ClassicMovieRankings

Got a request to take a statistical look at musicals....we came up with 217 musicals. Tons of stats and hard to find box office. 181 of the movies were made before 1980. http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/top-100-musicals/

Hey Mr. Gorman. A quick look at Brenda Marshall's career.....and I already have 7 of 18 her movies already in my database. A quick look at the other 11 movies look like they will very challenging to come up with. The Current Top 7 Movie (Year) The Sea Hawk (1940) The Constant Nymph (1943) Captain of the Clouds (1942) Whispering Smith (1948) Footsteps in the Dark (1941) Background to Danger (1943) East of the River (1940)

Hey Mr.. Gorman.....thanks for the catch. That error has been fixed. As for Brenda Marshall I will add her to the request list. Over the years I have done a current actor and then a classic actor....thinking I am going to concentrate on the classic ones for awhile. Thanks for the input.

Thank you GregoryPeckFan....you are awesome!

Our newest page. Taking a look at 50 Alan Ladd movies. Just some of the stats here.....23 $100 million (adjusted) dollar box office hits. Six movies that got at least one Oscar nomination. A career box office gross of 5.5 BILLION. Plus lots of other stats and trivia. http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/alan-ladd-movies/

Hey film lover 293....I was not sure if I could include The Cheyenne Social Club...because Gene Kelly only directed and did not appear in the movie. Thanks for the suggestion on There's One Born Every Minute....but I think Taylor was the only AFI legend in that movie.

The other day when I posted my AFI Screen Legends 5 year project. http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/american-film-institute-top-50-screen-legends/ Jakeem said he had identified over 2 dozen movies that starred at least 3 of the AFI legends. I can only come up with 19.....which ones am I missing? I did not count some of the all-star studio movies...where the stars pretty much played themselves. Philadelphia Story, The (1940) Key Largo (1948) How the West Was Won (1963) Cheyenne Social Club, The (1970) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Sabrina (1954) Unforgiven, The (1960) In Harm's Way (1965) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Now and Forever (1934) Dancing Lady (1933) On the Beach (1959) Wife vs Secretary (1936) Boom Town (1940) Longest Day, The (1962) Mogambo (1953) Monkey Business (1952) Fort Apache (1948) Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (1952) Tales of Manhatten (1942)

Hey Princess of Tap.....I know many people like The Rules of the Game....when I did a quick check on the Sight Sound list La Règle Du Jeu popped up....and I did not know that was French for Rules of the Game. Feel pretty dumb...especially since it turns out that I have seen La Règle Du Jeu. Hey Lawrence A....glad you are a fan of La Règle Du Jeu...I still like the AFI list more than the Sight and Sound list. Hey GregoryPeckfan.....will do.....I know your Oscar boycott is about to start....not thinking any new stuff will happen tomorrow...we are having our 16th Annual Oscar party tomorrow night....so I am not seeing much time for the internet myself. Hey Mr. Gorman.....I love your comment....I would like to include on my page on my website..if that is ok with you. I will have to check some of the movies you mentioned....you make them sound interesting for sure. I agree with you 100% about Easy Rider. I saw Night To Remember just last year...it made my Top 10 for the year....and I watched over 600 movies in 2015. Far outshines Titanic. Glad you itching hands were ready to go.

Hey Fedya....I always shake my head when I see the latest Sight and Sound list come out. They seem to go out of there way to include movies that most people have never heard of.....it is like they are saying they are smarter than everbody else because they think La Règle Du Jeu is one of the greatest movies ever made. I am a huge fan of movies....but I have never even heard of it before I looked up their list while typing this comment.

Hey misswonderly3.....point taken. The way I set up the massive table is way that you can look at these all-time greats in different ways. The AFI Top 5: #1 Citizen Kane #2 The Godfather #3 Casablanca #4 Raging Bull #5 Singin' In The Rain By Box Office Results: #1 Gone With The Wind #2 Star Wars #3 Sound of Music #4 ET #5 Titanic By Critic and Audience Reviews: #1 The Godfather #2 Casablanca #3 Schlinder's List #4 Rear Window #5 Godfather 2 By Oscar Awards: #1 Titanic #2 Ben-Hur #3 West Side Story #4 Tied Gone With The Wind, Cabaret & On The Waterfront By My UMR Score: #1 The Godfather #2 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest #3 Lawrence of Arabia #4 Schindler's List #5 Godfather 2 My Personal Top 5: #1 The Bridge on the River Kwai #2 Raiders of the Lost Ark #3 To Kill a Mockingbird #4 The Philadelphia Story #5 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid There is no right answer or wrong answer...it is just a different way to look at these great movies. Thanks for the feedback....it is greatly appreciated.....PS. It is not coming across rude....just glad you checked out my site. I have not done a page on Mary Astor....but one is coming soon.

Hey misswonderly3....statistically One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest has it all.....it was a monster hit...87th biggest hit of all-time when looking at adjusted grosses.....got great reviews from critics.....loved by audiences....and then it became the 2nd movie ever to win all the big Oscars...joining It Happened One Night. Not many movies can make that claim. Actually of the 26,000 movies in my database that look at those three categories....only the Godfather has better overall numbers.

Hey GregoryPeck fan....thanks for sharing the link....just got through going through the table..this is what I thought was the most interesting stuff. On the actor side: James Stewart, Robert DeNiro and Harrison Ford lead the way with 5 movies on the Top 100. Dustin Hoffman, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart and Robert Duvall have 4 movies. On the actress side: Katharine Hepburn leads the way with 3 movies in the Top 100. Meryl Streep, Vivien Leigh, Marilyn Monroe, Jodie Foster, Grace Kelly and Natalie Wood have 2 movies. On the director side: Steven Spielberg leads the way with 5 movies in the Top 100. Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock have 4 movies . The average adjusted domestic box office gross for the Top 100 AFI movies is $368.60 million. 73 of the AFI Top 100 movies were nominated for a Best Picture Oscar® nomination. 28 of the AFI Top Movies won the Best Picture Oscar®. Overall the AFI Top 100 movies earned 648 Oscar® nominations…winning 265 Oscar®. When looking at the lowest scoring movies according to critics and audiences there are a few surprises. Nashville was the worst reviewed AFI Top 100 movie (not too surprising) but Titanic as the 2nd worst movie and Forrest Gump as the 3rd worst movie by critics and audiences. The average critic/audience rating is 88.50%….according to RottenTomatoes.com…..60% is the gold standard for a good movie.

Hey sapphiere...I agree with you...it is a shame. I would have liked to see that Stanwyck one.

Hey film lover 293.....Sextette is brutal to watch....Timothy Dalton is the male lead....he marries Mae West at the beginning of the movie....and spends the entire movie trying to consummate the marriage....but all of West's exs (Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr) keep showing up and causing chaos. West either near 80 or older when she played this sex goddess...and somehow it did not work. As for The Naked Zoo....one of Rita's Hayworth's last movies...I think she made one more...I have not seen all of it...but the parts I saw were sad and bad. Hey jamesjazzguitar.....Flynn was never considered a great actor (think Orlando Bloom today) but he appeared in lots of popular movies...I think there list is like the NCAA baseketball tournament....some are just lucky to be in the tournament....while there are truly only 7 or 8 teams that have a serious chance to win it all. Hey gregorypeckfan....thanks for the support....you are awesome. Hey if the AFI list and my pages help shed some light on some forgotten greats....then that makes me very happy. Yesterday was the best day ever for my website....and today is pretty good too. Those screen legends are pulling in some views.

And the worst of the 2,267 movies listed on my AFI Top 50 pages 2267th Wicked Stepmother - Bette Davis 2266th Trog - Joan Crawford 2265th Sextette - Mae West 2264th City on Fire - Henry Fonda & Ava Gardner 2263rd The Naked Zoo - Rita Hayworth

I found this interesting. Of the 2,267 movies ranked this was the Top 10. #1 The Godfather - Marlon Brando #2 Casablanca - Bogart & Bergman #3 Gone With The Wind - Gable & Leigh #4 Bridge on the River Kwai - William Holden #5 Rebecca - Laurence Olivier #6 My Fair Lady - Audrey Hepburn #7 Mutiny on the Bounty - Clark Gable #8 Wings - Gary Cooper #9 Gentleman's Agreement - Gregory Peck #10 On The Waterfront - Marlon Brando

Hey GregoryPeckFan....pretty sure when you did a new Cary Grant comment...you are at 100%. So glad I decided to move the comments when I moved website pages. I find them very interesting to read as time passes by. AFI has lots of great page ideas.....I think I am going to knock some of the requests....since they seem to be backing up on me. This has been a very good day for my website...closing in on the best day ever...and still have almost 6 hours left. About to cross the 10,000 hit/impression mark....my best day ever was right above 11,000 hits. As for your contribution...I know of no one better to come up with some facts on Mr. Peck.

Hey TomJH....I agree with you about Bacall....but it is hard to compare her to Power, Crosby, Hope and Flynn....but if you compare her to Olivia de Havilland it is no contest....Bacall has the Bogart movies.....but by the 1960s she was comfortable in supporting roles. I do agree with last part of the your comment 100%. FYI...I have pages on all 4 actors you mentioned....all of them were beasts at the box office. Hey Lawrence....Dean is on the list...and is actually all the way up in 18th spot....I give him credit for 3 outstanding movies...but seems there would be other more deserving people for the list. That being said...his was the easiest page to do....it did not take long to research 3 movies.

Hey GGGGerald....good points....lists make good bar talk.....or in this era internet talk. Hey Lawrence A.....Mae West was a legend....but in her case the legend does not look as good when you shine a light on it. She had 3 good movies...and only made 12 movies.

Hey NipkowDis.....John Wayne was the man....my Wayne page has been one of my more popular webpages on all three of my websites. Hey jamesjazzguitar.....Overall I liked the list...I agree that actor list is better than the actress.....I like Bacall and Gardner.....but the fact that Maureen O'Hara and especially Olivia de Havilland did not make the list seemed very wrong.

Hey Gregory Peck Fan....pretty sure you have a comment on all 50 pages. Your support has been awesome. Hard to believe five years has passed.

Probably 80% of them? Gotta think Bogart, A. Hepburn, K. Hepburn, J. Cagney, C. Grant, C. Gable, D. Day, S.Tracy, R. Hayworth, C. Lombard, B. Lancaster, K. Douglas, G.Kelly, O. Welles, J. Crawford, B. Davis, G. Peck, J. Wayne, S.Temple had to have been given that honor.

It took over 5 years....but I have finally finished taking a statistical look at all 50 AFI Screen Legends. 2,267 movies with hard to find box office grosses, reviews and award recognition. 100% guarantee or your money back...that you will find something interesting in this page. http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/american-film-institute-top-50-screen-legends/

Love Actually, Father Goose & Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

How about Dana Andrews in The Frozen Dead (1966) or Crack In The World (1965)....he pretty much destroyed the planet in the second movie.