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50 Mrs Miniver 1942 - Estimated Admissions 10.2m
The film was patriotic propaganda designed to strengthen American support for the British allies in the Second World War. Winston Churchill once said that this film had done more for the war effort than a flotilla of destroyers. Goebbels said that it was exactly the sort of film the German's should be making. Star Greer Garson's Best Actress acceptance speech lasted an incredible 5 1/2 minutes, making it a Hollywood record.
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49 I Live In Grosvenor Square 1945 - Estimated Admissions 10.3m
A Second World War romance set in Grosvenor Square where the GIs stayed in London. Anna Neagle plays Lady Fairfax who enters into a brief wartime romance with an American Air Force Sergeant (Patterson) – played by Dean Jagger.
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48 Carry on Nurse 1959 - Estimated Admissions 10.4m
A band of male patients rebel against the medical practitioners at a British hospital. High farce directed by Carry On regular Gerald Thomas and featuring series favourites Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. Confined to the hospital's men's ward, Bernie and all the other patients live in fear of Matron (Jacques), a woman who also terrifies nurses Denton, Dawson and Axwell (Eaton, Sims and Stephen respectively). However, when an ill nuclear physicist, Oliver Reckitt (Williams), takes a stand against the Ratched-esque senior nurse, it inspires his fellow "in-mates" to rise up against their oppressor.
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47 Independence Day 1996 - Estimated Admissions 10.79m
War Of The Worlds gets a late 20th century make-over in this enjoyable Americans-save-the-world slice of action/sci-fi from director Roland Emmerich. When aliens land on the Fourth of July, and it's down to US President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and feisty USAF pilot Captain Steven 'Eagle' Hiller (Will Smith) to do something about it. Various famous American landmarks are blown-up along the way, but luckily for Earth, they are ready to kick alien butt.
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46 The Godfather 1972 - Estimated Admissions 11m
Francis Ford Coppola's epic, operatic, bullet-ridden saga of a Mafia family at war with itself and its rivals. Murder, betrayal, ambition: it's all here, and utterly compelling, with Marlon Brando at his scene-stealing best. Coppola had to fight with Paramount Studio head Robert Evans in his decision to cast the star (at the time his career was in the doldrums), but he was rewarded with an Oscar-winning turn from Brando. Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan and Diane Keaton also turned in terrific performances in the movie. The gangster genre was small time in Hollywood before The Godfather, Coppola made it into a kingpin.
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