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45 The Sting 1974 - Estimated Admissions 11.08m
When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, the mentor Paul Newman and the pupil Robert Redford try to get even by pulling off the biggest con ever. Suffice to say, it involves the sour cream of a crop of smart con-artists, and the trick works because of the mark's ego. A clever follow-up to Butch and Sundance, and a huge commercial hit.
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44 Doctor Zhivago 1967 - Estimated Admissions 11.2m
The success of this film was no accident for MGM, it was a decidedly calculated hit. After acquiring the rights to Pasternak’s Nobel Prize winning novel they went about securing the services of all the top industry talent - including David Lean, Julie Christie and Omar Sharif. The critics mauled it so heavily that David Lean retired as a director (for a short period of time), but the public fell in love with the 3 hour 17 minute epic.
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43 The Guns Of Navarone 1961 - Estimated Admissions 11.4m
A big cast - Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn Anthony Quayle - go after some big guns in Columbia Pictures' Second World War action extravaganza. Despite some fearless heroics by Peck and Quinn on their hazardous journey across Nazi occupied Greek territory, it's Niven's cynical explosives expert who steals the show. The unbelievable plot, involving a mission destroy two huge guns on a Greek island overrun by Nazis, only adds to the fun.
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42 Piccadilly Incident 1946 - Estimated Admissions 11.5m
Anna Neagle, stars as a WWII WREN who encounters Michael Wilding in a blacked-out Piccadilly during an air raid. They fall in love, get married and have a two-day honeymoon before she is sent to Singapore, torpedoed, presumed drowned – and he remarries while she is cast away on an unknown South Sea island for three years with a company of sailors. If you're wondering just how the two make it back together, you are not alone.
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41 The Jolson Story 1947 - Estimated Admissions 11.6m
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson. A little Jewish boy comes up against the will of his father to be in showbiz, becomes a star, falls in love with a dancer not of his religion and marries her. But in the end he chooses success on the stage over his wife. Larry Parks spent countless hours perfecting the Jolson mannerisms and lip-syncing the songs that Jolson recorded for the film and his performance was so good it earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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