1926 Movies

This movie page looks at 1926 Movies.  Finding box office information for movies made in the 1920s and 1930s is extremely difficult.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1926, 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 1926.  Obviously, many movies made in 1925 earned box office dollars in 1926.  On the other side, many movies made in 1926 made money in 1927 and later.  This page looks at over 90 1926 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 1926

1926 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 1926 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1926 Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
  • Sort 1926 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • Sort 1926 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 1926 Movies received.
  • Sort 1926 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.

Top earners in 1926 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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  1. PART 12 OF 12
    Off His Beat $183.00 Evelyn Francisco Walter Hiers
    Punch on the Nose $183.00 Martha Sleeper Al St. John
    A Bankrupt Honeymoon $100.00 Shirley Palmer Harold Goodwin 
    Atta Boy $0.00 Virginia Bradford Monty Banks
    Double Daring $0.00 Jean Arthur Hal Taliaferro
    Every Mother’s Son $0.00 Jean Jay  Rex Davis 
    Lazy Lightning $0.00 Fay Wray Art Acord
    Lightning Bill $0.00 Jean Arthur William Bailey
    Married? $0.00 Constance Bennett Owen Moore
    Tex $0.00 Ruth Mix Robert McKim
    That Girl Oklahoma $0.00 Ruth Mix Bryant Washburn
    The Cowboy Cop $0.00 Jean Arthur Tom Tyler
    The Fighting Cheat $0.00 Jean Arthur Hal Taliaferro
    The Naked Truth(1914) $0.00 Lyda Borelli  Ruggero Capodaglio
    The Roaring Rider $0.00 Jean Arthur Jay Wilsey
    Twisted Triggers $0.00 Jean Arthur Hal Taliaferro
    Under Fire $0.00 Jean Arthur Bill Patton
    West of the Law $0.00 Neva Gerber Ben F. Wilson

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  2. PART 11 OF 12
    The Silent Power $1,500.00 Ethel Shannon Ralph Lewis
    A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate(1923) $1,367.00 Edna Purviance Clarence Geldert
    Dream Street(1921) $1,367.00 Carol Dempster Charles Emmett Mack 
    The Mark of Zorro(1920) $1,367.00 Marguerite De La Motte Douglas Fairbanks
    The Night Patrol $1,300.00 Rose Blossom  Richard Talmadge
    The Highbinders(1915) $1,250.00 Seena Owen  Eugene Pallette 
    The Kiss $1,100.00 Carmel Myers  George Periolat 
    The Fighting Parade $1,000.00 Marjorie Day Gene Tunney
    The Silk Bouquet $1,000.00 Anna May Wong James B. Leong
    His Brother’s Keeper(1921) $900.00 Martha Mansfield Albert L. Barrett 
    Way Down East(1920) $900.00 Lillian Gish Richard Barthelmess 
    Looking for Trouble $833.00 Marceline Day Jack Hoxie
    The Man from the West $800.00 Eugenia Gilbert  Art Acord 
    The Thief of Bagdad(1924) $800.00 Julanne Johnston  Douglas Fairbanks 
    Beyond the Rockies $667.00 Eugenia Gilbert Bob Custer
    East is West(1922) $667.00 Constance Talmadge  Edmund Burns 
    Fury(1923) $667.00 Dorothy Gish  Richard Barthelmess 
    Painted People(1924) $667.00 Colleen Moore  Ben Lyon 
    Something to Think About(1920) $667.00 Gloria Swanson Elliott Dexter 
    The City of Silent Men $667.00 Lois Wilson  Thomas Meighan 
    The Coward(1915) $667.00 Gertrude Claire  Frank Keenan 
    The Eternal Flame(1922) $667.00 Norma Talmadge  Adolphe Menjou 
    The Gilded Lily(1921) $667.00 Mae Murray  Lowell Sherman 
    The Woman On the Jury(1923) $667.00 Sylvia Breamer Frank Mayo 
    The Fighting Peacemaker $650.00 Lola Todd Jack Hoxie 
    The Terror $650.00 Velma Connor Art Acord 
    The Border Sheriff $608.00 Olive Hasbrouck Jack Hoxie 
    She $600.00 Betty Blythe Carlyle Blackwell
    The Mine with the Open Door(1924) $600.00 Dorothy Mackaill Pat O’Malley 
    The Unwanted $600.00 Lillian Hall-Davis  C. Aubrey Smith
    The Wandering Jew $600.00 Malvina Longfellow  Matheson Lang
    K-The Unknown(1924) $575.00 Virginia Valli Percy Marmont
    The Ridin’ Rascal $550.00 Olive Hasbrouck Art Acord
    Red Hot Leather $500.00 Ena Gregory  Jack Hoxie 
    The Escape $500.00 Barbara Starr  Pete Morrison
    The Scrappin’ Kid $500.00 Velma Connor  Art Acord 
    Driftin’ Thru $475.00 Ruth King Harry Carey
    Fighting Boob $475.00 Violet Palmer Bob Custer
    The Set-Up $475.00 Alta Allen Art Acord 
    Yellow Back $475.00 Lotus Thompson  Fred Humes 
    Blue Blazes $450.00 Barbara Starr  Pete Morrison 
    The Silent Flyer-serial $433.00 Louise Lorraine  Malcolm McGregor
    Born to Battle $367.00 Jean Arthur Tom Tyler
    Silk Stocking Sal(1924) $367.00 Evelyn Brent  Robert Ellis 
    The Marquerade Bandit $367.00 Dorothy Dunbar  Tom Tyler
    Pawnshop Politics $275.00 Barbara Luddy George Harris
    Chasing Trouble $250.00 Ione Reed  Pete Morrison
    Shore Leave $250.00 Dorothy Mackaill Richard Barthelmess 
    So Big(1924) $221.00 Colleen Moore Joseph De Grasse
    Rustlers Ranch $213.00 Olive Hasbrouck Art Acord 
    Never the Twain Shall $183.00 Anny Ondra  Jan W. Speerger

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  3. PART 10 OF 12
    Hearts and Fists $4,600.00 Marguerite De La Motte John Bowers
    The Self Starter $4,500.00 Mildred Harris Reed Howes
    The Buckaroo Kid $4,183.00 Ethel Shannon Hoot Gibson 
    A Woman’s Heart $4,000.00 Enid Bennett  Gayne Whitman
    Hearts and Spangles $4,000.00 Wanda Hawley Robert Gordon
    Dangerous Virtue $3,900.00 Jane Novak Warwick Ward
    The Best Man(1919) $3,900.00 Lois Wilson J. Warren Kerrigan
    Flying High $3,750.00 Alice Calhoun  William Fairbanks 
    His New York Wife $3,750.00 Alice Day Theodore von Eltz
    The Thrill Hunter $3,750.00 Kathryn McGuire William Haines
    The Winning Wallop $3,750.00 Shirley Palmer William Fairbanks
    The Three Musketeers(1921) $3,650.00 Mary MacLaren  Douglas Fairbanks 
    Transcontinental Limited $3,650.00 Eugenia Gilbert  Johnnie Walker 
    Shameful Behavior? $3,600.00 Edith Roberts Richard Tucker
    Blue Boy $3,550.00 Jane Thomas Philippe De Lacy
    Fools of Fashion $3,500.00 Mae Busch  Theodore von Eltz 
    Manon Lescaut $3,500.00 Lya De Putti  Vladimir Gajdarov 
    Out of the Storm $3,500.00 Jacqueline Logan Tyrone Power Sr.
    The Frontier Trail $3,500.00 Mabel Julienne Scott Harry Carey
    The Man in the Shadows $3,250.00 Mary McAllister David Torrence
    Old Wives for New(1918) $3,100.00 Florence Vidor  Elliott Dexter 
    The Guilded Highway $3,000.00 Dorothy Devore John Harron 
    The Hidden Way $3,000.00 Mary Carr Tom Santschi
    The Millionaire Policeman $3,000.00 Eva Novak  Herbert Rawlinson 
    The Last Lap $2,900.00 Dorothy Gulliver George J. Lewis
    Glenister of the Mounted $2,750.00 Bess Flowers  Maurice ‘Lefty’ Flynn 
    Honesty – The Best Policy $2,700.00 Pauline Starke  Rockliffe Fellowes 
    Racing Romance $2,550.00 Virginia Brown Faire  Reed Howes 
    The Prince of Broadway $2,500.00 Alyce Mills George Walsh
    The Texas Streak $2,500.00 Blanche Mehaffey  Hoot Gibson
    Watch Your Step(1923) $2,500.00 Patsy Ruth Miller  Cullen Landis
    Over the Hill(1917) $2,350.00 Gladys Hulette  J.H. Gilmour
    Speed Limit $2,350.00 Ethel Shannon Raymond McKee
    The Fighting Marine-serial $2,225.00 Marjorie Day Gene Tunney 
    A Dog’s Life(1918) $2,167.00 Edna Purviance  Charlie Chaplin
    All Aboard(1917) $2,000.00 Bebe Daniels Harold Lloyd
    Rose of the Tenements $2,000.00 Shirley Mason John Harron
    The Dixie Flyer $2,000.00 Eva Novak  Cullen Landis
    The Phantom of the Forest $2,000.00 Betty Francisco Eddie Phillips
    Winning the Futurity $2,000.00 Clara Horton  Cullen Landis 
    The Ten Commandments(1923) $1,900.00 Estelle Taylor Theodore Roberts
    The Shreik of Araby(1923) $1,833.00 Kathryn McGuire  Ben Turpin
    Never Weaken $1,800.00 Mildred Davis  Harold Lloyd 
    The Carnival Girl $1,800.00 Marion Mack Frankie Darro 
    Hearts of the World(1918) $1,750.00 Lillian Gish Robert Harron 
    Men of the Night $1,750.00 Wanda Hawley Herbert Rawlinson
    Broken Homes $1,600.00 Alice Lake  Gaston Glass 
    One Year to Live $1,600.00 Aileen Pringle Sam De Grasse 
    Racing Blood $1,600.00 Anne Cornwall Robert Agnew
    The Dangerous Dude $1,550.00 Dorothy Dwan  Reed Howes 
    The Secret Spring $1,500.00 Huguette Duflos Maurice Lehmann

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  4. PART 9 OF 12
    The Non-Stop Flight $9,500.00 Marcella Daly Knute Erickson
    The Boob $9,250.00 Gertrude Olmstead George K. Arthur
    The Jade Cup $9,200.00 Evelyn Brent Jack Luden
    Flashing Fangs $9,100.00 Lotus Thompson Robert Ramsey
    Kentucky Handicap $9,000.00 Alice Calhoun Reed Howes
    Red Heads Preferred $9,000.00 Marjorie Daw Raymond Hitchcock
    The Man Upstairs $8,825.00 Dorothy Devore Monte Blue
    The Test of Donald Norton $8,800.00 Eugenia Gilbert  George Walsh 
    Then Came the Woman $8,700.00 Mildred Ryan  Frank Mayo 
    The Power of the Weak $8,500.00 Alice Calhoun  Carl Miller 
    The Iron Horse $8,365.00 Madge Bellamy  George O’Brien 
    White Man(1924) $8,350.00 Alice Joyce  Kenneth Harlan 
    Forbidden Waters $8,050.00 Priscilla Dean Walter McGrail 
    Dame Chance $8,000.00 Julanne Johnston Robert Frazer
    No Man’s Gold $8,000.00 Eva Novak Tom Mix 
    The Gilded Highway $7,800.00 Dorothy Devore John Harron
    The Unfair Sex $7,750.00 Hope Hampton Holbrook Blinn
    Dangerous Friends $7,700.00 Marjorie Whiteis T. Roy Barnes
    The Fighting Edge $7,588.00 Patsy Ruth Miller Kenneth Harlan
    Queen o’ Diamonds $7,300.00 Evelyn Brent Phillips Smalley
    Beau Brummel(1924) $7,000.00 Mary Astor John Barrymore
    The Checkered Flag  $7,000.00 Elaine Hammerstein  Wallace MacDonald 
    While London Sleeps $6,733.00 Helene Costello  Walter Merrill
    When Love Grows Cold $6,700.00 Natacha Rambova Clive Brook
    Among those Present(1921) $6,550.00 Mildred Davis  Harold Lloyd 
    The Exquisite Sinner $6,550.00 Renée Adorée  Conrad Nagel 
    Blood and Sand(1922) $6,500.00 Lila Lee Rudolph Valentino
    The Triflers $6,500.00 Mae Busch  Elliott Dexter 
    The Lost Battalion(1919) $6,400.00 Helen Ferguson Charles W. Whittlesey
    Collegiate $6,375.00 Alberta Vaughn Donald Keith 
    The Miracle Man(1919) $6,337.00 Betty Compson Thomas Meighan
    The Birth of a Nation(1915) $6,200.00 Lillian Gish Henry B. Walthall
    The Kid(1921) $6,000.00 Edna Purviance Charlie Chaplin
    The Last Laugh(1925) $6,000.00 Maly Delschaft  Emil Jannings 
    The Flame of the Yukon $5,917.00 Seena Owen Arnold Gray
    Two Can Play $5,700.00 Clara Bow George Fawcett
    Bred in Old Kentucky $5,500.00 Viola Dana  Jerry Miley 
    The Timid Terror $5,500.00 Edith Murgatroyd George O’Hara 
    The White Sister(1923) $5,500.00 Lillian Gish Ronald Colman
    Sweet Adeline $5,175.00 Gertrude Olmstead Charles Ray 
    A Self Made Man(1922) $5,000.00 Renée Adorée William Russell
    April Fool $5,000.00 Duane Thompson  Alexander Carr
    Jack of Hearts $5,000.00 Gladys Hulette Cullen Landis
    Josselyn’s Wife $5,000.00 Pauline Frederick Holmes Herbert
    Monsieur Beaucaire(1924) $5,000.00 Bebe Daniels Rudolph Valentino
    Sign of the Claw $5,000.00 Ethel Shannon Edward Hearn
    The Count of Luxembourg $5,000.00 Helen Lee Worthing George Walsh
    The Love Toy $4,900.00 Jane Winton Lowell Sherman
    Striving for a Fortune $4,650.00 Beryl Roberts George Walsh 
    West of Broadway $4,650.00 Priscilla Dean  Arnold Gray 

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