Want to know the best Humphrey Bogart movies? How about the worst Humphrey Bogart movies? Curious about Humphrey Bogart ’s box office grosses or which Humphrey Bogart movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Humphrey Bogart 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.
Did you know that the American Film Institute ranked Humphrey Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema? Bogart however did not find an easy road to the title of greatest male star ever. After trying numerous jobs including playing chess for money he turned to acting in 1921. He found regular work on Broadway through the rest of the 1920s. When the Great Depression reduced the demand for plays, he turned his attention to movies. His first full length film was 1930’s Up the River which was directed by a very young John Ford and co-starred Spencer Tracy (also his first film). His first movie contract with Fox Films was terminated when they concluded he was not star material. Shortly there after he signed with Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers gave Bogart plenty of work from 1936 to 1940.
He appeared in twenty movies in that time frame, almost all the movies were low budget B movies. He did manage to get strong notices from two of the movies made during this time….1936’s The Petrified Forest and 1937’s Dead End. So by the end of the 1930s, Bogart either appeared as the one of stars in horrible low budget film, or as the 3rd or 4th lead in a higher budgeted movie. In the higher budgeted movies he would usually get the cowardly bad guy role and many times killed by James Cagney.
Two films in 1941 changed everything for Bogart. High Sierra was a surprise hit, it did very well at the box office and critics loved the movie and proved Bogart could carry a film. Later that year The Maltese Falcon was released to even bigger box office and an Oscar® nomination for Best Picture. After the success of those two films, Bogart found himself in better movies. In 1942 he made his greatest film, Casablanca. Bogart’s role of Rick in Casablanca would cement his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Bogart would appear in 29 more movies from 1943 to 1956, all of which were big budget and he was always the star. Some of his greatest success during this time would include 1944’s To Have and Have Not (his first film with 4th wife Lauren Bacall), 1951’s African Queen (won Oscar® for this movie), 1954’s The Caine Mutiny (his biggest box office hit) and 1956’s The Harder They Fall (his final movie). Humphrey Bogart passed away in early 1957 after a battle with cancer. John Huston’s eulogy says it all… “He is quite irreplaceable. There will never be another like him.”
His IMDb page shows 85 acting credits from 1928-1956. This page will rank Humphrey Bogart movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, cameos and uncredited movies that were included in the rankings.
Humphrey Bogart Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Humphrey Bogart 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 Humphrey Bogart movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by actual domestic box office grosses
- Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Humphrey Bogart 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 Humphrey Bogart movie received.
- Sort Humphrey Bogart 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.
Humphrey Bogart Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Let’s take a quick moment to look at two of Bogart’s worst movies. Don’t worry you Bogart fans he thought these two movies were horrible too.
1937’s Swing That Lady: Bogart plays a wrestling promoter who brings his wrestler Joe, to the Ozarks, to wrestle a female hillbilly Amazon named Sadie Hills….naturally Bogart falls in love with Sadie and they all live happily ever after in this musical comedy…..Bogart’s thoughts on this movie….”It’s a stinker”
1938’s The Return of Dr. X: Bogart’s only science fiction movie….he plays a mad evil genius doctor who figures out a way to bring the dead back to life. For some reason Bogart refused to talk about this movie later in his life.
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Bogie was the man, not bad for an ugly looking man, hey I am a poet and did not even no it. My favorite Bogie movie is the Caine Mutiny, he played a great disturbed captain.
Hey hinton funny comments…..Caine Mutiny is a great movie…I love Fred MacMurray’s role……the quiet villian in the movie….thanks for commenting..
I honestly haven’t seen one Bogart movie. My enjoyment of movies from the 50’s and 60’s are seemingly very rare. I really do need to give at elast Casablanca a look see though.
Hey Matt in Jax…..Bogart has some classic movies….I would say a great movie to start with would be The Maltese Falcon….and then Casablanca ….those two should give you a great idea of his acting style and they are both considered classics….Casablanca actually won the Oscar for Best Picture….thanks for the comments
Very nice. Here is a Bogart story for you. When I was a kid I was watching Play It Again Sam by Woody Allen, i thought the guy playing Bogart was the real Bogart, it was not till years later did I realize Bogart was long gone by the time Woody Allen made the movie. Since then I have seen a few of his movies. I however did not really like Casablanca, I thought it was kinda boring. Although it looks like you are back to the old dead guys, lol.
Thanks for checking in YankeesRule……yep I went back to the old dead guys….but Bogey is someone who needed a movie page….funny story about Play It Again Sam….I can see how a kid could get that confused….and finally you are one of the few people I know that did not like Casablanca….thanks for the comment
“The shtuff that dreamsh are made of” Bogart and Monroe, the two most iconic stars in Hollywoods history and the most caricatured, no one else comes close.
“Here’s looking at you kid” I’m glad Casablanca is no.1 on your score list Cogerson, it’s my favourite Bogart film, favourite 1940’s movie and favourite B/W movie. 🙂
I have 35 of Bogies films here in the collection according to my database, other favourites include The Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Caine Mutiny, African Queen and Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Looking at your page has got me in the mood to watch these classic films again. Have a Bogart season… hmmm
Hey Steve….I agree it is time for some Bogart movies….I have a DVD of Maltese Falcon that I have not even opened since I bought it about 2 years ago….so had you ever heard of the movie Up the River?…..talk about some talent….Bogart and Spencer Tracy being directed by John Ford. It is hard to argue Casablanca as anything other than number one….it scored the highest critic score, his second biggest box office hit, he got his first Oscar nomination, and the picture won Best Picture….tough numbers to beat….and it is a great movie. Thanks for reading.
I don’t have Up the River, 1930? wow I didn’t know he was around then. The oldest film I have with Bogie in is The Petrified Forest and Bullets or Ballots (which isn’t on your list btw) both 1936.
Hey Steve I have added Bullets or Ballots….I left a few of his 1930 movies off due to lack of information and his low billing in the movies….but I did find some info on Bullets….he made 5 movies with Edward G. Robinson….pretty sure this was the first one….anyway Bullets or Ballots comes in at #40…..also Up The River was the movie with Bogart, Tracy and John Ford direction….thanks for reading.
I remember when Bogie was voted the greatest male movie star ever. There was quite a bit of debate about it. (I wouldn’t have put him quite that high either) BUt he was a huge star and he made a lot of movies. Unlike the leading men of today, he wasn’t particularly good looking but he could still pull off the romantic lead. I love many of his films. “The Maltese Falcon” is probably my favorite Bogie film but “Casablanca” was his defining role. He made a good anti-hero–the bad good guy. I even liked him in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” where he played an unlikeable antagonist role.
Rob
Hey Rob….I agree 100% with you about him in Treasure of the Sierra Madre…he was awesome as the anti-hero in that movie and that Maltese Falcon is a classic…..as for him being voted number one….I can see moving him down….if only because his career as a top star was so short…pretty much 1941-1956….compared somebody like Clark Gable(30 years) and Gary Cooper(30+ years)…thanks for reading as always.