1948 Top Grossing Movies

This movie page looks at 1948 Top Grossing Movies Finding box office information for movies made in the 1930s and 1940s is extremely difficult.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1948 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 33,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1948 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1948.  Obviously many movies made in 1947 earned box office dollars in 1948.  On the other side many movies made in 1948 made money in 1949 and later.  This page will looks at 139 1948 Top Box Office Movies.  The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

The following massive table only includes the movies made in 1948 that are in our database.  Since we are constantly adding new movies to our database….this page will quickly become obsolete.  We will try and update this page on a regular basis.

John Wayne & Montgomery Clift in 1948’s Red River

Our UMR Top 50 of 1948

1948 Top Box Office 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 1948 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1948 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
  • Sort 1948 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1948 Top Box Office 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 1948 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1948 Top Box Office Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart in 1948’s Key Largo

1948 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide

Source 1: Eddie Mannix MGM Ledgers

Source 2: C.J. Tevlin RKO Ledgers

Source 3: Variety Magazines –

Source 4: Year In Review Variety Editions

Source 5: Grand Design: Hollywood As A Modern Business Enterprise 1930-1942 by Tino Balio

Source 6: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon

Source 7:  Wikipedia

Source 8:  IMDb.com

Source 9:  “Revenue sharing and the coming of sound” by H. Mark Glancy

Source 10: Hollywood Power Stats by Christopher Reynolds


 

31 thoughts on “1948 Top Grossing Movies

  1. H Mr. Cogerson,

    Please ignore my original 1948 request in the request area and do this one instead.

    typo
    1948 Hollow Truimph (1948)
    1948 Hollow Triumph

    1948 Every Girl Should Get Married (1948)
    1948 Every Girl Should Be Married

    1948 April Showers 1,750,000 (US rentals Wikipedia-source-“Top Grossers of 1948”, Variety 5 January 1949 p 46

    1948 The Swordsman $1.7 million (US rentals Wikipedia-source-“Top Grossers of 1948″, Variety 5 January 1949 p 46

    1948 The Secret Land $576,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger

    1948 Western Heritage $265,000 Wikipedia-source-Tim Holt and the B Western”

    Thx

    Mike

    1. Hey Mike…fixed the spelling on the first two titles (so disappointed in myself that I had a Cary Grant movie wrong….granted it is far from one of my favorites). Added in the four movies you suggested….they are in 83rd, 107th, 144th and 176th place. Thanks for the suggestions.

        1. Hey Mike….fixed, updated and rankings re-shuffled…wow 183 movies here as well….that is a strange coincedence when looking at my previous comment

  2. “Escape” starred Rex Harrison and Peggy Cummins. 20th
    “The Tender Years” starred Joe E. Brown. Fox
    “The Winslow Boy” starred Robert Donat and Cedric Hardwicke. London Films
    “A Woman’s Vengeance” starred Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth. Universal
    “The Big Punch” starred Wayne Morris and Gordon Mac Rae. Warner Bros.
    “River Lady” and “Black Bart” both starred Yvonne de Carlo and Dan Duryea. Universal
    “Fighting Father Dunne” was a Pat O’Brien vehicle. RKO
    “Race Street” featured George Raft and William Bendix. RKO
    “Big City” starred Margaret O’Brien and Robert Preston. MGM
    “Whiplash” starred Dane Clark and Alexis Smith. Warner Bros.
    “If You Knew Susie” paired Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis. RKO
    “You Were Meant for Me” had Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey. 20th
    “Fighter Squadron” featured Edmond O’Brien and Robert Stack. Warner Bros.
    “Mystery in Mexico” starred William Lundigan and Jacquline White. RKO
    “Miss Tatlock’s Millions” paired John Lund and Wanda Hendrix. Paramount

    1. Hey Anonymous….thanks for all the suggestions….now all 172 movies have people listed in that column….I have also added in the worldwide table as well. Thanks for all of the input…it is greatly appreciated.

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