Richard Brooks Movies

Want to know the best Richard Brooks movies?  How about the worst Richard Brooks movies?  Curious about Richard Brooks box office grosses or which Richard Brooks movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Richard Brooks movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.

Richard Brooks (1912-1992) was an American screenwriter, and director.  Brooks was nominated for 8 Oscars®.  He won a Best Writing Oscar® for Elmer Gantry.  His IMDb page shows 62 writing & directing credits from 1942 to 1985. This page will rank Richard Brooks movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.

Richard Brooks Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1960	Elmer Gantry (1960) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Writing Win
1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Director Nom
1948	Key Largo (1948) Writer
1947	Crossfire (1947) AA Best Picture Nom Writer
1966	The Professionals (1966) AA Best Director Nom
1947	Brute Force (1947) Writer
1949	Any Number Can Play (1949) Writer
1955	Blackboard Jungle (1955) AA Best Writing Nom
1954	The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) Director
1967	In Cold Blood (1967) AA Best Director Nom
1977	Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Director
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) Director
1943	White Savage (1943) Writer
1958	The Brothers Karamazov (1958) Director
1957	Something of Value (1957) Director
1965	Lord Jim (1965) Director
1975	Bite the Bullet (1975) Director
1956	The Last Hunt (1956) Director
1950	Storm Warning (1950) Writer
1953	Take The High Ground! (1953) Director
1950	Crisis (1950) Director
1952	Deadline - USA (1952) Director
1954	Flame and the Flesh (1954) Director
1956	The Catered Affair (1956) Director
1971	$ (1971) Director
1950	Mystery Street (1950) Writer
1944	Cobra Woman (1944) Writer
1953	Battle Circus (1953) Director
1969	The Happy Ending (1969) Director
1948	To The Victor (1948) Writer
1951	The Light Touch (1951) Director
1982	Wrong Is Right (1982) Director
1985	Fever Pitch (1985) Director

Richard Brooks 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 Richard Brooks movies by co-stars of his movies.
• Sort Richard Brooks movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Richard Brooks movies by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort Richard Brooks 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 Richard Brooks movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Richard Brooks movie won.
• Sort Richard Brooks movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Richard Brooks Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Movie (Year)	UMR Co-Star Links	World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil)	S
Movie (Year)	UMR Co-Star Links	World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil)	S
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Director Nom	Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor	738.70
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) Director	Elizabeth Taylor & Roger Moore	383.50
Key Largo (1948) Writer	Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall	359.30
Crossfire (1947) AA Best Picture Nom Writer	Robert Mitchum & Robert Ryan	294.50
Any Number Can Play (1949) Writer	Clark Gable & Mary Astor	258.80
The Last Hunt (1956) Director	Robert Taylor & Stewart Granger	193.70
Battle Circus (1953) Director	Humphrey Bogart & June Allyson	149.10
Crisis (1950) Director	Cary Grant & José Ferrer	104.40
The Catered Affair (1956) Director	Bette Davis & Ernest Borgnine	95.30
The Light Touch (1951) Director	George Sanders	91.50
Mystery Street (1950) Writer	Elsa Lanchester & Directed by John Sturges	57.70

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