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This is a list of American films released in 1969.
The highest-grossing American films released in 1969, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers, are as follows:[1]
Highest-grossing films of 1969
Rank |
Title |
Distributor |
Domestic gross
|
1
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
|
20th Century Fox
|
$102,308,900
|
2
|
The Love Bug
|
Walt Disney
|
$50,576,808
|
3
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
MGM
|
$44,785,053
|
4
|
Easy Rider
|
Columbia Pictures
|
$41,728,598
|
5
|
Hello, Dolly
|
20th Century Fox
|
$33,208,099
|
6
|
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
|
Columbia Pictures
|
$31,897,253
|
7
|
Paint Your Wagon
|
Paramount
|
$31,678,778
|
8
|
True Grit
|
Paramount
|
$31,132,592
|
9
|
Cactus Flower
|
Columbia Pictures
|
$25,889,208
|
10
|
Goodbye, Columbus
|
Paramount
|
$22,939,805
|
Opening
|
Title
|
Production company
|
Cast and crew
|
Ref.
|
J A N U A R Y
|
15
|
More Dead Than Alive
|
Aubrey Schenck Productions
|
Robert Sparr (director); Clint Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis
|
|
Riot
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Buzz Kulik (director); Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin
|
|
23
|
Some Girls Do
|
The Rank Organisation
|
Ralph Thomas (director); Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Lončar
|
|
27
|
The Extraordinary Seaman
|
John Frankenheimer Productions
|
John Frankenheimer (director); David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
|
|
F E B R U A R Y
|
5
|
The Wrecking Crew
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Phil Karlson (director); Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate
|
|
12
|
The Candy Man
|
Commonwealth United Entertainment
|
Herbert S. Greene (director); George Sanders, Leslie Parrish, Scott Brady
|
|
19
|
The Night of the Following Day
|
Gibraltar Productions
|
Hubert Cornfield (director); Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
|
|
M A R C H
|
5
|
The Big Bounce
|
Warner Bros.
|
Alex March (director); Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin
|
|
11
|
2000 Years Later
|
Sing Productions
|
Bert Tenzer (director); Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Horton, Pat Harrington Jr.
|
|
12
|
Where Eagles Dare
|
Winkast Film Productions
|
Brian G. Hutton (director); Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
|
|
13
|
Charro!
|
National General Pictures
|
Charles Marquis Warren (director); Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French
|
|
The Love Bug
|
Walt Disney Productions
|
Robert Stevenson (director); Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson
|
|
26
|
100 Rifles
|
20th Century Fox
|
Tom Gries (director); Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
|
|
27
|
Support Your Local Sheriff!
|
Cherokee Productions
|
Burt Kennedy (director); James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan
|
|
Opening
|
Title
|
Production company
|
Cast and crew
|
Ref.
|
A P R I L
|
1
|
Model Shop
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Jacques Demy (director); Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexis Smith
|
|
Sam Whiskey
|
Universal Pictures
|
Arnold Laven (director); Burt Reynolds, Diana Sands, Keenan Wynn
|
|
Sweet Charity
|
Universal Pictures
|
Bob Fosse (director); Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalbán
|
|
2
|
Angel in My Pocket
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Murray Schisgal (director); Andy Griffith, Lee Grant, Barbara Eden
|
|
3
|
Goodbye, Columbus
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Larry Peerce (director); Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman
|
|
9
|
The Wedding Party
|
Cinevista
|
Brian De Palma (director); Jennifer Salt, Brett Halsey, Bill Graham
|
|
16
|
Hook, Line & Sinker
|
Warner Bros.
|
George Marshall (director); Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Tina Louise
|
|
17
|
Salesman
|
Documentary Film Institute
|
Albert Maysles, David Maysles (directors); Paul Brennan, Carmen Brennan, Jack Brennan
|
|
24
|
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
|
United Artists
|
Mel Stuart (director); Doris Day, Guy Stockwell, David Janssen
|
|
30
|
The Big Cube
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Wesley Ruggles (director); Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Basehart
|
|
M A Y
|
1
|
The Mad Room
|
American International Pictures
|
Bernard Girard (director); Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Michael Constantine
|
|
6
|
Slaves
|
Avco Embassy Pictures
|
Herbert J. Biberman (director); Beverly Todd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Rosalind Cash
|
|
7
|
Sinful Davey
|
Warner Bros.
|
John Houston (director); John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Denholm Elliott
|
|
10
|
Mackenna's Gold
|
Columbia Pictures
|
J. Lee Thompson (director); Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv
|
|
14
|
Krakatoa, East of Java
|
Warner Bros.
|
Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Maximilian Schell, Daliah Lavi, Michael Forest
|
|
15
|
Nightmare in Wax
|
AIP
|
Henry Cass (director); Don Rickles, Tina Louise, Martha Hyer
|
|
25
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
United Artists
|
John Schlesinger (director); Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles
|
|
27
|
Popi
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Arthur Hiller (director); Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Lilia Skala
|
|
28
|
The April Fools
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Stuart Rosenberg (director); Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Sabrina Scharf
|
|
29
|
Carry On Camping
|
The Rank Organisation
|
Gerald Thomas (director); Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor
|
|
30
|
Che!
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Richard Fleischer (director); Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Senta Berger
|
|
J U N E
|
8
|
That Cold Day in the Park
|
Warner Bros.
|
Robert Altman (director); Sandy Dennis, Michael Murphy, Lynne Roth
|
|
11
|
The First Time
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Peter Deuel (director); Robert F. Simon, Beverly Garland, Linda Evans
|
|
12
|
Blue Movie
|
Colorama Films
|
Andy Warhol (director); Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Geri Miller
|
|
13
|
True Grit
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Henry Hathaway (director); John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell
|
|
18
|
Eye of the Cat
|
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
|
David Lowell Rich (director); Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eli Wallach
|
|
The Wild Bunch
|
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
|
Sam Peckinpah (director); William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates
|
|
19
|
Last Summer
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Frank Perry (director); Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns
|
|
24
|
Chastity
|
Goldwyn
|
Anna Strasberg (director); Cher, Richard S. Castellano, Jack Albertson
|
|
25
|
The Bridge at Remagen
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|
John Guillermin (director); George Segal, Robert Vaughn, E.G. Marshall
|
|
26
|
The Chairman
|
Columbia Pictures
|
J. Lee Thompson (director); Sidney Poitier, Henry Silva, Barbara Jefford
|
|
27
|
Hello Down There
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Jack Arnold (director); Tony Randall, Julie Adams, Richard Carlson
|
|
Opening
|
Title
|
Production company
|
Cast and crew
|
Ref.
|
J U L Y
|
7
|
How to Commit Marriage
|
Avco Embassy Pictures
|
Norman Panama (director); Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman
|
|
10
|
Putney Swope
|
Cinema V
|
Robert Downey Sr. (director); Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield
|
|
11
|
The Lost Man
|
Universal Pictures
|
Robert Alan Aurthur (director); Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr.
|
|
13
|
Me, Natalie
|
National General Pictures
|
Fred Coe (director); Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam
|
|
14
|
Easy Rider
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Dennis Hopper (director); Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
|
|
18
|
The Appointment
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|
Sidney Lumet (director); Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Lotte Lenya
|
|
19
|
The Mighty Gorga
|
Creative Film Enterprises
|
David L. Hewitt (director); Anthony Eisley, Megan Timothy, Scott Brady
|
|
A U G U S T
|
6
|
The Learning Tree
|
Warner Bros.
|
Gordon Parks (director); Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
|
|
9
|
The Love God?
|
Universal Pictures
|
Nat Hiken (director); Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Edmond O'Brien
|
|
Take the Money and Run
|
Palomar Pictures
|
Woody Allen (director); Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire
|
|
18
|
Alice's Restaurant
|
United Artists
|
Arthur Penn (director); Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick
|
|
20
|
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
|
ABC Pictures
|
Lee H. Katzin (director); Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
|
|
27
|
Medium Cool
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Haskell Wexler (director); Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
|
|
28
|
The Gypsy Moths
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|
John Frankenheimer (director); Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman
|
|
S E P T E M B E R
|
3
|
The Trouble with Girls
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|
Peter Tewksbury (director); Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe
|
|
5
|
The Valley of Gwangi
|
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
|
Jim O'Connolly (director); James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson
|
|
The Bushbaby
|
Twentieth Century-Fox
|
John Trent (director); Margaret Brooks, Louis Gossett Jr., Donald Houston
|
|
17
|
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Paul Mazursky (director); Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould
|
|
29
|
De Sade
|
American International Pictures
|
Cy Endfield (director); Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer
|
|
Opening
|
Title
|
Production company
|
Cast and crew
|
Ref.
|
O C T O B E R
|
4
|
Hail, Hero!
|
Cinema Center Films
|
David Miller (director); Michael Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright
|
|
5
|
A Walk with Love and Death
|
20th Century Fox
|
John Huston (director); Anjelica Huston, Assi Dayan, Anthony Higgins
|
|
6
|
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Irving Lerner (director); Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport
|
|
8
|
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
|
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
|
Burt Kennedy (director); Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine
|
|
The Monitors
|
Bell and Howell
|
Jack Shea (director); Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Larry Storch
|
|
12
|
The Madwoman of Chaillot
|
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
|
Bryan Forbes (director); Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner
|
|
15
|
Paint Your Wagon
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Joshua Logan (director); Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg
|
|
22
|
Marlowe
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|
Paul Bogart (director); James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor
|
|
The Sterile Cuckoo
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Alan J. Pakula (director); Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire
|
|
24
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
|
20th Century Fox
|
George Roy Hill (director); Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
|
|
N O V E M B E R
|
6
|
Downhill Racer
|
Paramount Pictures
|
Michael Ritchie (director); Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
|
|
10
|
Change of Habit
|
Universal Pictures
|
William A. Graham (director); Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair
|
|
Flareup
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|
James Neilson (director); Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew
|
|
Marooned
|
Columbia Pictures
|
John Sturges (director); Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen
|
|
Don't Drink the Water
|
Avco Embassy Pictures
|
Howard Morris (director); Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell
|
|
15
|
The Arrangement
|
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
|
Elia Kazan (director); Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr
|
|
19
|
The Comic
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Carl Reiner (director); Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney
|
|
26
|
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
|
American International Pictures
|
Robert Thom (director); Jennifer Jones, Jordan Christopher, Roddy McDowall
|
|
27
|
The Undefeated
|
20th Century Fox
|
Andrew V. McLaglen (director); John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar
|
|
D E C E M B E R
|
4
|
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
|
Cinema Center Films
|
Bill Melendez (director); Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger
|
|
10
|
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
|
ABC Pictures
|
Sydney Pollack (director); Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
|
|
14
|
John and Mary
|
20th Century Fox
|
Peter Yates (director); Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
|
|
Generation
|
National General Pictures
|
George Schaefer (director); David Janssen, Kim Darby, Pete Duel
|
|
16
|
Cactus Flower
|
Columbia Pictures
|
Gene Saks (director); Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
|
|
Gaily, Gaily
|
Universal Pictures
|
Norman Jewison (director); Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith
|
|
Hello, Dolly!
|
20th Century Fox
|
Gene Kelly (director); Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
|
|
18
|
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
|
United Artists
|
Peter R. Hunt (director); George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
|
|
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
|
Universal Pictures
|
Abraham Polonsky (director); Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake
|
|
19
|
Topaz
|
Universal Pictures
|
Alfred Hitchcock (director); Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Forsythe
|
|
24
|
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
|
Buena Vista Distribution
|
Robert Butler (director); Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn
|
|
25
|
The Reivers
|
Cinema Center Films
|
Mark Rydell (director); Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel
|
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American films of the 1960s |
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