1927 Movies

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.

1927’s The Jazz Singer

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.

  • Sort 1927 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1927  Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
  • Sort 1927  Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • 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.

1927’s The King of Kings

Top earners in 1927 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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23 thoughts on “1927 Movies”

  1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here is the estimated B.O. for the year 1927.

    PART 1 OF 12
    Wings $2,899,174.00 Clara Bow  Charles Rogers
    Don Juan $1,663,664.00 Jane Winton  John Barrymore
    The King of Kings  $1,556,895.00 Dorothy Cumming  H. B. Warner 
    The Gaucho $1,091,000.00 Lupe Vélez Douglas Fairbanks 
    Seventh Heaven/7th Heaven $1,038,763.00 Janet Gaynor  Charles Farrell 
    Patent Leather Town $971,500.00 Molly O’Day Richard Barthelmess
    The Way of All Flesh $824,233.00 Belle Bennett  Emil Jannings
    The Kid Brother $707,275.00 Jobyna Ralston Harold Lloyd 
    Sorrell and Son $694,200.00 Anna Q. Nilsson H. B. Warner
    Underworld $682,350.00 Evelyn Brent  George Bancroft
    When a Man Loves/His Lady $680,968.00 Dolores Costello John Barrymore
    Tell it to the Marines $651,953.00 Eleanor Boardman Lon Chaney
    The Scarlet Letter $579,901.00 Lillian Gish  Lars Hanson 
    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ $565,758.00 May McAvoy  Ramon Novarro
    The Dove $545,729.00 Norma Talmadge  Noah Beery
    Camille $524,471.00 Norma Talmadge Gilbert Roland
    Sunrise $515,800.00 Janet Gaynor George O’Brien
    London after Midnight $515,550.00 Marceline Day  Lon Chaney
    The Love of Sunya $500,194.00 Gloria Swanson  John Boles 
    The Enemy $479,250.00 Lillian Gish Ralph Forbes 
    The Magic Flame $478,258.00 Vilma Bánky Ronald Colman
    Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness $476,995.00 Chantui Kru
    The Private Life of Helen of Troy $465,675.00 María Corda Lewis Stone
    The Loves of Carmen  $462,350.00 Dolores del Río  Don Alvarado
    My Best Girl $461,450.00 Mary Pickford  Charles “Buddy” Rogers 
    Get Your Man $449,876.00 Clara Bow Charles “Buddy” Rogers
    Hula $442,664.00 Clara Bow Clive Brook 
    12 Miles Out/Twelve Miles Out $440,408.00 Joan Crawford  John Gilbert 
    Mockery $430,300.00 Barbara Bedford Lon Chaney 
    The Fair Co-Ed $418,300.00 Marion Davies  Johnny Mack Brown
    Metropolis $408,983.00 Brigitte Helm Alfred Abel
    Man, Woman and Sin $407,100.00 Jeanne Eagels  John Gilbert
    Old San Francisco $402,821.00 Dolores Costello  Warner Oland 
    Spring Fever $401,263.00 Joan Crawford William Haines
    Swim, Girl, Swim $392,180.00 Bebe Daniels  James Hall
    After Midnight $383,158.00 Norma Shearer Lawrence Gray 
    Chicago $381,075.00 Phyllis Haver  Victor Varconi 
    The Night of Love $375,470.00 Vilma Bánky Ronald Colman 
    Service for Ladies $367,550.00 Kathryn Carver Adolphe Menjou 
    Barbed Wire $365,688.00 Pola Negri  Clive Brook
    A Gentleman of Paris $361,863.00 Shirley O’Hara Adolphe Menjou
    The Beloved Rogue $360,438.00 Marceline Day John Barrymore
    Fireman, Save My Child $359,157.00 Josephine Dunn  Wallace Beery 
    Two Arabian Knights $358,418.00 Mary Astor  William Boyd 
    The Devil Dancer $357,350.00 Gilda Gray  Clive Brook 
    The Gay Defender $353,500.00 Thelma Todd  Richard Dix 
    The Road to Romance $352,250.00 Marceline Day Ramon Novarro
    It $351,541.00 Clara Bow Antonio Moreno 
    Resurrection $349,644.00 Dolores del Río  Rod La Rocque
    Casey at the Bat $348,100.00 ZaSu Pitts Wallace Beery 
    Blonde or Brunette $345,050.00 Greta Nissen  Adolphe Menjou 

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  2. Congratulations on your ground-breaking research on the grosses for films from 1827 to 1930!
    As you have indicated information on this data has been very difficult to find.
    I wanted to recommend that you include the following information in order to give some necessary context to each of the decades you have research.
    1. Document the U.S. population for each decade and/or in the world at that time (filmgoers
    were much less than they are today, etc.).
    2. The average price of a movie ticket.
    3. In the case of the 1930s, the fact that the Great Depression lasted for the entire decade; and
    in the 1940s especially, the fact that most of the world was at war and that impacted how
    much films grossed in foreign markets and why.
    I think these factors will give the reader a better insight into each of the decades.
    Thank you for your time and keep up the good work.

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  3. I have seen 9 movies from 1927, all of them in the top 20.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Wings.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is 7th Heaven.

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is College.

    Favourite 1927 Movies:

    Wings
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    Metropolis
    The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg
    Love
    When a Man Loves
    College

    Other 1927 Movies I Have Seen:

    The Jazz Singer
    The King of Kings

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    1. Hey Flora….thanks for checking out this new page that looks at movies that are 93 years old. I have seen 3 of the movies….but they are the first three you list. Wings, Sunrise and Metropolis. I have some how managed not to see The Jazz Singer….though I have seen the Neil Diamond version many times…as BERN1960 loved that movie a lot….and it seems it was always playing when I was growing up. Good stuff as always.

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  5. It has been awhile….but here is a new yearly review. I was looking at the database and saw we had over 80 1927 movies in the database….figured it was probably better to do this page, than let those movies sit in the database unseen.

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