tattoo (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
Anna Magnani & Burt Lancaster |
12.0 | 248.8 | 248.80 | 21 | 75 | 08 / 03 | 99.0 | |
6 | East of Eden (1955) | James Dean | 14.3 | 296.2 | 337.70 | 16 | 84 | 04 / 01 | 98.7 | |
7 | To Catch a Thief (1955) | Cary Grant & Grace Kelly |
12.9 | 266.5 | 266.50 | 19 | 84 | 03 / 01 | 98.7 | |
6 | Rebel without a Cause (1955) | Natalie Wood & James Dean |
13.1 | 272.5 | 272.50 | 17 | 86 | 03 / 00 | 98.7 | |
7 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jennifer Jones & William Holden |
11.4 | 236.9 | 236.90 | 26 | 68 | 08 / 03 | 98.2 | |
10 | Oklahoma! (1955) | Shirley Jones & Rod Steiger |
20.3 | 420.5 | 420.50 | 5 | 77 | 04 / 02 | 98.0 | |
11 | The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) | Frank Sinatra & Eleanor Parker |
11.7 | 241.6 | 241.60 | 22 | 80 | 03 / 00 | 97.8 | |
12 | The Man From Laramie (1955) | James Stewart & Donald Crisp |
9.4 | 195.5 | 195.50 | 31 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 97.8 | |
12 | I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) | Susan Hayward | 17.2 | 355.6 | 355.60 | 10 | 77 | 04 / 01 | 97.8 | |
13 | Lady and the Tramp (1955) | Peggy Lee | 28.9 | 599.4 | 599.40 | 1 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 97.6 | |
14 | To Hell and Back (1955) | Audie Murphy | 16.6 | 343.5 | 343.50 | 12 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 97.5 | |
14 | Guys and Dolls (1955) | Marlon Brando & Jean Simmons |
19.6 | 407.2 | 407.20 | 7 | 77 | 04 / 00 | 97.4 | |
15 | All That Heaven Allows (1955) | Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman |
8.9 | 183.6 | 183.60 | 32 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 97.2 | |
15 | The Seven Year Itch (1955) | Marilyn Monroe | 14.3 | 296.2 | 296.20 | 14 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 97.1 | |
15 | Picnic (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Holden & Kim Novak |
18.1 | 376.1 | 376.10 | 9 | 65 | 06 / 02 | 97.1 | |
16 | Blackboard Jungle (1955) | Sidney Poitier & Glenn Ford |
15.6 | 323.3 | 323.30 | 13 | 75 | 04 / 00 | 97.0 | |
17 | Love Me or Leave Me (1955) | James Cagney & Doris Day |
11.5 | 239.0 | 333.60 | 23 | 69 | 06 / 01 | 96.5 | |
18 | Cinerama Holiday (1955) | John Marsh | 22.9 | 473.8 | 473.80 | 3 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
20 | The Long Gray Line (1955) | Maureen O'Hara & Tyrone Power |
11.1 | 231.0 | 231.00 | 27 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
22 | The Tall Men (1955) | Clark Gable & Robert Ryan |
12.1 | 251.7 | 251.70 | 20 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
22 | A Man Called Peter (1955) | Richard Todd | 12.9 | 266.5 | 266.50 | 18 | 72 | 01 / 00 | 95.8 | |
25 | We're No Angels (1955) | Humphrey Bogart & Joan Bennett |
8.6 | 177.7 | 177.70 | 35 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 95.0 | |
24 | Artists and Models (1955) | Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
10.9 | 225.1 | 225.10 | 28 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 94.9 | |
26 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) | Gary Cooper & Rod Steiger |
8.6 | 177.7 | 177.70 | 34 | 72 | 01 / 00 | 94.1 | |
28 | You're Never Too Young (1955) | Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
9.7 | 201.4 | 201.40 | 30 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 93.6 | |
29 | Soldier of Fortune (1955) | Clark Gable & Susan Hayward |
7.9 | 162.9 | 226.90 | 36 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 93.6 | |
30 | The Seven Little Foys (1955) | James Cagney & Bob Hope |
11.4 | 236.9 | 236.90 | 24 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 93.4 | |
30 | The Court Jester (1955) | Danny Kaye & Angela Lansbury |
6.3 | 130.3 | 130.30 | 48 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 93.4 | |
32 | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | Spencer Tracy & Robert Ryan |
5.7 | 118.5 | 226.40 | 56 | 87 | 03 / 00 | 93.4 | |
32 | The Left Hand of God (1955) | Humphrey Bogart & Gene Tierney |
11.4 | 236.9 | 236.90 | 25 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 93.0 | |
33 | Strategic Air Command (1955) | James Stewart | 18.6 | 385.0 | 385.00 | 8 | 61 | 01 / 00 | 92.9 | |
34 | The Sea Chase (1955) | John Wayne & Lana Turner |
17.1 | 355.4 | 431.10 | 11 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 92.9 | |
35 | The Desperate Hours (1955) | Humphrey Bogart & Fredric March |
7.1 | 148.1 | 148.10 | 41 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 92.8 | |
36 | Battle Cry (1955) | Van Heflin | 23.1 | 479.8 | 544.90 | 2 | 59 | 01 / 00 | 92.4 | |
37 | The Tender Trap (1955) | Frank Sinatra & Debbie Reynolds |
8.6 | 177.7 | 177.70 | 33 | 65 | 01 / 00 | 92.0 | |
39 | Summertime (1955) | Katharine Hepburn | 5.7 | 118.5 | 118.50 | 57 | 82 | 02 / 00 | 91.7 | |
40 | The Phenix City Story (1955) | John McIntire | 6.3 | 130.3 | 130.30 | 47 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 91.3 | |
39 | Not as a Stranger (1955) | Frank Sinatra & Robert Mitchum |
20.3 | 420.5 | 420.50 | 6 | 56 | 01 / 00 | 91.2 | |
43 | Land of the Pharaohs (1955) | Directed by Howard Hawks | 7.7 | 159.9 | 159.90 | 37 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 90.9 | |
42 | The McConnell Story (1955) | Alan Ladd & June Allyson |
10.0 | 207.3 | 207.30 | 29 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 90.8 | |
44 | Trial (1955) | Glenn Ford & Dorothy McGuire |
6.6 | 136.9 | 136.90 | 45 | 74 | 01 / 00 | 90.6 | |
42 | Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) | Lee Marvin & Jack Webb |
14.3 | 296.2 | 296.20 | 15 | 54 | 01 / 00 | 90.6 | |
46 | Daddy Long Legs (1955) | Fred Astaire & Leslie Caron |
7.1 | 148.1 | 239.90 | 42 | 67 | 03 / 00 | 89.9 | |
44 | Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955) | Fess Parker | 6.1 | 127.3 | 127.30 | 52 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 89.9 | |
47 | Wichita (1955) | Joel McCrea | 6.9 | 142.2 | 142.20 | 44 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
48 | The Violent Men (1955) | Barbara Stanwyck & Glenn Ford |
5.6 | 115.5 | 115.50 | 60 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 87.6 | |
49 | Man Without a Star (1955) | Kirk Douglas | 6.3 | 130.3 | 130.30 | 51 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 87.3 | |
48 | African Lion (1955) | Documentary | 6.0 | 124.4 | 124.40 | 53 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 87.2 | |
49 | The Grand Maneuver/Les grandes manoeuvres (1955) | 5.3 | 109.9 | 109.90 | 62 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 86.7 | ||
52 | Interrupted Melody (1955) | Glenn Ford & Roger Moore |
5.1 | 106.6 | 238.50 | 66 | 69 | 03 / 01 | 86.7 | |
53 | It's Always Fair Weather (1955) | Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse |
3.9 | 81.7 | 140.60 | 85 | 78 | 02 / 00 | 86.0 | |
54 | Chief Crazy Horse (1955) | Victor Mature | 5.0 | 103.7 | 103.70 | 68 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 85.3 | |
56 | The Private War of Major Benson (1955) | Charlton Heston | 6.0 | 124.4 | 124.40 | 54 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 85.1 | |
56 | The Kentuckian (1955) | Burt Lancaster & Walter Matthau |
7.4 | 154.0 | 154.00 | 38 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 85.1 | |
55 | The Trouble with Harry (1955) | Shirley MacLaine | 3.7 | 77.0 | 77.00 | 87 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 84.7 | |
57 | House of Bamboo (1955) | Robert Ryan | 4.9 | 100.7 | 100.70 | 69 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 84.6 | |
59 | Hit The Deck (1955) | Jane Powell & Walter Pidgeon |
5.7 | 117.8 | 204.00 | 59 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 84.6 | |
60 | The Indian Fighter (1955) | Kirk Douglas & Walter Matthau |
7.0 | 145.1 | 145.10 | 43 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 84.2 | |
62 | Blood Alley (1955) | John Wayne & Lauren Bacall |
6.3 | 130.3 | 162.20 | 49 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 83.6 | |
60 | The Deep Blue Sea (1955) | Vivien Leigh & Kenneth More |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 102 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 83.4 | |
63 | The Cobweb (1955) | Richard Widmark & Lauren Bacall |
4.3 | 88.8 | 124.00 | 80 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 83.3 | |
65 | The View from Pompey's Head (1955) | Richard Egan | 4.3 | 88.8 | 88.80 | 77 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 83.1 | |
64 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Robert Mitchum & Lillian Gish |
0.9 | 17.8 | 17.80 | 181 | 93 | 00 / 00 | 83.0 | |
68 | My Sister Eileen (1955) | Jack Lemmon | 5.1 | 106.6 | 106.60 | 64 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 82.8 | |
66 | The Ladykillers (1955) | Peter Sellers | 2.2 | 45.9 | 45.90 | 129 | 83 | 01 / 00 | 82.7 | |
67 | Violent Saturday (1955) | Victor Mature & Lee Marvin |
3.6 | 74.0 | 74.00 | 91 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 82.4 | |
69 | Untamed (1955) | Susan Hayward & Tyrone Power |
7.1 | 148.1 | 148.10 | 40 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 81.1 | |
72 | White Feather (1955) | Robert Wagner & Jeffrey Hunter |
4.7 | 97.7 | 97.70 | 72 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 80.8 | |
72 | Many Rivers To Cross (1955) | Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker |
6.0 | 123.4 | 227.00 | 55 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 80.6 | |
71 | The Littlest Outlaw (1955) | Pedro Armendariz | 4.6 | 94.8 | 94.80 | 74 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 80.5 | |
71 | Kiss Me Deadly (1955) | Ralph Meeker | 2.1 | 43.0 | 43.00 | 137 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 79.6 | |
73 | Richard III (1955) | Laurence Olivier & John Gielgud |
2.1 | 44.4 | 44.40 | 133 | 78 | 01 / 00 | 79.4 | |
75 | Diabolique (1955) | Simone Signoret & Véra Clouzot |
1.0 | 20.7 | 20.70 | 171 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
78 | The Glass Slipper (1955) | Leslie Caron | 3.9 | 80.7 | 174.80 | 86 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
77 | There's Always Tomorrow (1955) | Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 109 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 79.0 | |
80 | Run For Cover (1955) | James Cagney & Ernest Borgnine |
4.3 | 88.8 | 88.80 | 79 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 79.0 | |
80 | Foxfire (1955) | Jane Russell | 5.4 | 112.5 | 112.50 | 61 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 79.0 | |
82 | It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955) | Ray Harryhausen | 4.9 | 100.7 | 100.70 | 71 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 78.8 | |
81 | Hell On Frisco Bay (1955) | Edward G. Robinson & Alan Ladd |
4.5 | 94.2 | 167.10 | 76 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 78.8 | |
82 | Rififi (1955) | Jules Dassin | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.20 | 208 | 91 | 00 / 00 | 78.7 | |
83 | Underwater! (1955) | Jane Russell & Directed by John Sturges |
6.3 | 130.3 | 130.30 | 50 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 78.4 | |
83 | The Big Combo (1955) | Cornel Wilde & Richard Conte |
1.9 | 38.5 | 38.50 | 141 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 78.1 | |
84 | Six Bridges To Cross (1955) | Tony Curtis | 5.1 | 106.6 | 106.60 | 63 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 78.0 | |
86 | This Island Earth (1955) | Rex Reason | 4.9 | 100.7 | 100.70 | 70 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 77.8 | |
87 | Man with the Gun (1955) | Robert Mitchum | 5.1 | 106.6 | 106.60 | 65 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 76.5 | |
88 | The Racers (1955) | Kirk Douglas | 5.0 | 103.7 | 103.70 | 67 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 76.4 | |
90 | Jupiter's Darling (1955) | Esther Williams & Howard Keel |
4.3 | 88.4 | 153.40 | 81 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 76.1 | |
88 | Three For The Show (1955) | Jack Lemmon & Betty Grable |
3.6 | 74.0 | 74.00 | 90 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 76.0 | |
93 | The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) | Fred MacMurray & Richard Burton |
7.4 | 154.0 | 154.00 | 39 | 38 | 01 / 00 | 75.8 | |
91 | The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) | 2.4 | 50.4 | 50.40 | 123 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 75.7 | ||
92 | New York Confidential (1955) | Anne Bancroft | 2.4 | 50.7 | 62.70 | 122 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 75.2 | |
94 | Tarantula (1955) | Leo G. Carroll & Clint Eastwood |
3.1 | 65.2 | 65.20 | 99 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 74.3 | |
95 | Lucy Gallant (1955) | Charlton Heston & Thelma Ritter |
3.7 | 77.0 | 77.00 | 89 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 74.2 | |
96 | Stranger on Horseback (1955) | Joel McCrea | 2.1 | 44.0 | 44.00 | 135 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 73.8 | |
97 | How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955) | Betty Grable | 4.7 | 97.7 | 97.70 | 73 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 73.2 | |
99 | The Square Jungle (1955) | Ernest Borgnine & Tony Curtis |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 107 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 73.1 | |
97 | The Big Knife (1955) | Shelley Winters & Rod Steiger |
2.3 | 48.1 | 48.10 | 126 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 72.6 | |
100 | Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) | Directed by Ingmar Bergman | 0.1 | 3.0 | 6.00 | 201 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 72.1 | |
99 | Queen Bee (1955) | Joan Crawford & Fay Wray |
2.8 | 57.7 | 57.70 | 115 | 64 | 02 / 00 | 72.1 | |
102 | Pather Panchali (1955) | Variety Top 100 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 2.50 | 204 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 71.6 | |
103 | The Spoilers (1955) | Anne Baxter | 4.0 | 82.9 | 82.90 | 82 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 71.5 | |
104 | One Desire (1955) | Rock Hudson & Natalie Wood |
3.4 | 71.1 | 71.10 | 95 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 71.2 | |
107 | Kismet (1955) | Vincent Minnelli & Howard Keel |
3.5 | 72.1 | 108.20 | 94 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 70.9 | |
106 | Tennessee's Partner (1955) | Ronald Reagan | 3.1 | 65.2 | 65.20 | 100 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 70.7 | |
105 | Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) | Jennifer Jones | 2.8 | 58.7 | 58.70 | 114 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 70.2 | |
106 | Count Three and Pray (1955) | Van Heflin | 2.7 | 56.3 | 56.30 | 117 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 69.8 | |
108 | The Virgin Queen (1955) | Bette Davis | 2.7 | 56.3 | 56.30 | 119 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 69.1 | |
112 | The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) | Ray Milland | 3.7 | 77.0 | 77.00 | 88 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 68.5 | |
109 | Seven Cities of Gold (1955) | Anthony Quinn & Jeffrey Hunter |
2.6 | 54.2 | 54.20 | 120 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 68.4 | |
111 | Moonfleet (1955) | George Sanders | 1.6 | 33.6 | 93.20 | 150 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 68.1 | |
113 | Frances in The Navy (1955) | Clint Eastwood | 2.7 | 56.3 | 56.30 | 118 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 67.1 | |
114 | Prince of Players (1955) | Richard Burton & Maggie McNamara |
1.7 | 36.3 | 36.30 | 147 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 66.8 | |
116 | The Second Greatest Sex (1955) | Jeanne Crain | 4.0 | 82.9 | 82.90 | 84 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 66.3 | |
115 | The Dam Busters (1955) | Robert Shaw | 0.9 | 17.8 | 21.40 | 180 | 73 | 01 / 00 | 66.1 | |
117 | Strange Lady in Town (1955) | Greer Garson & Dana Andrews |
3.3 | 69.1 | 92.20 | 96 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 65.9 | |
119 | At Gunpoint (1955) | Fred MacMurray & Walter Brennan |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 110 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 65.1 | |
117 | Three Stripes in the Sun (1955) | 1.3 | 26.7 | 26.70 | 158 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 64.7 | ||
120 | The Last Command (1955) | Ernest Borgnine | 2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 113 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 64.6 | |
121 | The Prisoner (1955) | Alec Guinness | 0.8 | 15.7 | 15.70 | 182 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 64.2 | |
122 | Footsteps in the Fog (1955) | Jean Simmons | 1.2 | 25.2 | 25.20 | 161 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 64.1 | |
125 | The Purple Mask (1955) | Tony Curtis & Angela Lansbury |
2.7 | 56.6 | 56.60 | 116 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 64.0 | |
124 | The Light Across the Street/La lumière d'en face (1955) | 2.1 | 43.2 | 43.20 | 136 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 63.8 | ||
126 | The Prodigal (1955) | Lana Turner | 6.4 | 133.3 | 133.30 | 46 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 63.7 | |
125 | Tall Man Riding (1955) | Randolph Scott & Dorothy Malone |
4.0 | 82.9 | 82.90 | 83 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 63.7 | |
127 | Tight Spot (1955) | Ginger Rogers & Edward G. Robinson |
1.9 | 39.4 | 39.40 | 139 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 62.6 | |
129 | Ten Wanted Men (1955) | Randolph Scott & Lee Van Cleef |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 111 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 61.5 | |
128 | The Naked Dawn (1955) | 1.0 | 19.7 | 19.70 | 172 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 61.4 | ||
129 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) | Bud Abbott & Mack Sennett |
2.1 | 44.1 | 44.10 | 134 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 61.1 | |
131 | The End of The Affair (1955) | Deborah Kerr & Van Johnson |
1.8 | 37.0 | 37.00 | 144 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 60.8 | |
133 | Smoke Signal (1955) | Dana Andrews | 2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 103 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 60.6 | |
134 | The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) | Shelley Winters | 3.3 | 68.1 | 68.10 | 97 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 60.5 | |
132 | Crashout (1955) | 1.3 | 27.0 | 27.00 | 156 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 60.2 | ||
134 | The Dark Avenger/The Warriors (1955) | Errol Flynn | 2.2 | 44.7 | 44.70 | 132 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 59.8 | |
135 | Killer's Kiss (1955) | Directed by Stanley Kubrick | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.60 | 206 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 59.5 | |
137 | The Far Horizons (1955) | Charlton Heston & Fred MacMurray |
4.6 | 94.8 | 94.80 | 75 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 59.3 | |
136 | A Prize of Gold (1955) | Richard Widmark | 2.3 | 46.8 | 46.80 | 128 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 59.2 | |
138 | The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) | José Ferrer & Trevor Howard |
0.9 | 19.0 | 19.00 | 176 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 58.8 | |
141 | Female on the Beach (1955) | Joan Crawford & Jeff Chandler |
2.2 | 45.9 | 45.90 | 130 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 58.6 | |
142 | The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) | Robert Taylor | 1.9 | 39.0 | 128.80 | 140 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 58.5 | |
142 | The Night My Number Came Up (1955) | 0.3 | 7.2 | 7.20 | 196 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 58.4 | ||
143 | The Naked Street (1955) | Anthony Quinn & Farley Granger |
1.1 | 23.0 | 23.00 | 167 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 58.2 | |
144 | The Eternal Sea (1955) | Sterling Hayden & Dean Jagger |
1.8 | 37.0 | 37.00 | 142 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 58.1 | |
145 | Storm Fear (1955) | Dan Duryea | 1.8 | 36.9 | 36.90 | 146 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 57.9 | |
146 | The Last Frontier (1955) | Victor Mature & Anne Bancroft |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 104 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 57.5 | |
147 | The Shrike (1955) | June Allyson | 1.8 | 37.0 | 37.00 | 145 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 56.3 | |
148 | I Died A Thousand Times (1955) | Lee Marvin | 1.1 | 22.2 | 22.20 | 169 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 55.9 | |
149 | Ain't Misbehavin' (1955) | Musicals & Rory Calhoun |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 108 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 54.7 | |
151 | Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) | Jane Russell | 4.3 | 88.8 | 88.80 | 78 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 54.6 | |
151 | Top Gun (1955) | Rod Taylor | 1.2 | 25.0 | 25.00 | 162 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 54.2 | |
152 | It's A Dog's Life (1955) | Dean Jagger & Dog Movies |
1.0 | 21.1 | 30.10 | 170 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 53.6 | |
153 | The Americano (1955) | Glenn Ford & Frank Lovejoy |
3.6 | 74.0 | 74.00 | 93 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 53.1 | |
156 | Hell's Island (1955) | John Payne | 2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 106 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 52.8 | |
155 | Seven Angry Men (1955) | Jeffrey Hunter | 0.4 | 7.4 | 7.40 | 195 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 51.0 | |
156 | Unchained (1955) | Barbara Hale | 1.2 | 25.5 | 33.20 | 160 | 61 | 01 / 00 | 50.1 | |
157 | Escape to Burma (1955) | Barbara Stanwyck & Robert Ryan |
2.5 | 51.7 | 51.70 | 121 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 49.9 | |
157 | Storm Over the Nile (1955) | 0.9 | 17.8 | 17.80 | 178 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 49.7 | ||
158 | A Lawless Street (1955) | Randolph Scott & Angela Lansbury |
2.2 | 44.8 | 44.80 | 131 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 49.0 | |
160 | Confidential Report (1955) | Michael Redgrave | 0.1 | 1.9 | 1.90 | 205 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 47.3 | |
163 | 5 Against the House (1955) | Brian Keith | 2.1 | 42.7 | 42.70 | 138 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 46.2 | |
160 | Doctor At Sea/Rendez-vous a Rio (1955) | 1.1 | 23.0 | 23.00 | 166 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 45.6 | ||
163 | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | John Agar | 3.1 | 65.2 | 65.20 | 98 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 44.7 | |
165 | Pearl of the South Pacific (1955) | Virginia Mayo | 2.4 | 48.9 | 48.90 | 125 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 43.9 | |
164 | A Man Alone (1955) | Ray Milland | 1.8 | 37.0 | 37.00 | 143 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 43.9 | |
167 | Illegal (1955) | Edward G. Robinson | 0.4 | 9.1 | 10.10 | 192 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 43.0 | |
166 | Simon And Laura (1955) | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.20 | 207 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 42.9 | ||
170 | Special Delivery (1955) | Joseph Cotten | 1.6 | 32.6 | 32.60 | 152 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 42.7 | |
167 | The Marauders (1955) | Dan Duryea | 1.6 | 32.6 | 32.60 | 151 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 42.7 | |
168 | Make Me An Offer! (1955) | 0.2 | 3.6 | 3.60 | 198 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 42.5 | ||
173 | The Girl Rush (1955) | Rosalind Russell | 2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 101 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 41.6 | |
170 | City of Shadows (1955) | 0.9 | 19.2 | 19.20 | 175 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 40.4 | ||
173 | Captain Lightfoot (1955) | Rock Hudson & Barbara Rush |
3.6 | 74.0 | 74.00 | 92 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 39.5 | |
173 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) | Bud Abbott & Marie Windsor |
2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 112 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 39.1 | |
175 | Jump Into Hell (1955) | Jacques Sernas | 1.2 | 24.8 | 44.30 | 164 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 37.1 | |
176 | The Magnificent Matador (1955) | Maureen O'Hara & Anthony Quinn |
2.4 | 50.4 | 50.40 | 124 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 36.4 | |
177 | A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) | 0.1 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 202 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 34.9 | ||
178 | Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) | Maureen O'Hara | 2.3 | 47.5 | 47.50 | 127 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 34.3 | |
178 | That Lady (1955) | Olivia de Havilland & Gilbert Roland |
0.9 | 17.8 | 17.80 | 179 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 34.2 | |
178 | The Scarlet Coat (1955) | John Sturges & George Sanders |
1.3 | 26.6 | 69.20 | 159 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 33.9 | |
182 | Kiss Of Fire (1955) | 1.5 | 31.5 | 31.50 | 153 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 33.8 | ||
180 | Devil Goddess (1955) | 0.7 | 13.9 | 13.90 | 184 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 33.7 | ||
183 | Conquest of Space (1955) | Walter Brooke | 2.9 | 59.2 | 59.20 | 105 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 33.4 | |
184 | King's Rhapsody (1955) | Errol Flynn & Anna Neagle |
1.3 | 26.8 | 26.80 | 157 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 32.6 | |
185 | I Am a Camera (1955) | Shelley Winters | 0.5 | 10.4 | 10.40 | 191 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 30.4 | |
186 | Day the World Ended (1955) | Directed by Roger Corman | 1.1 | 23.7 | 23.70 | 165 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 30.1 | |
185 | Bring Your Smile Along (1955) | Blake Edwards | 0.9 | 19.3 | 19.30 | 174 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 28.1 | |
186 | Jungle Moon Men (1955) | 0.9 | 18.2 | 18.20 | 177 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 26.9 | ||
187 | Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) | Michael Redgrave | 0.1 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 200 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 24.3 | |
189 | The King's Thief (1955) | David Niven & George Sanders |
1.4 | 28.3 | 28.30 | 155 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 22.3 | |
191 | Godzilla Raids Again (1955) | Godzilla Movies | 0.1 | 3.0 | 40.90 | 199 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 22.2 | |
190 | The Fast and the Furious (1955) | John Ireland & Dorothy Malone |
0.7 | 14.8 | 14.80 | 183 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 20.9 | |
195 | Bedevilled (1955) | Anne Baxter | 1.5 | 31.1 | 62.00 | 154 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 20.4 | |
194 | To Paris With Love (1955) | Alec Guinness | 0.6 | 11.9 | 11.90 | 189 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 19.1 | |
193 | Sincerly Yours (1955) | Liberace & Dorothy Malone |
0.4 | 7.8 | 7.80 | 194 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 18.7 | |
194 | Female Jungle (1955) | Anne Baxter & John Carradine |
0.6 | 13.3 | 13.30 | 186 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 17.8 | |
195 | No Place To Hide (1955) | 0.1 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 203 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 14.7 | ||
196 | An Annapolis Story (1955) | Directed by Don Siegel | 0.4 | 8.9 | 8.90 | 193 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 14.6 | |
199 | School for Love/Futures vedettes (1955) | 0.9 | 19.7 | 19.70 | 173 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 13.9 | ||
200 | Bengazi (1955) | Victor McLaglen | 0.6 | 11.6 | 11.60 | 190 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 13.2 | |
201 | Caroline and the Rebels/Le fils de Caroline chérie (1955) | 1.7 | 34.6 | 34.60 | 148 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 13.1 | ||
202 | Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) | Gordon Scott | 1.2 | 24.9 | 56.50 | 163 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 12.4 | |
203 | Texas Lady (1955) | Claudette Colbert & Barry Sullivan |
1.1 | 22.2 | 22.20 | 168 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 11.6 | |
204 | A Bullet for Joey (1955) | Edward G. Robinson | 1.6 | 34.0 | 34.00 | 149 | 37 | 00 / 00 | 10.7 | |
205 | The Gun That Won the West (1955) | Dennis Morgan | 0.6 | 12.7 | 12.70 | 188 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 9.6 | |
206 | Pirates of Tripoli (1955) | Paul Henreid | 0.6 | 13.3 | 13.30 | 185 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 8.8 | |
207 | La vedova X/The Widow (1955) | 0.6 | 13.2 | 13.20 | 187 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 7.7 | ||
208 | Apache Woman (1955) | 0.2 | 4.1 | 4.10 | 197 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 6.8 |
1955 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide
Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) | S |
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Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) | S |
Battle Cry (1955) | Van Heflin | 544.90 | |
Mister Roberts (1955) AA Best Picture Nom |
Henry Fonda & James Cagney |
499.60 | |
The Sea Chase (1955) | John Wayne & Lana Turner |
431.10 | |
East of Eden (1955) | James Dean | 337.70 | |
Love Me or Leave Me (1955) | James Cagney & Doris Day |
333.60 | |
Daddy Long Legs (1955) | Fred Astaire & Leslie Caron |
239.90 | |
Interrupted Melody (1955) | Glenn Ford & Roger Moore |
238.50 | |
Many Rivers To Cross (1955) | Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker |
227.00 | |
Soldier of Fortune (1955) | Clark Gable & Susan Hayward |
226.90 | |
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | Spencer Tracy & Robert Ryan |
226.40 | |
Hit The Deck (1955) | Jane Powell & Walter Pidgeon |
204.00 | |
The Glass Slipper (1955) | Leslie Caron | 174.80 | |
Hell On Frisco Bay (1955) | Edward G. Robinson & Alan Ladd |
167.10 | |
Blood Alley (1955) | John Wayne & Lauren Bacall |
162.20 | |
Jupiter's Darling (1955) | Esther Williams & Howard Keel |
153.40 | |
It's Always Fair Weather (1955) | Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse |
140.60 | |
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) | Robert Taylor | 128.80 | |
The Cobweb (1955) | Richard Widmark & Lauren Bacall |
124.00 | |
Kismet (1955) | Vincent Minnelli & Howard Keel |
108.20 | |
Moonfleet (1955) | George Sanders | 93.20 | |
Strange Lady in Town (1955) | Greer Garson & Dana Andrews |
92.20 | |
The Scarlet Coat (1955) | John Sturges & George Sanders |
69.20 | |
New York Confidential (1955) | Anne Bancroft | 62.70 | |
Bedevilled (1955) | Anne Baxter | 62.00 | |
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) | Gordon Scott | 56.50 | |
Jump Into Hell (1955) | Jacques Sernas | 44.30 | |
Godzilla Raids Again (1955) | Godzilla Movies | 40.90 | |
Unchained (1955) | Barbara Hale | 33.20 | |
It's A Dog's Life (1955) | Dean Jagger & Dog Movies |
30.10 | |
The Dam Busters (1955) | Robert Shaw | 21.40 | |
Illegal (1955) | Edward G. Robinson | 10.10 | |
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) | Directed by Ingmar Bergman | 6.00 |
The top 25 earners in World Wide Box Office for 1955
Name | Number of Movies | ||
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Name | Number of Movies | Total Adj USA (mil) | Total Adj World Wide (mil) |
Frank Sinatra | 4 | 1,247.0 | 1,247.0 |
James Whitmore | 4 | 1,166.8 | 1,231.9 |
James Cagney | 4 | 1,008.9 | 1,158.9 |
Lee Marvin | 5 | 931.4 | 1,039.3 |
Jack Elam | 8 | 866.7 | 994.0 |
Tab Hunter | 2 | 835.2 | 976.0 |
Gloria Grahame | 3 | 929.8 | 965.0 |
Jo Van Fleet | 3 | 900.6 | 942.1 |
Dorothy Malone | 6 | 869.6 | 934.7 |
Raymond Massey | 4 | 819.7 | 926.3 |
Peggy Lee | 2 | 895.6 | 895.6 |
Glenn Ford | 5 | 756.3 | 888.2 |
Cameron Mitchell | 5 | 749.3 | 867.0 |
Eddie Albert | 3 | 835.3 | 835.3 |
Harry Morgan | 2 | 805.5 | 805.5 |
Ward Bond | 3 | 712.2 | 767.6 |
Aldo Ray | 3 | 684.2 | 749.3 |
Patrick Wayne | 2 | 675.2 | 730.6 |
Susan Hayward | 3 | 666.6 | 730.6 |
Lana Turner | 3 | 642.7 | 718.4 |
Eleanor Parker | 3 | 471.6 | 707.1 |
Jack Lemmon | 3 | 624.8 | 680.2 |
Kim Novak | 3 | 660.4 | 660.4 |
Rod Steiger | 3 | 646.3 | 646.3 |
Saul Bass | 5 | 640.7 | 640.7 |
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Hi,
just thought I had to check what’s going on in Cogerson world, and again I find so many new entries I’d love to leave my 2 cents at…
About this one: I’ve seen 75 movies (but non recently, as there hardly is any time to watch a movie!)
Favorites include Oklahoma!, The Rose Tattoo, East of Eden,Jennifer Jones in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and Good Morning, Miss Dove, All That Heaven Allows, Not as a Stranger, The Desperate Hours, This Island Earth, Tarantula (both are childhood favs), over the top Joan Crawford in Queen Bee, Jean Simmons in the british Footsteps in the Fog and the only film directed by Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter- one of my alltime favorite movies.
Sad to see Maureen O’Hara (minus Ty Power) and especially Claudette Colbert performing so weakly at the box office, but at least Maureen would soon return to former Glory with Parent Trap, while Colbert would end her illustrious movie career as the mother of Troy Donahue very shortly…maybe a better decision than joining the AC Lyle bandwagon. She returned to the stage and made a well received TV movie in the years to come.
Although I am a big fan of MM and Hitchcock, there ’55 outings are pretty low on my personal list of favorite movies. As always, I enjoyed this yearly overview on classic movies. Thanks for all your efforts…and I will try to honour those with more frequent comments ;O)
Hey Lupino
1. I would say we average about 3 new pages a week….so if you were away 2 weeks….then we probably have 6 new pages. We keep busy.,,,lol.
2. 75 is pretty impressive….thanks for the tally count.
3. Not as a Stranger has always fascinated me , even though I have never seen it….but a cast of Marvin, Mitchum and Sinatra as doctors ? Good to see you like it.
4. I have also not seen This Island Earth, but based on some of the stellar comments on this page about that movie it seems like one I should watch.
5. O’Hara had some gas left in the tank, can’t say the same thing about Colbert.
6. I like To Catch A Thief but is my least favorite Hitch/Grant movie.
Good to hear from you again.
Hi Bruce,
this time I’ve only been away for one week- but before it’s been two…A few weeks ago I rewatched my DVD of Not as a Stranger, and it held up pretty well! My print of Texas Lady even spelled Colberts name wrong in the title-it read “Claudette Colber”- not sure if this was the way the movie opened in cinemas back in the day, but I’m afraid it was more likely than not….quite an insult to a true movie legend whose heyday was less than a decade away. To catch a Thief is not a bad movie, neither are The Troubly with Harry or The Seven Year Itch…but compared to other Hitch or Monroe movies I found them some of their least interesting- for my taste, that is. By the way, I do miss my friend Pierre here, always enjoyed talking european movies with him!
Hey Lupino…..well….just remember….we are open 24 hours a day….7 days a week…..365 days a year…..so whenever you find time….works with our schedule….lol. Good to know about Not As A Stranger….I have never seen a VHS, Laserdisc, DVD or Blu-Ray of that movie….but one day I will finally see it. Now that is no respect for Claudette Cobert. I understand your point about Hitch and Marilyn’s movies. As for Pierre….he like you has taken a break for a little while…..but I have a feeling he will be making another appearance soon. Thanks for the additional information.
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
Here is another film released in December 18, 1954.
“Sign Of the Pagan” starring Jeff Chandler.
IMDB says there were 2,500,000 rentals.
Thx
Mike
Hey Mike. Just added Sign of the Pagan to the database. Since it was made and released in 1954….it is on our 1954 page….even though it made most of it’s money in 1955. It is ranked 56th on our 1954 UMR page. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/top-grossing-movies-of-1954/
Thanks for the suggestion.
I’ve seen 53 of the 152 films listed, probably more but that’s how many I know for sure. I have 84 films from 1955 in my movie collection, some not included here. I haven’t watched them all.
Favorites include – Conquest of Space, This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Revenge of the Creature (not on the chart), Tarantula, The Quatermass Experiment (not charted), Bad Day at Black Rock, It’s Always Fair Weather, Lady and the Tramp, Mister Roberts, The Trouble With Harry and To Catch a Thief.
There are plenty of western favorites here too including – The Tall Men, Tall Man Riding, The Man from Laramie, The Far Country and Man Without a Star.
Top rated flicks I haven’t seen – Rififi, Marty, All That Heaven Allows and Summertime.
Whoa! I didn’t expect Battle Cry to be that successful, nearly caught up with Mister Roberts at the box office.
Interesting seeing the adjusted grosses of some of my sci-fi favorites – $80m for This Island Earth is not bad considering it had no big names attached. That’s about as much as Blade Runner 2049 managed this year at the US box office and that cost a lot more to produce.
Another epic movie year page Bruce, keep em coming. Vote Up!
This Island Earth is a much better movie too.
BRUCE/STEVE 1 BRUCE I see you didn’t if I may use an old betting analogy “put your money where Joel’s mouth was”. Miss Grahame was such a “hot property” that you didn’t list her among the stars of Not as a Stranger, The Cobweb OR Oklahoma – and I’m sure that you didn’t forget Lana Turner was in 1952 Bad and the Beautiful in the way you say you overlooked Gloria. To again paraphrase Barbara Hershey’s statement to Hackman in Best Shot/Hoosiers “Well, I guess hot properties come very cheap these days.”
2 Seriously though you produced excellent work in giving us this 1955 annual review so hard on the heels of the 1954 one. We’re nearly there as regards the 50s! and meanwhile you’ve given me much food for thought with the 1955 one and a lot to do in transcribing a host of your figures into my own database. Many thanks for your efforts.
3 STEVE. Even the mention of one old movie can evoke many nostalgic memories. I vividly recall going to the Gaumont cinema in Belfast one rainy Monday night in 1955 to see This Island Earth. It was on the 2nd half of a double bill with my Joan’s Female on the Beach co-starring Big Jeff. I enjoyed This Island Earth but for me my Joan was still the Queen Bee of that double bill and indeed I see her film of that name is also listed in the table above. The WH is nothing if not thorough.
4 That double bill though illustrates a point I’ve made before. Preferences for stars probably vary from one place to the next and certainly in Belfast Jeff Chandler was one the top favourites in the 1950s and whatever the official position or the situation elsewhere Jeff’s films and name usually topped bills over here. As said Female on the Beach was top of the bill when I saw it and yet Bruce’s table shows that in the US it made less than half the take of This Island Earth –$36 million to $80 respectively. Jeff co-wrote and personally sang the title song for Foxfire with Jane Russell and his rendition had all the ladies over here swooning! Of course “Mr Thorough” also lists Foxfire in his table and you could now get Jeff singing the song on U Tube .
Hey Bob
1. As you know…I generally list co-stars that have UMR pages….and it most of your examples….there are stars with links. So far…Gloria is UMR less. Of course if I only listed the co-stars by legends…Gloria would have been first with all of the movies.
2. Glad you like this new yearly report…..which as you can see in Mike’s comment….can be even better….as we add in more movies.
3. Interesting story about The Island Earth and Female on the Beach….double features are not something that were still around in my youth….but it sounds like you got the pleasure of seeing many movies like that.
4. Wow…..never realized Chandler was so big over there….Chandler like Gloria is UMR less…..sounds like an epidemic…lol.
5. I imagine some studio executive had the job of matching titles for double bills…..I imagine different countries got different matches. Makes you wonder.
Good stuff.
HI BRUCE
1 At the risk of sounding like a broken record I will repeat that one of the great values of this site is that it enables me to put at last films that I saw years ago in their proper box office perspective. Thus I am regularly realising that movies on double bills that I thought were top of the heap some 60 years ago weren’t always as popular elsewhere as the second feature.
2 Oh if only Steve could realise what a magnificent tool reliable comprehensive stats like yours are! He is excellent at measuring the artistic quality of movies and has an impeccable eye for fine posters and stills but he will never be able to put movies in their proper commercial perspective until he starts building up an overview of stats.
3 By the way I did realise that Gloria does not have a Cogerson link but regardless of what Joel says that in itself speaks volumes to me after some 6 years of your opening for business. Conversely the Hirschhorn-despised Mumbles and Duke had pages on your site when I first came across it in its early days.
4 I therefore like to think that in your heart of hearts you like I know that Gloria doesn’t deserve too much credit for the massive grosses of films like Not as a Stranger, Oklahoma and Greatest Show on Earth though I would concede that Myrna does have a reasonable claim claim to a respectable measure of the ones you’ve credited to her.
4 As I’ve said Archie Leach was actually the first page that I spotted – accidentally – and i thought it was just an isolated presentation and didn’t realise the “pot of gold” that lay behind it. Imagine my delight when I discovered that many of my other idols like again Mumbles and Duke also had pages at that time. It was like Moses actually being admitted to the Promised Land
Dan, Bob, Bruce, This Island Earth is one of my favorite sci-fi movies of the 1950s, I would group it with Forbidden Planet, Day the Earth Stood Still and Howard Hawks The Thing as all time favorites of that period of American cold war paranioia “reds under the bed” and all that stuff.
I envy Bob watching it on the big screen when it was still brand new. I bought it on Super 8 way back in the 70s, just a 16min digest, later I managed to tape the whole movie on video thanks to the BBC. Thank Christ for VHS, Super 8 was far too expensive and at least I could keep the entire movie. 🙂
HI STEVE
1 I saw and enjoyed all the sci fi films that you have listed but I think that my fave movie of the genre was the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers which also film historians regard as a cold war propaganda film with the aliens who were taking over the bodies of earthlings designed to conjure up in the minds of audiences parallels with the designs of “The Reds”
2 Indeed in those days Red was often worked into the titles of movies to remind people of the Russians – for example the 1952 film Red Planet Mars and Laddie’s 1951 Red Mountain which was meant to convey a place of evil such as Russia.
3 My own view is that whatever one thinks of the rights and wrongs of the cold or other direct military wars the propaganda machine often shot itself in the foot by drawing up unrealistic and at times farcical. analogies on the screen.
4 For example if my memory is correct The Duke’s Green Berets is a case in point. In it David Janssen plays a cynical War Correspondent who doesn’t believe in the American cause in Nam so Wayne invites him out to see for himself. Of course when Janssen arrives the Cong carry out an attack which kills people and Janssen tells the Duke that he Jannsen is now won over to the American cause.
5 To me that kind of conversion is incredulous. I mean regardless of the rights and wrongs of the war did Jannsen’s character think the it was wrong IN ITSELF for the Cong to attack their enemy in war? In wars both sides do that and inflict casualties.
Hey Dan…. I will have to check that one out.
Hey Steve
1. Tally count…Dan 97, Steve 53, me 33 and Laurent 26.
2. I am sure as time passes my totals will continue to increase…..and I will pick up many of those 31 movies in your collection that are not in my table.
3. Not surprised the two Hitchcock movies made your favorites list….even more not surprised that some many science fiction movies got a Lensman mention.
4. You got me confused about The Far Country. Do you mean The Far Horizons? Your boy Chuck was in Far Horizons….so I can see you liking that one…..but The Far Country…..maybe you have it mixed up with a good Heston movie…The Big Country. Heston was pretty busy in 1955.
5. Of the ones you missed…..Summertime is a wonderful tourist look at how Venice looked int he 1950s….but the movie is dreadfully dull.
6. Thanks for the vote up and the feedback.
Bruce, I had The Far Country listed as a 1955 film in my datafiles, it did premiere in New York and Los Angeles in 1955, so one of the books or websites I looked at years ago must have listed it as a 1955 film. I haven’t seen The Far Horizons.
Hey Steve…I understand now….I went forward in time in my search for The Far Country…versus going back in time to fine the Stewart The Far Country…The Far Country, The Big Country and The Far Horizons…put them all together and you have the epic movie..The Big Country in The Far Horizons….now that is a movie I would want to see….what a cast…Peck, Heston, MacMurray, Stewart, Simmons, Reed and Baker….not to mention support work from Supporting Actor legends…Brennan, Ives and Bickford.
Shocked that you have not seen The Far Horizons….but then again….I did not really enjoy that movie. Good feedback.
HI BRUCE 1 The Far Country along with Bend of the River, Winchester 73, Naked Spur and The Man from Laramie comprise a great group of westerns that Jimmy made in the early 1950s. They are what drew me to Stewart and he became my No 3 idol ever after with Widmark and Peck being No 1 and No 2 respectively.
2 Some historians reckon that the embittered, selfish characters that Stewart played in Far Country and Naked Spur were maybe the first anti-heroes though as in those days they couldn’t take that persona too far Jimmy redeems himself in the end and “gets the girl”
3 John McIntyre almost steals Far Country as a Judge Roy Bean figure who has appointed himself the Town Leader and always claims to speak for “The People” and whom Jimmy always respectfully calls Mr Gannon even when the two are out to kill each other.
4 McIntureHe is just about to hang some poor unfortunate when when Stewart’s cows run through the town and wreck the gallows and when “The People” are about to arrest Jimmy a river boat captain runs up and says he’s “taking” Stewart because he’s wanted elsewhere for murder., McIntyre snarls “You’re taking no one! He’s wanted here for busting up a hanging.”
5 McIntyre then confiscates Jimmy’s cattle as punishment and sets him free and Stewart asks him “OK if we keep our horses?” to which McIntyre replies “The People ain’t interested in horses!” Later when Stewart is a thorn in McIntyre’s side John say to Ruth Roman “I should’ve hanged that man when I had the chance.”
6 I vividly remember queuing for Far Country one cold winter’s nigh at the Belfast Imperial and for Bend of the River one lovely summer’s evening at our Picturedrome..Back then I thought that cinemas like those were set in stone for all time but both are now long gone. What the writer Sir Philip Gibbs called The Spoils of Time Jimmy’s sadly gone too of course but I suppose it’s some comfort that I’m still here!
Hey Steve….the fact that Blade Runner 2049 was not a big box office hit….seems to be some type of mystery…….seems nobody is remembering that Blade Runner was a huge flop…..and it was made when Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford were on fire. So making a sequel to a movie that was a flop was not a good decision. Don’t get me wrong….I really liked the new movie….so just saying to the mass public…the Blade Runner storyline is no Harry Potter, Star Wars or Marvel movie.
Up slightly in 1955 here are the 97 films plus 1 serial I have seen between December 1992 and December 2006. Key is film, studio, stars if I listed back then, date watched and source (tape, DVD or TV channel).
AFRICAN LION (DOC.) 1955 BV XXX XXX 4/25 1996 DIS
ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY (U.K.) 1955 RANK DONALD SINDEN JEANNIE CARSON 5/12 2009 TCM
ANNAPOLIS STORY 1955 AA JOHN DEREK DIANA LYNN 8/14 2001 LOVE
APACHE AMBUSH 1955 COL BILL WILLIAMS 2/2 1993 TNT
BEAST WITH 1,000,000 EYES 1955 AMER. REL PAUL BIRCH LORNA THAYER 4/8 2007 TCM
BEDEVILLED 1955 MGM ANNE BAXTER STEVE FORREST 12/5 2003 TCM
BIG BLUFF 1955 TOWER MARTHA VICKERS 11/26 1992 AMC
BIG HOUSE U.S.A. 1955 UA BRODERICK CRAWFORD RALPH MEEKER 2/11 1997 TNT
BIG KNIFE 1955 UA JACK PALANCE IDA LUPINO 8/20 1995 13
BLOOD ALLEY 1955 WB JOHN WAYNE LAUREN BACALL 3/19 1994 TBS
BRING YOUR SMILE ALONG 1955 COL FRANKIE LAINE KEEFE BRASELLE 4/17 2007 TCM
BULLET FOR JOEY 1955 UA GEORGE RAFT EDWARD G. ROBINSON 9/7 2001 TCM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (U.K.) 1955 DCA DIRK BOGARDE MARGARET LOCKWOOD 9/8 1996 13
CELL 2455, DEATH ROW 1955 COL 4/10 2016 MOVIES
CHICAGO SYNDICATE 1955 COL DENNIS O’KEEFE ABBE LANE 12/22 2007 TCM
CINERAMA HOLIDAY 1955 CRC 10/23 2011 DVD
COUNT THREE AND PRAY 1955 COL VAN HEFLIN JOANNE WOODWARD 5/22 1994 TNT
CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN 1955 COL RICHARD DENNING 12/26 1993 TNT
DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER 1955 BV FESS PARKER BUDDY EBSEN 8/6 1996 DIS
DEMENTIA 1955 EXPLOITION FILMS XXX XXX 11/16 2010 TCM
DEVIL GODDESS 1955 COL JOHNNY WEISSMULLER 2/15 1998 AMC
END OF THE AFFAIR (U.K.) 1955 COL DEBORAH KERR VAN JOHNSON 12/1 2008 TCM
FAST AND THE FURIOUS 1955 AMER. REL JOHN IRELAND DOROTHY MALONE 12/30 2007 TCM
FINGER MAN 1955 AA FRANK LOVEJOY FORREST TUCKER 12/23 2000 MYST
FIVE AGAINST THE HOUSE 1955 COL GUY MADISON KIM NOVAK 9/27 1993 TNT
GANG BUSTERS 1955 VISUAL DRAMA 11/19 2012 TCM
GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES 1955 UA JANE RUSSELL JEANNE CRAIN 1/2 1999 TCM
GIGANTIS, THE FIRE MONSTER (JAP.) 1955 WB XXX XXX 11/20 1994 DIS
GIRL RUSH 1955 PAR ROSALIND RUSSELL FERNANDO LAMAS 6/5 1993 AMC
HELEN OF TROY 1955 WB XXX XXX 7/4 1998 AMC
HORNET’S NEST (U.K.) 1955 GFD 5/21 2007 TCM
INDIAN FIGHTER 1955 UA KIRK DOUGLAS ELSA MARTINELLI 2/10 1997 TNT
IT’S A DOG’S LIFE 1955 MGM EDMUND GWENN JEFF RICHARDS 6/19 2005 TCM
JOE MACBETH 1955 COL PAUL DOUGLAS RUTH ROMAN 12/28 1992 TNT
JUMP INTO HELL 1955 WB XXX XXX 3/23 2000 ACTN
JUNGLE MOON MEN 1955 COL JOHNNY WEISSMULLER 2/1 1998 AMC
KING OF THE CARNIVAL 1955 REP 11/21 1995 TAPE
KISS OF FIRE 1955 UNI JACK PALANCE BARBARA RUSH 9/26 1994 AMC
LADY GODIVA 1955 UNI MAUREEN O’HARA GEORGE NADER 8/21 1994 AMC
LAWLESS STREET 1955 COL RANDOLPH SCOTT ANGELA LANSBURY 11/10 1992 TNT
LAY THAT RIFLE DOWN 1955 REP JUDY CANOVA ROBERT LOWERY 1/23 2013 DVD
LIFE AND LOVES OF MOZART (GER.) 1955 BILANS INTL 1/31 2013 DVD
LIFE IN THE BALANCE 1955 FOX RICARDO MONTALBAN ANNE BANCROFT 4/6 2009 FXM
LORD OF THE JUNGLE 1955 AA JOHNNY SHEFFIELD WAYNE MORRIS 3/24 2012 TCM
MA AND PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI 1955 UNI XXX XXX 10/22 1995 TAPE
MAGDALENA (MEX.) 1955 CLASA-MOHAN 4/28 2015 DVD
MAN BETWEEN (U.K.) 1955 UA JAMES MASON CLAIRE BLOOM 6/7 2009 TCM
MAN WITH THE GUN 1955 UA ROBERT MITCHUM JAN STERLING 7/11 1995 TNT
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS 1955 MGM ROBERT TAYLOR ELEANOR PARKER 4/19 1995 TNT
MR. ARKADIN (SP-SW.) 1955 CARI ORSON WELLES 7/18 1995 31
MURDER IS MY BEAT 1955 AA XXX XXX 3/6 2001 MYST
NAKED DAWN 1955 UA ARTHUR KENNEDY 1/21 1995 AMC
NIGHT HOLDS TERROR 1955 COL JACK KELLY HILDY PARKS 12/15 2002 TRUE
NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP (U.K.) 1955 CONTINENTAL MICHAEL REDGRAVE 1/26 1997 13
ONE DESIRE 1955 UNI ANNE BAXTER ROCK HUDSON 11/7 1994 AMC
PANTHER GIRL OF THE JUNGLE 1955 REP 4/20 1993 TAPE (SERIAL)
PIRATES OF TRIPOLI 1955 COL PAUL HENREID PATRICIA MEDINA 6/19 1993 TNT
PRINCE OF PLAYERS 1955 FOX RICHARD BURTON 3/22 2000 FXM
PRISONER, THE (U.K.) 1955 COL ALEC GUINNESS JACK HAWKINS 1/16 2013 TCM
PURPLE MASK 1955 UNI TONY CURTIS 2/25 1995 AMC
QUARTERMASS EXPERIMENT (U.K.) 1955 UA BRIAN DONLEVY 10/28 1999 TCM
QUEEN BEE 1955 COL JOAN CRAWFORD BARRY SULLIVAN 3/26 1994 TNT
RAINS OF RANCHIPUR 1955 FOX LANA TURNER RICHARD BURTON 2/22 1998 AMC
RETURN OF JACK SLADE 1955 AA JOHN ERICSON MARI BLANCHARD 11/25 2000 WEST
RHYTHM AND BLUES REVUE 1955 STUDIO FILM NAT KING COLE COUNT BASIE 1/14 2008 DVD
ROBBER’S ROOST 1955 UA GEORGE MONTGOMERY RICHARD BOONE 3/16 1997 FLIX
ROCK AND ROLL REVUE 1955 STUDIO FILM XXX XXX 1/14 2008 DVD
SCARLET COAT 1955 MGM CORNEL WILDE MICHAEL WILDING 6/27 2000 TCM
SECOND GREATEST SEX 1955 UNI JEANNE CRAIN GEORGE NADER 1/10 1996 AMC
SEMINOLE UPRISING 1955 COL GEORGE MONTGOMERY 12/19 1992 TNT
SEVEN ANGRY MEN 1955 AA RAYMOND MASSEY DEBRA PAGET 11/3 1997 HIS
SO THIS IS PARIS 1955 UNI TONY CURTIS GLORIA DE HAVEN 5/8 1995 AMC
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 1955 FOX CLARK GABLE SUSAN HAYWARD 9/13 1993 AMC
STORM OVER THE NILE (U.K.) 1955 COL ANTHONY STEEL LAURENCE HARVEY 11/16 1992 TNT
STRANGE LADY IN TOWN 1955 WB GREER GARSON DANA ANDREWS 2/12 2001 WEST
SWAMP WOMEN 1955 WOOLNER BROS. MICHAEL CONNORS MARIE WINDSOR 2/23 1995 COM
TARANTULA 1955 UNI JOHN AGAR 6/1 1997 SCI
TARGET ZERO 1955 WB RICHARD CONTE PEGGIE CASTLE 2/19 1994 TNT
TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE 1955 COL XXX XXX 4/27 1994 COM
TEN WANTED MEN 1955 COL RANDOLPH SCOTT 5/14 1994 TNT
TENNESSEE’S PARTNER 1955 RKO JOHN PAYNE RHONDA FLEMING 6/6 1993 AMC
TEXAS LADY 1955 RKO CLAUDETTE COLBERT BARRY SULLIVAN 12/6 2000 WEST
THE DETECTIVE (U.K.) 1955 COL ALEC GUINNESS JOAN GREENWOOD 1/26 2003 MYST
THE PRODIGAL 1955 MGM EDMUND PURDOM LANA TURNER 12/19 1992 TNT
THE RACERS 1955 FOX KIRK DOUGLAS BELLA DARVI 7/1 2000 ACTN
THE WARRIORS 1955 AA ERROL FLYNN JOANNE DRU 11/21 1992 TNT
THREE STRIPES IN THE SUN 1955 COL ALDO RAY PHIL CAREY 1/31 1993 TNT
TIMBERJACK 1955 REP STERLING HAYDEN VERA RALSTON 3/17 2000 WEST
TO PARIS WITH LOVE (U.K.) 1955 CONTINENTAL ALEC GUINNESS ODILE VERSOIS 1/27 2007 TCM
TOP GUN 1955 UA STERLING HAYDEN WILLIAM BISHOP 8/26 2000 TCM
TREASURE OF PANCHO VILLA 1955 RKO RORY CALHOUN SHELLEY WINTERS 8/19 1995 TNT
TRIAL 1955 MGM GLENN FORD DOROTHY MCGUIRE 9/15 1993 TNT
VANISHING AMERICAN 1955 REP SCOTT BRADY AUDREY TOTTER 4/7 2003 WEST
VIOLENT MEN 1955 COL GLENN FORD BARBARA STANWYCK 11/16 1993 TNT
WICHITA 1955 AA JOEL MCCREA VERA MILES 9/18 1994 TNT
WOMEN’S PRISON 1955 COL IDA LUPINO JAN STERLING 9/11 1993 TNT
YELLOWNECK 1955 REP 10/16 2012 DVD
YOUNG LOVERS (U.K.) 1955 PACEMAKER FILMS 5/2 2012 TCM
Hey Dan….97…pretty darn impressive….looking at your list….most of them are on the page. As always….interesting to read….some of these movies I have never even heard of…Second Greatest Sex? was that the second to The Greatest Sex?….lol. Lots of science fiction movies….I am sure that makes Steve happy. Good feedback as always.
Hello Bruce,
153 movies is impressive. I’ve seen only 26. My favorites are Moonfleet, Man Without Star, Sea chase, Bad Day At Bloack Rock, Rififi (one of the best gangster movies of the decade. the burglary scene is remarkable, one of the best of all times) and Kiss Me Deadly.
In France, Rififi and Diabolique were big success of course, but the two James Dean’s movies and To Catch a Thief were biggest (Grace Kelly was very popular).
Hey Laurent
1. 153…and I did not check my sources….this is just the ones that are 100% completed. But the 153 is now probably the biggest 1953 source out there.
2. I have seen 33 to your 26….so we are very very close.
3. Bad Day At Black Rock and Kiss Me Deadly would join Mister Roberts, How To Catch A Thief and Marty as my favorites.
4. Thanks for the breakdown from France’s eyes.