This movie page looks at The Top Grossing Movies of 1953. Currently when you type in the search words….”Top Grossing Movies of 1953″ you do not get much information. Wikipedia provides 10 movies. The Numbers.com provides 10 movies. Stats-a-mania offers up 7 movies. You have to go to the 26th search result to find the next place that lists box office results….UMR’s (that’s us) Marilyn Monroe page which offers up her movies. So in an effort to get more information out there…we have decided to unlock our 1953 movie database vault and share the information we have collected over the years.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1953 (as listed on IMDB.com). Obviously many movies made in 1952 earned box office dollars in 1953. On the other side many movies made in 1953 made money in 1954 and later (it Tokyo Story almost 20 years to reach North America). This page will looks at 173 Top Grossing Movies of 1953. The movies are listed in a massive table that shows who starred in the movie, had much the movie grossed when it was released and how that gross means in today’s money.
Obviously this is not all of the 1953 movies…..but since our website is dynamic, ever time we add a 1953 movie….it will automatically be added to this page.
Top Grossing Movies of 1953 Can Be Sorted 6 Ways In This Table
Our UMR Top 50 of 1953
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by critic and audience rating
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by Oscar wins and Oscar nominations
- Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by it’s Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score
1951 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide
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Sawdust and Tinsel
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045848
“box office flop” so good luck finding ticket sales figures
that said
another highly rated film directed by Inmar Gergman
The Living Desert might be the title to Living Desert. Perhaps a bit of a grey area…
Bruce;
Can you find any information on THE MAZE, Allied Artists 3-D movie with Richard Carlson that was released in July 1953
Hey Nick. Hmmm…..this what I have for The Maze. According to Variety it was the number 10 movie of the week for Week Ending 7/1, 7/8 and 7/15. That would put it’s actual gross at about $225,000 for those “big cities”. I have done some research on how much the “big city” total translated to “all cities”. In our estimation that would put The Maze with a rough estimate of $1,125,000. Which would translate to about $18 million in 2021 dollars. Obviously this not the greatest of sources…..but I think it might be close. Good to hear from you.
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
Here are a 2 of typo errors and 2 additional movies to add to the year 1953.
typo error
Sanagree, rank 89, B.O.82.8
should be-Sangaree
typo error
King of the Khyler Rifles, rank 54, B.O.119.6
should be-King of the Khyber Rifles
2 additions-
1953 Code Two, B.O.-$711,000 wikipedia-source:The Eddie Mannix Ledger
1953 Cry of the Hunted, B.O.$625,000 wikipedia-source:The Eddie Mannix Ledger
Thx
Mike
Hey Mike…..fixed the two spelling errors and added in the two movies. The spelling error change can be seen now….the two new movies….will require a compete website update….that is scheduled in a few hours…so by tomorrow you will find the two movies in about 139th (Cry of the Hunted) and 171st (Code Two)…the reported numbers are the total….so the domestic grosses are about what Wiki has posted. Good catch and thanks for the two new movies.
Finally I found some movies to list.
Thx
146 “East of Sumtra” (1953)
should be
146 “East of Sumatra” (1953)
Hey Sidney J. Fixed and a thank you.