1927 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies:
Rank | Title | Studio | Box office gross rental |
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1 | Wings | Paramount Pictures | $3,600,000[1] |
2 | The Jazz Singer | Warner Bros. | $1,974,000[2] |
3 | 7th Heaven | Fox Film | $1,800,000[3] |
4 | The King of Kings | Pathé Exchange | $1,500,000[3] |
5 | The Patent Leather Kid | First National Pictures | $1,200,000[3] |
1) Wings
Wings | |
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Produced by | Lucien Hubbard Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky B.P. Schulberg Otto Hermann Kahn (uncredited)[1][a] |
Written by | Titles: Julian Johnson |
Screenplay by | Hope Loring Louis D. Lighton |
Story by | John Monk Saunders |
Starring | Clara Bow Charles (Buddy) Rogers Richard Arlen Gary Cooper |
Music by | J.S. Zamecnik (uncredited) |
Cinematography | Harry Perry |
Edited by | E. Lloyd Sheldon Lucien Hubbard (uncredited) |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
| Original release: 111 minutes[2] Restoration: 144 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Budget | US$ 2 million ($28,850,173 adjusted for inflation)[4] |
2) The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer | |
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Directed by | Alan Crosland |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Screenplay by | Alfred A. Cohn |
Based on | The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson |
Starring | Al Jolson May McAvoy Warner Oland Yossele Rosenblatt |
Music by | Louis Silvers |
Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
Edited by | Harold McCord |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
| 89 minutes 96 minutes (with Overture and Exit Music) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $422,000[1] |
Box office | $2.6 million (gross rental)[1] |
3) 7th Heaven
7th Heaven | |
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Directed by | Frank Borzage |
Produced by | William Fox |
Written by |
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Screenplay by | Benjamin Glazer |
Based on | Seventh Heaven by Austin Strong |
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Edited by | Barney Wolf |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date
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Running time
| 110 min |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Budget | $1.3 million[1] |
Box office | $2.5 million[2] |
4) The King of Kings
The King of Kings | |
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Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
Written by | Jeannie Macpherson |
Starring | H.B. Warner Dorothy Cumming Ernest Torrence Joseph Schildkraut James Neill |
Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld Josiah Zuro |
Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley F.J. Westerberg |
Edited by | Anne Bauchens Harold McLernon |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time
| 155 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film English/Aramaic intertitles |
Box office | $1.5 million[1] |
5) The Patent Leather Kid
The Patent Leather Kid | |
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Directed by | Alfred Santell |
Produced by | Alfred Santell Richard A. Rowland |
Written by | Rupert Hughes (story) Winifred Dunn (scenario) |
Starring | Richard Barthelmess |
Music by | Cecil Copping (at opening) |
Cinematography | Arthur Edeson Ralph Hammeras Alvin Knechtel |
Distributed by | First National Pictures |
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Running time
| ?130-150 minutes(per IMDb) / 12 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Box office | $1.2 million[1] |
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