1966 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 1966 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 1966 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1966.   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 1966….but should cover the top box office movies.

Ok….I guess ths picture should be the Top 6 minus Alfie….which got a picture at the top of the page.

Our UMR Top 50 of 1966

1966 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 1966 Top Box Office Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
  • Sort 1966 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1966 Top Box Office Movies by stars of the movie
  • Sort 1966 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1966 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 1966 Top Box Office Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1966 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1966 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.
 
Even money 1966’s Fantastic Voyage is one of Steve’s favorite 1966 movies.

Top earners in 1966 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

43 thoughts on “1966 Top Box Office Movies”

  1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    FYI

    Here is B.O. data I found on Pierre “Box Office Story” for Chamber of Horrors.
    It was released to movie theaters from September 4, 1966 thru October 23, 1966.
    Total B.O. gross was $310,000.

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  2. Surprised to not find “Chamber of Horrors” on the 1966 list. An item on the IMDB states that “According to an article in the September 28, 1966 edition of Variety, this film was the second-most profitable film in release at the time.

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  3. A minor point but the actual title to the sequel to THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is THE RETURN OF THE SEVEN. For the DVD release, the studio added the word “Magnificent” to the packaging but the title of the movie onscreen is not changed.

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  4. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Please review the following corrections and possible additions to the year 1966.

    duplicate movies
    1966 An American Dream (1966), rank 116
    1966 An American Dream/I’ll See You In Hell (1966), rank 130

    1966 A Man and a Woman $14 million (domestic) Wikipedia-source-A Man and a Woman, Box Office Information”. The Numbers. Retrieved March 30, 2012.

    1966 Smoky  $4 million. Wikipedia-source-All-time Film Rental Champs”, Variety, 7 January 1976 p 50

    1966 Blowup $5,900,000 Wikipedia-source-Corliss, Richard (5 August 2007). “When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies”. Time. Retrieved 21 February 2011.

    Wikipedia-source-Big Rental Films of 1967″, Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.

    1966 Dracula: Prince of Darkness 2,345,000 Wikipedia-source-read box office in wikipedia

    1966 King of Hearts $580,000 Wikipedia-source-Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 279

    1966 Mademoiselle $575,000 Wikipedia-source-Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 246

    1966 Persona $250,000 Wikipedia-source- Balio 1987, p. 231

    1966 Made in U.S.A. $95,209 Wikipedia-source- Box Office Information for Made in U.S.A

    Thx
    Mike

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  5. 115 Return of The Seven (1966)
    was nominated for an oscar.
    You might have missed it since at the time of nomination it was titled differently.
    “Return of the Magnificent Seven”
    You have the correct title, this is an oscar data correction.

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