☝️ Pop vs. Box 👇 '41 - '87

Card 160

Key -

B - box office rank for year
P - current popular ranking for year
🎖️ - first place rank for year
🤔 - most obscure
* - actor only
** - director/writer
*** - director/writer/actor
**** - director/actor
unmarked - director only

note - Mr. Huston's co-writing only efforts are not included in scoring and are in reply below. Casino Royale (67), co writer/director.

41 The Maltese Falcon** B8 P2
42 In This Our Life B68 P55
42 Across the Pacific B54 P40
46 Let There Be Light** - no data
48 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*** B6 P6
48 Key Largo** B24 P10
49 We Were Strangers*** B126 P123
50 The Asphalt Jungle** B22 P10
51 The Red Badge of Courage** B57 P48
51 The African Queen** B5 P5
53 Moulin Rouge** B4 P17
53 Beat the Devil** B43 P30
56 Moby Dick** B8 P8
57 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison** B47 P31
58 The Barbarian & The Geisha B61 P58
58 The Roots of Heaven B126 P123
60 The Unforgiven B49 P26
61 The Misfits B14 P12
62 Freud : The Secret Passion B100 P93
63 The List of Adrian Messenger**** B84 P68
63 The Cardinal* B79 P62
64 The Night of the Iguana - no data
66 The Bible: In the Beginning****🎖️ B1 P70
67 Reflections in a Golden Eye B28 P55
67 Casino Royale*** B14 P7
68 Candy* B15 P18
69 Sinful Davey - no data
69 A Walk with Love and Death - no data
69 De Sade* B40 P122
70 The Kremlin Letter* B110 P156
70 Myra Breckenridge* B22 P36
71 The Bridge in the Jungle* - no data
71 The Deserter* - no data
71 Man in the Wilderness* B193 P133
72 Fat City B148 P63
72 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean**** B14 P62
73 Battle for the Planet of the Apes* - no data
73 The Macintosh Man B27 P147
74 Chinatown* B19 P3
75 The Man Who Would Be King** B72 P22
75 Breakout* B22 P101
75 The Wind and the Lion* B46 P48
76 Independence - (short film)
76 Sherlock Holmes in New York* - no data
77 Tentacles* B79 P56
77 Angela* B176 P167
78 The Greatest Battle* - no data
78 The Bermuda Triangle* B109 P88
79 The Visitor* B116 P91
79 Wise Blood**** B141 P124
79 Winter Kills* B57 P80
79 Jaguar Lives!*- no data
80 Phobia* B94 P238
80 Head On* - no data
81 Victory B66 P44
82 Annie B9 P9
83 Lovesick*🤔 B64 P311
84 Under the Volcano B123 P173
85 Prizzi's Honor B32 P91
86 Momo* - no data
87 The Dead B108 P185

Movies scored - 46
Box sum - 2930
Pop sum - 3479

Box avg rank - 63.69
Pop avg rank - 75.63

BA-PA = -11.93

Box top 20 - 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥
Pop top 20 - ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️

Best box - The Bible:In the Beginning (1)
Worst box - Man in the Wilderness (193)
Best pop - The Maltese Falcon (2)
Worst Pop - Lovesick (311)

Pop Gainer - Fat City (+85)
Pop Loser - Lovesick (-247)

B+P

Best - The Maltese Falcon (10), The African Queen (10)
Worst - Lovesick (375)

It is natural for popular rankings to be higher due to the influx of art house, international and straight to video releases.

Scoring b-p

10+ = excellent
9 to -9 = good
-10 to -29 = average
-30 to -49 = poor
-50 and below= very poor

Example

Moulin Rouge B4 P17 = -13 (avg)

Tally

Excellent (10 pts each) = 18
Good (5 pts each) = 13
Average (0 pts each ) = 4
Poor (-5 pts each) = 2
Very poor (-10 pts each) = 9
Pop top 20 bonus (5 pts each) = 11

180+75-10-90+55

Mr. J Huston's Pop/Box library score:

210