1961 Top Box Office Movies

Finding box office information for movies made before 1980 is not an easy task.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1961 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 30,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1961 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1961.  This page will looks at 106 1961 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.    This only represents about 25% of the movies made in 1961….but should cover the top box office movies.

1961’s West Side Story

 

Our UMR Top 50 of 1961

1961 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 1961 Top Box Office Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
  • Sort 1961 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1961 Top Box Office Movies by stars of the movie
  • Sort 1961 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1961 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 each 1961 Top Box Office Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1961 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1961 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.

1961’s El Cid

 Top earners in 1961 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

My Main Sources

Source 1: Variety – January 10th, 1962 Pages 13 & 58

Source 2: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon

Source 3:  Wikipedia

Source 4:  IMDb.com

Source 5:  BoxOfficeMojo.com


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38 thoughts on “1961 Top Box Office Movies

  1. Hello Bruce.
    I read an article from Variety titled Some Revisions, Jan 8. 1964, page 71, which said that THE COMANCHEROS made $3,500,000 in Domestic rentals. This would make it’s gross $10,010,000
    I believe.

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