This movie page looks at 1950 Top Box Office Movies. Finding box office information for movies made in the 1940s and 1950s is extremely difficult. For somebody looking for box office information on 1950 it is very very frustrating. Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies. So we figured we would show all the 1950 movies in our database.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1950. Obviously many movies made in 1949 earned box office dollars in 1950. On the other side many movies made in 1950 made money in 1951 and later. This page will looks at 174 1950 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 1950 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. *The box office totals for Cinderella include all of the re-releases it has had over the years.
Our UMR Top 50 of 1950
1950 Top Box Office Movies Can Be Ranked 7 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort 1950 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort 1950 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort 1950 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions).
- Sort 1950 Top Box Office Movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort 1950 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 1950 Top Box Office Movies received.
- Sort 1950 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.
1950 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide
My Main Sources
Source 1: Eddie Mannix MGM Ledgers
Source 2: C.J. Tevlin RKO Ledgers
Source 3: William Schaefer Warner Brothers Ledgers
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
I love the new Dynamic page.
I have seen 52 of these movies. Favourites include:
Sunset Blvd.
Night and the City
Panic in the Streets
All About Eve
D.O.A.
Winchester ’73
Champagne For Caesar
Captain Horation Hornblower
Harvey
Born Yesterday
The Asphalt Jungle
Hey Flora….glad you like how the new dynamic tables look….hopefully we will keep finding ways to make it more visually appealing….just last night we found a % for the critic audience button.
Your 52 movies watched tops me and Steve but is behind Dan’s massive total. I have seen all of them except for Champagne for Caesar which I have not even heard of. I will have to check that one out. Thanks for checking out our latest yearly review page.
You can find Champagne For Caesar on Youtube.
Hey Flora…thanks for that information…it is greatly appreciated…I will check it out soon.
These are the 151 1950 movies I’ve seen since December 1992 when I hit film 8000 that I’ve seen. Pictures like The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve were seen pre 1992 and who knows what I’ve seen from this year if any till I update my listings early next year. So these were all seen December 1992 through December 2016. Key – title, studio, stars when I used to list them, date seen and source (TV channel, tape or DVD).
ADMIRAL WAS A LADY 1950 UA WANDA HENDRIX EDMOND O’BRIEN 2/18 2013 DVD
AMBUSH 1950 MGM ROBERT TAYLOR JOHN HODIAK 8/11 1994 TNT
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN 1950 MGM BETTY HUTTON HOWARD KEEL 12/28 2004 TCM
ARIZONA COWBOY 1950 REP 9/2 2015 MOVIES
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY 1950 RKO CHARLES MCGRAW ROBERT STERLING 11/29 1992 AMC
BACKFIRE 1950 WB VIRGINIA MAYO GORDON MACRAE 11/19 2000 MYST
BARRICADE 1950 WB DANE CLARK RAYMOND MASSEY 6/6 2000 WEST
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN 1950 COL MARK STEVENS EDMOND O’BRIEN 5/2 2012 ANT
BLACK ROSE 1950 FOX TYRONE POWER ORSON WELLES 9/23 1996 AMC
BLACKJACK KETCHUM, DESPERADO 1950 COL HOWARD DUFF 2/2 1993 TNT
BLAZING SUN 1950 COL GENE AUTRY 8/7 2003 WEST
BLUE LAMP (U.K.) 1950 EL JACK WARNER JIMMY HANLEY 4/1 1995 A & E
BORDER TREASURE 1950 RKO TIM HOLT 12/17 1992 AMC
BORDERLINE 1950 UNI CLAIRE TREVOR FRED MACMURRAY 3/27 1994 55
BREAKING POINT 1950 WB JOHN GARFIELD PATRICIA NEAL 11/12 1999 MMAX
BRIGHT LEAF 1950 WB GARY COOPER LAUREN BACALL 1/20 1993 TNT
BROKEN ARROW 1950 FOX JAMES STEWART JEFF CHANDLER 1/29 1996 DIS
BUCKAROO SHERIFF OF TEXAS 1950 REP XXX XXX 5/11 2000 WEST
CALIFORNIA PASSAGE 1950 REP FORREST TUCKER ADELE MARA 5/28 2000 WEST
CAPTIVE GIRL 1950 COL JOHNNY WEISSMULLER BUSTER CRABBE 10/26 1997 AMC
CAPTURE, THE 1950 RKO LEW AYRES TERESA WRIGHT 2/1 2007 DVD
CARIBOO TRAIL 1950 FOX RANDOLPH SCOTT BILL WILLIAMS 7/1 1996 55
CHAIN GANG 1950 COL XXX XXX 3/6 2011 TCM
CODY OF THE PONY EXPRESS 1950 COL JOCK MAHONEY 12/17 2011 DVD (serial)
COLORADO RANGER 1950 LIP 8/1 2015 DVD
COLT. 45 1950 WB RANDOLPH SCOTT RUTH ROMAN 3/28 1998 TNT
CONVICTED 1950 COL GLENN FORD BRODERICK CRAWFORD 10/4 2002 MYST
COW TOWN 1950 COL GENE AUTRY 3/7 2003 WEST
CROOKED RIVER 1950 LIP 7/12 2015 DVD
DALLAS 1950 WB GARY COOPER RUTH ROMAN 8/26 2012 TCM
DALTONS’ WOMEN 1950 WESTERN ADV. TOM NEAL JACK HOLT 5/8 2014 DVD
DAMNED DON’T CRY 1950 WB JOAN CRAWFORD DAVID BRIAN 6/10 1997 AMC
DESERT HAWK 1950 UNI RICHARD GREENE YVONNE DE CARLO 5/14 1995 AMC
DESPERADOES OF THE WEST 1950 REP 1/5 1993 TAPE
DESTINATION MOON 1950 EL JOHN ARCHER 12/8 1994 TBS
DESTINATION MURDER 1950 RKO HURD HATFIELD 1/25 1993 AMC
DIAL 1119 1950 MGM MARSHALL THOMPSON VIRGINIA FIELD 6/3 2003 TCM
DUCHESS OF IDAHO 1950 MGM ESTHER WILLIAMS VAN JOHNSON 9/16 1999 TCM
DYNAMITE PASS 1950 RKO TIM HOLT 6/14 1993 AMC
EDGE OF DOOM 1950 RKO DANA ANDREWS FARLEY GRANGER 8/8 2007 TCM
ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL (U.K.) 1950 BRITISH LION DAVID NIVEN MARGARET LEIGHTON 6/11 1995 13
FAST ON THE DRAW 1950 LIP 12/25 2015 DVD
FATHER IS A BACHELOR 1950 COL WILLIAM HOLDEN COLEEN GRAY 1/6 2007 TCM
FATHER MAKES GOOD 1950 MONO XXX XXX 8/22 1993 TAPE
FATHER’S WILD GAME 1950 MONO XXX XXX 8/17 1995 TAPE
FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (IT.) 1950 JOSEPH BURSTYN XXX XXX 9/28 2009 TCM
FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE 1950 FOX CLIFTON WEBB JOAN BENNETT 11/16 2000 FXM
FRENCHIE 1950 UNI SHELLEY WINTERS JOEL MCCREA 5/31 2012 TCM
FULLER BRUSH GIRL 1950 COL LUCILLE BALL EDDIE ALBERT 4/20 2009 TCM
GOLDEN SALAMANDER (U.K.) 1950 EL TREVOR HOWARD ANOUK AIMEE 8/24 2008 TCM
GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY 1950 WB DAVID BRIAN MARJORIE REYNOLDS 7/31 2012 TCM
GREAT RUPERT 1950 EL JIMMY DURANTE TOM DRAKE 12/25 2006 11
GROUNDS FOR MARRIAGE 1950 MGM VAN JOHNSON KATHRYN GRAYSON 9/6 1998 TCM
GUNMAN IN THE STREETS (FR.) 1950 1/8 2014 TCM
GUNMEN OF ABILENE 1950 REP ALLAN LANE 2/29 2000 WEST
HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE (U.K.) 1950 PACEMAKER ALASTAIR SIM MARGARET RUTHERFORD 9/10 1995 BRAVO
HARRIET CRAIG 1950 COL JOAN CRAWFORD WENDELL COREY 10/25 1993 TNT
HE’S A COCKEYED WONDER 1950 COL MICKEY ROONEY TERRY MOORE 9/23 2010 TCM
HILLS OF OKLAHOMA 1950 REP REX ALLEN ELISABETH FRASER 1/14 2004 WEST
HOEDOWN 1950 COL XXX XXX 4/21 2004 WEST
HOSTILE COUNTRY 1950 LIPPERT 3/8 2016 DVD
HUNT THE MAN DOWN 1950 RKO GIG YOUNG LYNNE ROBERTS 8/29 1994 AMC
I SHOT BILLY THE KID 1950 LIP 5/1 2015 TCM
INDIAN TERRITORY 1950 COL GENE AUTRY 3/9 2003 WEST
IT’S A SMALL WORLD 1950 EL PAUL DALE LORRAINE MILLER 11/16 2014 TCM
KEY TO THE CITY 1950 MGM CLARK GABLE LORETTA YOUNG 9/19 1998 TCM
KID FROM TEXAS 1950 UNI AUDIE MURPHY GALE STORM 6/4 1994 AMC
KILLER SHARK 1950 MONO RODDY MCDOWELL LAURETTE LUEZ 6/2 2012 TCM
KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK 1950 COL EVELYN KEYES CHARLES KORVIN 5/10 2004 MYST
LA MARCA DEL ZORILLA (MEX.) 1950 ASFILMS SD 1/24 2013 DVD
LADY WITHOUT A PASSPORT 1950 MGM HEDY LAMARR JOHN HODIAK 6/9 2008 TCM
LAST OF THE BUCCANEERS 1950 COL PAUL HENREID JACK OAKIE 1/10 2008 TCM
LIFE OF HER OWN 1950 MGM RAY MILLAND LANA TURNER 11/20 1998 TCM
LIGHTNING GUNS 1950 COL 7/1 2014 WEST
MADNESS OF THE HEART (U.K.) 1950 UNI MARGARET LOCKWOOD MAXWELL REED 10/22 2013 TCM
MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF 1950 FOX LEE J. COBB JANE WYATT 3/14 2007 DVD
MARK OF THE GORILLA 1950 COL JOHNNY WEISSMULLER 11/2 1997 AMC
MARSHAL OF HELDORADO 1950 LIP 6/17 2015 DVD
MINIVER STORY 1950 MGM GREER GARSON WALTER PIDGEON 10/2 1993 TNT
MOTHER DIDN’T TELL ME 1950 FOX DOROTHY MCGUIRE WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 5/24 2001 FXM
MRS. O’MALLEY AND MR. MALONE 1950 MGM XXX XXX 10/3 1998 TCM
MULE TRAIN 1950 COL GENE AUTRY 4/3 2003 WEST
MYSTERY STREET 1950 MGM RICARDO MONTALBAN SALLY FORREST 3/21 1999 TCM
NO MAN OF HER OWN 1950 PAR BARBARA STANWYCK JOHN LUND 7/13 1994 AMC
NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH (U.K.) 1950 RKO 10/8 2012 TCM
NO SAD SONGS FOR ME 1950 COL MARGARET SULLAVAN WENDELL COREY 12/27 2007 TCM
NORTH OF THE GREAT DIVIDE 1950 REP ROY ROGERS PENNY EDWARDS 4/5 2000 WEST
ON THE ISLE OF SAMOA 1950 COL JON HALL SUSAN CABOT 3/21 2007 TCM
OUTLAW GOLD 1950 MONO JOHNNY MACK BROWN 8/5 2010 DVD
OUTRAGE 1950 RKO MALA POWERS HAL MARCH 7/8 2002 TCM
OVER THE BORDER 1950 MONO JOHNNY MACK BROWN 5/11 2010 DVD
PERFECT STRANGERS 1950 WB GINGER ROGERS DENNIS MORGAN 2/10 2001 LOVE
PETTY GIRL 1950 COL ROBERT CUMMINGS JOAN CAULFIELD 6/13 1993 TNT
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEAS 1950 COL BUSTER CRABBE 2/28 1993 TAPE (serial)
PLEASE BELIEVE ME 1950 MGM DEBORAH KERR ROBERT WALKER 10/4 1998 TCM
PRETTY BABY 1950 WB DENNIS MORGAN BETSY DRAKE 9/4 2001 LOVE
PYGMY ISLAND 1950 COL JOHNNY WEISMULLER 11/9 1997 AMC
QUICKSAND 1950 UA MICKEY ROONEY 3/5 1995 21
RASHOMON (JAP.) 1950 RKO TOSHIRO MIFUNE 6/3 1997 BRAVO
REFORMER AND THE REDHEAD 1950 MGM JUNE ALLYSON DICK POWELL 4/13 2000 TCM
RIDER FROM TUCSON 1950 RKO TIM HOLT 1/11 1993 AMC
RIDING HIGH 1950 PAR BING CROSBY COLEEN GRAY 12/26 1994 AMC
RIGHT CROSS 1950 MGM JUNE ALLYSON DICK POWELL 10/29 1999 TCM
ROUGH RIDERS OF DURANGO 1950 REP ALLAN LANE 7/5 2000 WEST
RUSTLERS ON HORSEBACK 1950 REP ALLAN LANE 3/26 2000 WEST
SADDLE TRAMP 1950 UNI JOEL MCCREA WANDA HENDRIX 11/23 2011 WEST
SALT LAKE RAIDERS 1950 REP ALLAN LANE EDDY WALLER 8/20 2003 WEST
SAVAGE HORDE 1950 REP BILL ELLIOTT ADRIAN BOOTH 3/15 2000 WEST
SECOND FACE 1950 EL 4/8 2016 TCM
SECRET FURY 1950 RKO CLAUDETTE COLBERT ROBERT RYAN 2/12 2000 TCM
SHADOW ON THE WALL 1950 MGM GIGI PERREAU ANN SOTHERN 8/3 1998 TCM
SHOWDOWN 1950 REP BILL ELLIOTT 11/8 2000 WEST
SIDE STREET 1950 MGM FARLEY GRANGER CATHY O’DONNELL 8/14 1999 TCM
SIERRA 1950 UNI WANDA HENDRIX AUDIE MURPHY 11/19 1995 AMC
SINBAD EL MAREADO (MEX.) 1950 MIERY BROOKS 4/10 2013 DVD
SINGING GUNS 1950 REP ELLA RAINES 8/27 1995 TAPE
SO YOUNG SO BAD 1950 UA PAUL HENRIED ANNE FRANCIS 1/17 2004 TCM
SOUTH OF DEATH VALLEY 1950 COL CHARLES STARRETT 8/12 2002 WEST
SOUTH SEA SINNER 1950 UNI MACDONALD CAREY SHELLEY WINTERS 1/15 1996 AMC
SQUARE DANCE KATY 1950 MONO SHEILA RYAN 11/19 1994 TAPE
STAGE FRIGHT 1950 WB JANE WYMAN MARLENE DIETRICH 5/13 1997 AMC
STARS IN MY CROWN 1950 MGM JOEL MCCREA ELLEN DREW 2/11 2000 TCM
STORM OVER WYOMING 1950 RKO TIM HOLT 4/16 1994 AMC
STREETS OF GHOST TOWN 1950 COL CHARLES STARRETT 1/17 1993 TNT
STROMBOLI (IT.) 1950 RKO INGRID BERGMAN 6/15 2004 TCM
TATTOOED STRANGER 1950 RKO XXX XXX 7/31 1999 TCM
TEXAN MEETS CALAMITY JANE 1950 COL JAMES ELLISON EVELYN ANKERS 4/5 2005 WEST
THE NEVADAN 1950 COL RANDOLPH SCOTT DOROTHY MALONE 12/20 1992 TNT
THE SUNDOWNERS 1950 EL ROBERT PRESTON ROBERT STERLING 6/21 1994 55
THIS SIDE OF THE LAW 1950 WB 3/7 2012 TCM
TO PLEASE A LADY 1950 MGM CLARK GABLE BARBARA STANWYCK 11/13 1998 TCM
TORCH, THE 1950 EL 10/13 2012 DVD
TRAIL OF ROBIN HOOD 1950 REP ROY ROGERS PENNY EDWARDS 4/10 1997 AMC
TRAIL OF THE RUSTLERS 1950 COL CHARLES STARRETT 11/4 2004 WEST
TRIGGER JR. 1950 REP ROY ROGERS DALE EVANS 3/2 1997 AMC
TRIPOLI 1950 PAR MAUREEN O’HARA JOHN PAYNE 2/8 1994 AMC
TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE 1950 MGM JANE POWELL RICARDO MONTALBAN 8/25 1998 TCM
UNDER MEXICALI STARS 1950 REP XXX XXX 7/30 2011 TCM
UNDERWORLD STORY 1950 UA DAN DURYEA HERBERT MARSHALL 7/21 2000 MYST
VIGILANTE HIDEOUT 1950 REP ALLAN LANE 8/13 2003 WEST
WALK SOFTLY STRANGER 1950 RKO JOSEPH COTTEN ALIDA VALLI 10/11 1993 AMC
WATERFRONT (U.K.) 1950 GFD ROBERT NEWTON RICHARD BURTON 8/10 1996 55
WEST OF THE BRAZOS 1950 LIP 8/17 2016 DVD
WEST OF WYOMING 1950 MONO JOHNNY MACK BROWN 7/8 2010 DVD
WEST POINT STORY 1950 WB JAMES CAGNEY VIRGINIA MAYO 7/17 1998 AMC
WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME 1950 FOX DAN DAILEY CORINNE CALVET 8/7 1999 AMC
WHIRLPOOL 1950 FOX GENE TIERNEY RICHARD CONTE 3/22 2000 FXM
WILD HEART 1950 RKO JENNIFER JONES 7/13 1995 AMC
WOMAN ON THE RUN 1950 UNI ANN SHERIDAN DENNIS O’KEEFE 3/19 2007 DVD
WYOMING MAIL 1950 UNI STEPHEN MCNALLY ALEXIS SMITH 9/15 1994 AMC
YELLOW CAB MAN 1950 MGM RED SKELTON GLORIA DE HAVEN 7/20 1993 TNT
Hey Dan….as always your movie watched lists are truly impressive. 151 movies is easily the most of people that have shared their tallies. Lots of great movies on this list….thanks for sharing.
Hi Bruce,
Yeah, your dynamic webpage it’s a great idea. And I like the new presentation of the table. Congratulation to WoC.
1950 was a good year. My favorites are Winchester 73, Eve, Rio Grande, King Solomon’s mines, Sunset Bvd and Asphalt Jungle (I love this film). I’ve seen 21 films of the list.
Wait 1951 impaciently.
Hi Bruce, good to see you back on board.
Not sure if I should comment now or wait till it’s finished. I see boxes with the word Mistake on them.
Looking at the chart my suggestion would be to make the boxes containing the title of the movie bigger so we could see the film titles more clearly.
The Box Office Rank by Year box is too big for the 2 or 3 numbers they would contain, it’s bigger than the film title box. Not sure how useful that chart is, you could simply get rid of it and add a comment at the bottom mentioning what the top 5 or top 10 box office films of the year were.
Be back later to see how it’s going. Good luck!
Hey Steve….WoC has read your comment and included some changes…what do you think now? Your feedback is greatly appreciated….as we strive to make these pages easy to read. The bad news is we lost the “Rank” column the older table and the “Search” button is not very cooperative. On the good side is it is dynamic….we no longer have issues with people with ” ‘ ” in their names like Maureen O’Hara and Pat O’Brien.
As for this page…you get an early appearance by some guy named Charlton Heston. Your return feedback is eagerly antcipated.
Bruce, Debbie, it looks great! Much more readable, a clean interface, I like it a lot.
The titles stick it out more, as they should and I like the highlighted UMR links to the actors from each film, adds a nice bit of a colour to the chart. Less clutter now. You can figure out the box office rank of each film by sorting the box office gross, no need for a separate column.
I’ve seen 32 of the 174 films listed, less than I thought. Favorites include – All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Cinderella, Destination Moon, King Solomons Mines, Rio Grande, Treasure Island and Winchester 73.
Looking at my files I have 60 films from 1950 in my collection, so I may have seen more from this list and can’t remember. Some are missing from the chart.
All About Eve tops the charts followed by Sunset Boulevard, must have been hard choosing one of those two at the 1951 Oscars.
Cinderella was a big money maker for Disney.
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
All About Eve (2-disc sp.ed)
Ambush
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Annie Get Your Gun
Asphalt Jungle ,The
At War With the Army
Baron of Arizona ,The
Black Rose ,The
Born to be Bad
Born Yesterday
Branded
Broken Arrow
Chain Lightning
Cinderella (2-disc sp.ed)
Colt. 45
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dallas
Dark City
Destination Moon
Devil’s Doorway
DOA
Fancy Pants
Flame and the Arrow ,The
Furies ,The
Gun Crazy
Gunfighter ,The
Halls of Montezuma
Harvey
In a Lonely Place
Kansas Raiders
King Solomon’s Mines
Let’s Dance
My Blue Heaven
My Friend Irma Goes West
Mystery Street
Night and the City
Panic in the Streets
Rio Grande
Rocketship X-M
Rocky Mountain
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Side Street
Sierra
Stage Fright
Summer Stock
Sunset Boulevard (Coll.Ed)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Tea for Two
Three Little Words
Ticket to Tomahawk ,A
To Please a Lady
Treasure Island
Two Flags West
Wagon Master
West Point Story ,The
Where Danger Lives
Winchester 73
Wooden Horse ,The
zz-Japan – Rashomon
Kudos on the dynamic page, the shape of things to come. Looking forward to 1951.
A big vote up!
Hey Steve
1. Glad you like this version better.
2. One of the big things missing from this table that the older table had was the “rank” column which automatically appeared on the older table.
3. The “too wide” column will be a probably on pages that we do not have many worldwide box office numbers on….for example…we have a https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/paul-newman-movies/ with that extra wide column.
4. I am sure that in the future this current table will look way out of line….as we keep making changes.
5. I have seen 26 of these movies….so I am not too far behind your tally of 32.
6. I have seen most of the famous ones you listed…I was actually just reading about about Destination Moon….and how the special effects were ground breaking in that one…I will have to check that one out in the near future.
7. I fixed you missing “A”s.
8. Once again thanks for the feedback….it is greatly appreciated.
Well this is the first brand new “Dynamic” webpage. Lots of tiny issues making this a slow process….but we are taking baby steps now.