Otto Preminger (1905-1986) was a 3 time Oscar®-nominated director. Originally from Austria-Hungary, Preminger came to the United States and found fame first in theater and then in movies. He would end up directing over 35 movies in a career that lasted 5 decades. Preminger also appeared in front of the cameras…most notably in 1953’s Stalag 17. His IMDb page shows 58 directing and acting credits from 1931 to 1986. This page ranks 38 Otto Preminger movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, some of his early British movies and his movies not released in North America theaters are not included in the rankings.
Otto Preminger Movies Ranked By Combination of Box Office, Reviews and Awards (UMR Score) *Classic UMR Table (the one with all the stats is the second table)
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Anatomy of a Murder (1959) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Director Nom |
James Stewart & Lee Remick |
15.70 | 327.4 | 327.40 | 13 | 86 | 07 / 00 | 99.3 | |
| 2 | Stalag 17 (1953) | William Holden & Robert Strauss |
10.00 | 208.3 | 208.30 | 17 | 89 | 03 / 01 | 99.0 | |
| 3 | Laura (1944) AA Best Director Nom |
Dana Andrews & Clifton Webb |
6.50 | 252.0 | 252.00 | 39 | 86 | 05 / 01 | 98.9 | |
| 2 | The Pied Piper (1942) AA Best Picture Nom |
Monty Woolley & Roddy McDowall |
5.70 | 246.3 | 246.30 | 30 | 77 | 03 / 00 | 98.3 | |
| 4 | The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) | Frank Sinatra & Eleanor Parker |
11.70 | 280.2 | 280.20 | 22 | 80 | 03 / 00 | 97.6 | |
| 8 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) | Gary Cooper & Rod Steiger |
8.60 | 206.0 | 206.00 | 34 | 72 | 01 / 00 | 95.5 | |
| 12 | Carmen Jones (1954) Director |
Harry Belafonte & Dorothy Dandridge |
7.10 | 194.1 | 194.10 | 40 | 73 | 02 / 00 | 95.3 | |
| 10 | Porgy and Bess (1959) | Dorothy Dandridge & Sidney Poitier |
8.30 | 172.6 | 172.60 | 28 | 77 | 04 / 01 | 95.3 | |
| 6 | Exodus (1960) | Paul Newman & Eva Marie Saint |
23.80 | 431.2 | 431.20 | 4 | 67 | 03 / 01 | 94.9 | |
| 7 | The Cardinal (1963) AA Best Director Nom |
John Huston & Burgess Meredith |
15.10 | 219.1 | 219.10 | 15 | 66 | 06 / 00 | 94.7 | |
| 11 | Centennial Summer (1946) | Linda Darnell & Walter Brennan |
8.10 | 289.6 | 289.60 | 31 | 63 | 02 / 00 | 92.8 | |
| 12 | River of No Return (1954) | Marilyn Monroe & Robert Mitchum |
10.90 | 295.0 | 295.00 | 24 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 15 | Fallen Angel (1945) | Linda Darnell & Dana Andrews |
4.20 | 153.2 | 153.20 | 83 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 90.8 | |
| 13 | Forever Amber (1947) | Linda Darnell & George Sanders |
13.50 | 456.5 | 456.50 | 5 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 14 | The Moon Is Blue (1953) | William Holden & David Niven |
12.40 | 258.1 | 258.10 | 11 | 52 | 03 / 00 | 89.3 | |
| 18 | Daisy Kenyon (1947) | Joan Crawford & Henry Fonda |
4.70 | 159.8 | 159.80 | 74 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 88.0 | |
| 19 | In Harm's Way (1965) | John Wayne & Kirk Douglas |
11.50 | 140.8 | 140.80 | 18 | 67 | 01 / 00 | 87.2 | |
| 17 | Advise & Consent (1962) | Franchot Tone & Lew Ayres |
5.70 | 95.2 | 95.20 | 47 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 86.3 | |
| 19 | They Got Me Covered (1943) | Bob Hope | 6.20 | 259.6 | 398.30 | 40 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 85.0 | |
| 20 | Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) | Dana Andrews & Gene Tierney |
2.90 | 74.4 | 74.40 | 110 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 84.5 | |
| 21 | A Royal Scandal (1945) Director |
Vincent Price & Anne Baxter |
4.20 | 153.2 | 153.20 | 84 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 84.0 | |
| 23 | Whirlpool (1950) | Gene Tierney | 3.30 | 85.6 | 85.60 | 100 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 80.6 | |
| 22 | Angel Face (1953) | Robert Mitchum & Jean Simmons |
3.00 | 63.1 | 63.10 | 132 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 80.1 | |
| 24 | Bonjour Tristesse (1958) | Deborah Kerr & David Niven |
2.40 | 49.1 | 49.10 | 94 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 74.5 | |
| 27 | That Lady in Ermine (1948) | Betty Grable & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
3.70 | 116.3 | 116.30 | 92 | 50 | 01 / 00 | 74.0 | |
| 25 | Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) | Laurence Olivier & Carol Lynley |
2.40 | 29.8 | 29.80 | 96 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 72.5 | |
| 26 | The 13th Letter (1951) | Linda Darnell | 2.10 | 53.6 | 53.60 | 149 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 71.1 | |
| 28 | Hurry Sundown (1967) | Michael Caine & Jane Fonda |
10.10 | 104.6 | 104.60 | 29 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 65.4 | |
| 28 | Under Your Spell (1936) | Lawrence Tibbett | 1.10 | 54.4 | 54.40 | 138 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 62.4 | |
| 32 | Margin For Error (1943) | Joan Bennett & Milton Berle |
1.80 | 74.0 | 74.00 | 120 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 61.3 | |
| 29 | Such Good Friends (1971) | Dyan Cannon | 5.30 | 40.2 | 40.20 | 59 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 59.7 | |
| 30 | The Fan (1949) | George Sanders & Jeanne Crain |
1.10 | 31.1 | 31.10 | 180 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 58.1 | |
| 33 | Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) | Liza Minnelli | 2.60 | 21.1 | 21.10 | 91 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 47.2 | |
| 34 | In the Meantime, Darling (1944) | Jeanne Crain | 1.00 | 39.7 | 39.70 | 147 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 44.1 | |
| 35 | The Human Factor (1979) | John Gielgud | 0.40 | 1.9 | 1.90 | 162 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 31.9 | |
| 36 | Skidoo (1968) | Mickey Rooney & Marx Brothers |
2.90 | 27.3 | 27.30 | 100 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 22.6 | |
| 37 | Saint Joan (1957) | Richard Widmark | 1.10 | 25.5 | 25.50 | 148 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 21.8 | |
| 38 | Rosebud (1975) | Peter O'Toole | 1.90 | 11.3 | 11.30 | 119 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 12.7 |
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The most embarrassing scene in Bunny Lake was when Laurence and Olivier and Noel Coward were engaged in a conversation in a bar and had to pause to watch The Zombies sing on television (apparently to justify listing the group among the credits.)
Prior to the release of the film, Preminger was quoted as saying that if this movie didn’t make a star out of Carol Lynley, nothing would.
Hey Nick…..thanks for the trivia on Bunny Lake Is Missing. I have not seen that movie yet….but it is on my list of movies to watch. I will check out that scene of The Zombies singing…Sir Larry and The Zombies…sounds like a good combination. Well….I guess Otto was right….Carol Lynley never became a massive star. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for your superb website. (Thanks also for the image you have planted on my mind of a rock group called Sir Larry and the Zombies – I can just imagine Olivier jamming with the band.)
Hey Nick…glad you like my idea of Sir Larry and the Zombies….this was of course before Larry got old and could not stand rock music like he did in The Jazz Singer….lol.
can a musical group make bunny lake a Zombie flick? LOL
I’ve seen 8 of the 38 films on the chart, I expected more. My favorites – Stalag 17, Laura and River of No Return.
I watched In Harms Way again recently, some good model work during the sea battles but it’s a long-winded soap opera. I’m not a big fan of ‘domestic drama war movies’. If I’m going to watch a war film I want to see action, battles, soldiers fighting, not soldiers and generals arguing with their wives and kids. The one big exception is From Here to Eternity, which was very well done.
Good to see Stalag 17 top the critics chart, my second favorite prisoner of war movie.
Otto had a four year affair with Dorothy Dandridge the subject of a recent UMR page.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
I was watching the Bunny Lake Is Missing trailer. Looks like Otto was trying to be Hitchcock with Psycho. Based on the limited box office success, he did not succeed at all. The trailer looks like the Julianne Moore movie from a few years ago, got remember the name, but now I am wondering if aliens were involved in Bunny Lake.
Hey SteinHoF16….when I am adding these videos….usually I am only listening to them as I do the “stuff” to create the trailer page….when I heard Otto talking about not letting anybody in once the movie starts…..I wondered if somehow the trailer was for Psycho instead of Bunny Lake. Good point about it sounding like Moore’s The Forgotten. Good to hear from you.