This is WoC (Wife of Cogerson). While I frequently make tech-support visits, I rarely ever contribute in visible ways. But, I wanted to do my own page. And I’m going to have fun with it, so I’m calling it
And that’s me, in a corner. Cogerson looked at me like I was nuts when I asked him to take that picture. That was at least half the fun. Probably closer to 75% of the fun if I’m honest. And if he doesn’t like it… I’ll change his password. Hah.
One of the things I get asked ALL the time – “What’s it really like living with Cogerson?” Well, I’ll tell you. Everything is movies. The pandemic of 2020 – in a movie. Life with the kids – in several movies. My career, his career (his other career) – both of them in movies. And, as you can imagine, the movie accoutrement in our house is extensive. Heck, we take full vacations around the idea of gathering more movie information.
Where am I going with this? Well, I’ll tell you. I found this book the other day, 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter by Jeremy Arnold
And while Cogerson remembers every movie he saw and where he was and why he watched it, I have not similarly spent brain power to commit these facts to the vault.
And, while he might be the perfect critical audience and reviewer, I believe I am the perfect movie participant. I cry, I laugh, I cringe, I hide under blankets, I shake with adrenaline, and I shake with fear. I don’t care what other movies this performer was in, I can’t list it and I only care if I believe them in this role.
With 52 movies in the title – it’s just begging for one movie a week. Like a book club with movies. That’s what I was thinking.
So, for as long as it lasts, I’m going to start the first UMR Movie Club.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept, (I think that’s a movie quote), is to watch one movie a week with me and discuss. I’ll compile the comments and add them to the trailer page for each movie as we go.
The first movie is going to be Rear Window. Watch it by Monday 5/11/2020, and then comment here.
| Movie Title | Watch By Date |
| Rear Window (1954) | 5/11/2020 |
The whole list, because Cogerson insisted:
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) AA Best Picture Win |
Peter O'Toole & Omar Sharif |
41.50 | 595.9 | 595.90 | 1 | 94 | 10 / 07 | 100.0 | |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind (1939) AA Best Picture Win |
Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh |
56.60 | 2,179.1 | 3,842.80 | 1 | 92 | 13 / 08 | 100.0 | |
| 3 | All About Eve (1950) AA Best Picture Win |
Bette Davis & Marliyn Monroe |
8.90 | 198.9 | 282.30 | 9 | 92 | 14 / 06 | 100.0 | |
| 3 | On the Waterfront (1954) AA Best Picture Win |
Marlon Brando & Rod Steiger |
12.00 | 281.2 | 281.20 | 20 | 92 | 12 / 08 | 100.0 | |
| 5 | Casablanca (1942) AA Best Picture Win |
Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman |
11.80 | 440.2 | 807.80 | 5 | 95 | 08 / 03 | 100.0 | |
| 4 | Ben-Hur (1959) AA Best Picture Win |
Charlton Heston & Stephen Boyd |
58.80 | 1,056.7 | 2,725.00 | 1 | 91 | 12 / 11 | 100.0 | |
| 6 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) AA Best Picture Win |
Myrna Loy & Fredric March |
19.30 | 595.2 | 965.60 | 1 | 90 | 08 / 07 | 99.9 | |
| 8 | Annie Hall (1977) AA Best Picture Win |
Woody Allen & Diane Keaton |
48.90 | 236.4 | 236.40 | 11 | 92 | 05 / 04 | 99.9 | |
| 7 | It Happened One Night (1934) AA Best Picture Win |
Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert |
5.20 | 243.9 | 402.40 | 3 | 90 | 05 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 12 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) AA Best Picture Win |
Sidney Poitier & Rod Steiger |
24.00 | 213.8 | 213.80 | 11 | 84 | 07 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 10 | Rocky (1976) AA Best Picture Win |
Sylvester Stallone & Burgess Meredith |
117.00 | 592.1 | 1,137.70 | 1 | 79 | 10 / 03 | 99.8 | |
| 11 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) AA Best Picture Win |
Lew Ayres & Louis Wolheim |
4.60 | 248.8 | 248.80 | 7 | 84 | 04 / 02 | 99.8 | |
| 13 | Jaws (1975) AA Best Picture Nom |
Robert Shaw & Richard Dreyfuss |
262.50 | 1,380.4 | 2,488.10 | 1 | 93 | 04 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 14 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) AA Best Picture Nom |
Gregory Peck & Robert Duvall |
22.90 | 328.6 | 328.60 | 7 | 90 | 08 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 15 | Double Indemnity (1944) AA Best Picture Nom |
Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck |
8.40 | 282.4 | 282.40 | 21 | 94 | 07 / 00 | 99.7 | |
| 16 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) AA Best Picture Nom |
James Stewart & Claude Rains |
9.60 | 369.6 | 369.60 | 3 | 89 | 11 / 01 | 99.6 | |
| 17 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) AA Best Picture Nom |
Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway |
57.00 | 507.8 | 507.80 | 3 | 87 | 10 / 02 | 99.6 | |
| 18 | Grand Hotel (1932) AA Best Picture Win |
Greta Garbo & Joan Crawford |
3.50 | 172.9 | 363.20 | 9 | 81 | 01 / 01 | 99.5 | |
| 18 | Some Like It Hot (1959) | Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis |
23.20 | 417.2 | 417.20 | 5 | 93 | 06 / 01 | 99.5 | |
| 20 | The Graduate (1967) AA Best Picture Nom |
Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft |
103.50 | 921.9 | 1,723.70 | 1 | 85 | 07 / 01 | 99.4 | |
| 20 | Rear Window (1954) | James Stewart & Grace Kelly |
23.20 | 543.6 | 543.60 | 2 | 94 | 04 / 00 | 99.3 | |
| 24 | Roman Holiday (1953) AA Best Picture Nom |
Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn |
9.10 | 163.3 | 163.30 | 22 | 89 | 10 / 03 | 99.2 | |
| 21 | North by Northwest (1959) | Cary Grant & James Mason |
19.20 | 344.1 | 554.50 | 7 | 93 | 03 / 00 | 99.2 | |
| 22 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Gene Kelly & Debbie Reynolds |
12.40 | 242.4 | 371.30 | 6 | 93 | 02 / 00 | 99.1 | |
| 25 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Holden & Gloria Swanson |
6.70 | 150.8 | 150.80 | 24 | 90 | 11 / 03 | 99.0 | |
| 26 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) AA Best Picture Nom |
Peter Sellers & Directed by Stanley Kubrick |
14.30 | 163.8 | 163.80 | 11 | 94 | 04 / 00 | 99.0 | |
| 27 | King Kong (1933) | Fay Wray & Bruce Cabot |
9.10 | 428.5 | 666.60 | 1 | 89 | 00 / 00 | 98.8 | |
| 28 | The Searchers (1956) | John Wayne & Natalie Wood |
14.00 | 274.4 | 371.40 | 14 | 89 | 00 / 00 | 98.8 | |
| 29 | City Lights (1931) | Charles Chaplin | 9.90 | 505.7 | 505.70 | 1 | 88 | 00 / 00 | 98.7 | |
| 32 | Now, Voyager (1942) | Bette Davis & Claude Rains |
6.10 | 226.2 | 443.60 | 25 | 84 | 03 / 01 | 98.7 | |
| 31 | Adam's Rib (1949) | Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn |
8.30 | 206.9 | 274.90 | 18 | 87 | 01 / 00 | 98.6 | |
| 32 | Swing Time (1936) | Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
5.40 | 233.4 | 376.30 | 12 | 85 | 02 / 01 | 98.6 | |
| 33 | The Third Man (1949) | Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten |
7.20 | 181.1 | 181.10 | 24 | 90 | 03 / 01 | 98.6 | |
| 34 | Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) | Judy Garland & Directed by Vincent Minnelli |
13.60 | 458.2 | 626.60 | 4 | 83 | 04 / 00 | 98.4 | |
| 35 | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Boris Karloff & Elsa Lanchester |
5.70 | 256.7 | 256.70 | 2 | 85 | 01 / 00 | 98.4 | |
| 36 | Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | Gene Tierney & Vincent Price |
14.20 | 449.6 | 449.60 | 3 | 81 | 04 / 01 | 98.4 | |
| 37 | The Red Shoes (1948) AA Best Picture Nom |
Moira Shearer | 5.80 | 156.0 | 156.00 | 52 | 87 | 05 / 02 | 98.3 | |
| 38 | Citizen Kane (1941) AA Best Picture Nom |
Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten |
3.20 | 123.0 | 160.20 | 76 | 93 | 09 / 01 | 98.1 | |
| 40 | The Lady Eve (1941) | Henry Fonda & Barbara Stanwyck |
4.50 | 173.9 | 173.90 | 36 | 87 | 01 / 00 | 97.4 | |
| 41 | White Heat (1949) | James Cagney & Virginia Mayo |
6.10 | 152.4 | 242.70 | 36 | 91 | 01 / 00 | 96.7 | |
| 41 | The Thin Man (1934) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Powell & Myrna Loy |
2.60 | 123.9 | 204.90 | 29 | 87 | 04 / 00 | 95.8 | |
| 42 | Winchester '73 (1950) | James Stewart & Rock Hudson |
6.40 | 144.4 | 144.40 | 32 | 87 | 00 / 00 | 95.0 | |
| 43 | Out of the Past (1947) | Kirk Douglas & Robert Mitchum |
4.00 | 117.7 | 166.90 | 87 | 88 | 00 / 00 | 93.1 | |
| 44 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Walter Wanger & Kevin McCarthy |
6.00 | 117.6 | 117.60 | 47 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 91.0 | |
| 45 | Duck Soup (1933) | Marx Brothers | 2.10 | 99.9 | 99.90 | 32 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 90.6 | |
| 46 | Metropolis (1927) | Directed by Fritz Lang | 2.30 | 76.0 | 76.00 | 22 | 91 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 47 | Seven Samurai (1954) | Toshirô Mifune & Directed by Akira Kurosawa |
1.90 | 43.5 | 43.50 | 126 | 95 | 02 / 00 | 88.0 | |
| 48 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) | Henry Fonda & Charles Bronson |
5.30 | 43.5 | 43.50 | 60 | 90 | 00 / 00 | 85.4 | |
| 49 | Gun Crazy (1950) | Peggy Cummins & John Dall |
2.40 | 52.9 | 52.90 | 134 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 82.3 | |
| 51 | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Billy Crystal & Directed by Rob Reiner |
4.50 | 14.4 | 14.40 | 115 | 91 | 00 / 00 | 81.2 | |
| 50 | Breathless (1960) | Jean Seberg & Jean Seberg |
1.70 | 26.8 | 118.10 | 109 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 80.2 | |
| 52 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Directed by Vittorio De Sica | 0.30 | 8.1 | 8.10 | 196 | 88 | 01 / 00 | 78.5 |
If you want to buy this book…..here is a link to do just that.
thanks, WoC.
I re-watched Rocky. a 9, not a favorite. my first impression was feel good , one and done. that still stands. the love story is everything. the boxing action good. I will take this over “Raging Bull” and its profanity laced pathos, any day. rocky was Oscar winner for best picture. I request cogerson re publish his top 100 reviewed sports movies. I do not recall a 10 for boxing movies, even million dollar baby was critically flawed.
I am a Stallone hater. I do not think he can act. why is he so good in this? ahhh… he wrote it for himself , he is natural and at ease and just played himself.
cost just over $1,000,000. to make. UMR adj world wide box office is approaching $1,000,000,000. $500,000,000 adj dbo. number one in 1976
I forgot all about this, apologies WoC. When I do watch Rear Window again, hopefully soon, I’ll post a quick review here.
Lisa: What’s he doing? Cleaning house?
Jeff: He’s washing and scrubbing down the bathroom walls.
Stella: Must’ve splattered a lot. Come on, that’s what were all thinkin’. He killed her in there, now he has to clean up those stains before he leaves.
Lisa: Stella… your choice of words!
Stella: Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin’ yet.
happy mothers day to all the mothers and to all who have mothers. happy mothers day WoC.
its like my therapist said” if it’s not one thing it’s a mother”.
I need a fix. i’m hooked. can you reveal next weeks so I can find or record it? please and thank you.
Next one is Rocky (1975) watch by Sunday 5/17.
to WoC, thanks. great sports flick.
you might want to post it in box at top since your following might not check comments.
Oh – the songwriter trivia – the songwriter from the movie – made Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Ross Bagdasarian aka David Seville.