This movie page looks at 1927 Movies. Finding box office information for movies made in the 1920s and 1930s is extremely difficult. For somebody looking for box office information on 1927, 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 1927 movies in our database.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1927. Obviously many movies made in 1926 earned box office dollars in 1927. On the other side, many movies made in 1927 made money in 1928 and later. This page looks at over 80 1927 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. We will update this page on a regular basis.
Our UMR Top 50 of 1927
1928 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 any way you want.
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- Sort 1927 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 1927 Movies received.
- Sort 1927 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.
The Devil Dancer 1927 was one of 3 films nominated for George Barnes for Best Cinematography in the 1927/28 Oscar’s (1st Academy Awards)
Hey Sidney. Sadly, I do not have any box office information on The Devil Dancer. One day I am headed to Minnesota to go to the United Artists archive library that is supposed to have financial information on the UA movies. Maybe I will be able to unlock that one in the future. Sadly box office information for the 1920s is very difficult to find.
The Devil Dancer $357,350.00 Gilda Gray Clive Brook 1927
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See 1928 comment on The Dove and Tempest for an oscar win/nomination for William Cameron Menzies Best Art Direction
Both films missing across 27 and 28.
PART 12 OF 12
The Iron Horse(1924) $775.00 Madge Bellamy George O’Brien
Flying Luck $750.00 Jean Arthur Monty Banks
Going the Limit $750.00 Ruth Dwyer Ashton Dearholt
Temptations of Shop Girl $750.00 Betty Compson Armand Kaliz
The Princess on Broadway $750.00 Pauline Garon Johnnie Walker
The Trunk Mystery $750.00 Alice Calhoun Charles Hutchison
Through Thick and Thin $750.00 Ethel Shannon William Fairbanks
Wheel of Destiny $750.00 Georgia Hale Forrest Stanley
A Bowery Cinderella $700.00 Gladys Hulette Pat O’Malley
Trainer and Temptress $625.00 Juliette Compton James Knight
The Lost World(1925) $600.00 Bessie Love Lewis Stone
Exchange of Wives(1925) $550.00 Eleanor Boardman Lew Cody
The Millionaire $550.00 Grace Smith Laurence Criner
Girl of Gay Paree $500.00 Barbara Bedford Lowell Sherman
Lightnin'(1925) $450.00 Madge Bellamy Jay Hunt
Borrowed Finery(1925) $433.00 Louise Lorraine Ward Crane
Morals for Men(1925) $433.00 Agnes Ayres Conway Tearle
The Triflers(1924) $433.00 Mae Busch Elliott Dexter
Nomads of the North(1920) $375.00 Betty Blythe Lon Chaney
The Small Bachelor $300.00 Barbara Kent George Beranger
Sporting Life(1925) $281.00 Marian Nixon Bert Lytell
The Splendid Road(1925) $260.00 Anna Q. Nilsson Robert Frazer
The Golden Snare(1921) $250.00 Ruth Renick Lewis Stone
His Supreme Moment(1925) $217.00 Blanche Sweet Ronald Colman
Pitfalls of Passion $200.00 Prudence Sutton Larry O’Dell
Princess from Hoboken $167.00 Blanche Mehaffey Edmund Burns
Winds of Chance(1925) $167.00 Anna Q. Nilsson Ben Lyon
Ridin’ the Wind(1925) $158.00 Jacqueline Gadsdon Fred Thomson
The Mine with the Iron Door (1924) $158.00 Dorothy Mackaill Pat O’Malley
A Chapter in a Life(1923) $0.00 Jane Mercer Claude Gillingwater
A Woman in Paris(1923) $0.00 Edna Purviance Clarence Geldart
Chickie(1925) $0.00 Dorothy Mackaill John Bowers
Policing the Plains(1924) $0.00 Dorothy Fowler Jack Downing
Shootin’ Irons $0.00 Sally Blane Jack Luden
Silver King/Thundering Hoofs(1924) $0.00 Ann May Fred Thomson
Stepping Along $0.00 documentary documentary
The Immigrant(1917) $0.00 Edna Purviance Charles Chaplin
The Street of Forgotten Women $0.00 none none
Ypres(1925) $0.00 documentary documentary
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Forever(1921) $2,000.00 Elsie Ferguson Wallace Reid
Nanook of the North(1922) $2,000.00 Alice Nevalinga Allakariallak
The Grey House $2,000.00 Magda Sonja Werner Krauss
The Show Girl $2,000.00 Mildred Harris Gaston Glass
Snowbound $1,917.00 Betty Blythe Robert Agnew
Grass(1925) $1,875.00 documentary documentary
Tillers of the Soil $1,875.00 Renée Tandil Charles Vanel
Wild Beauty $1,850.00 June Marlowe Hugh Allan
No Man’s Law $1,800.00 Barbara Kent James Finlayson
Grandma’s Boy(1922) $1,750.00 Mildred Davis Harold Lloyd
Foolish Wives(1922) $1,700.00 Miss DuPont Rudolph Christians
Blake of Scotland Yard-serial $1,600.00 Grace Cunard Hayden Stevenson
Peter the Great(1922) $1,583.00 Dagny Servaes Emil Jannings
The Loves of Pharaoh(1922) $1,583.00 Lyda Salmonova Emil Jannings
Every Mother’s Son $1,550.00 Jean Jay – Rex Davis
A Doll’s House(1922) $1,500.00 Alla Nazimova Alan Hale
Jealousy(1925) $1,400.00 Lya De Putti Werner Krauss
Othello(1922) $1,400.00 Ica von Lenkeffy Emil Jannings
The Thoroughbred(1925) $1,400.00 Gladys Hulette Macklyn Arbuckle
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent(1925) $1,375.00 Helene Chadwick Kenneth Harlan
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln(1924) $1,200.00 Ruth Clifford George A. Billings
Janice Meredith(1924) $1,100.00 Marion Davies Holbrook Blinn
Blind Husbands(1919) $1,000.00 Francelia Billington Sam De Grasse
Captain January(1924) $1,000.00 Irene Rich Hobart Bosworth
Men of Daring $1,000.00 Ena Gregory Jack Hoxie
Million Dollar Mystery $1,000.00 Lila Lee James Kirkwood
Second to None $1,000.00 Benita Hume Moore Marriott
The Adventurer(1917) $1,000.00 Edna Purviance Charles Chaplin
The Birth of a Nation(1915) $1,000.00 Lillian Gish Henry B. Walthall
The Fighting Blade(1923) $1,000.00 Dorothy Mackaill Richard Barthelmess
There He Goes(1925) $1,000.00 Peggy Montgomery Harry Langdon
Irish Hearts $950.00 May McAvoy Jason Robards Sr.
Log of a U-Boat/The Log of the U-35(1919) $938.00 documentary documentary
The Return of Boston Blackie $900.00 Corliss Palmer Bob Custer
On Stroke of Twelve $784.00 June Marlowe David Torrence