Want to know the best J. Lee Thompson movies?  How about the worst J. Lee Thompson movies?  Curious about J. Lee Thompson box office grosses or which J. Lee Thompson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which J. Lee Thompson movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.

J. Lee Thompson (1914-2002) was an Oscar-nominated English director. Thompson was most famous for directing The Guns of Navarone and Cape Fear.  He ended his career by directing many movies with Charles Bronson.  His IMDb page shows 49 directing credits from 1950 to 1989. This page will rank J. Lee Thompson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.

J. Lee Thompson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1961	The Guns of Navarone (1961) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Director Nom
1964	What a Way To Go! (1964)
1962	Taras Bulba (1962)
1962	Cape Fear (1962) Director
1975	The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) Director
1972	Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
1969	MacKenna's Gold (1969)
1959	Tiger Bay (1959) Director
1963	Kings of the Sun (1963)
1959	North West Frontier (1959)
1965	John Golfarb Please Come Home (1965) Director
1969	The Chairman (1969)
1973	Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
1966	Eye of the Devil (1966)
1965	Return from the Ashes (1965) Director
1979	The Passage (1979) Director
1960	I Aim At The Stars (1960) Director
1985	King Solomon's Mines (1985)
1978	The Greek Tycoon (1978)
1981	Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
1974	Huckleberry Finn (1974) Director
1970	Brotherly Love/Country Dance (1970) Director
1984	The Evil That Men Do (1984)
1976	St. Ives (1976)
1986	Firewalker (1986)
1986	Murphy's Law (1986)
1968	Before Winter Comes (1968) Director
1984	The Ambassador (1984)
1980	Cabo Blanco (1980)
1983	10 to Midnight (1983)
1987	Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
1977	The White Buffalo (1977) Director
1988	Messenger of Death (1988)
1989	Kinjite (1989) Director

J. Lee Thompson Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

• Sort J. Lee Thompson movies by co-stars of her movies.
• Sort J. Lee Thompson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort J. Lee Thompson movies by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort J. Lee Thompson movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each J. Lee Thompson movie received and how many Oscar® wins each J. Lee Thompson movie won.
• Sort J. Lee Thompson movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

J. Lee Thompson Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Movie (Year)	UMR Co-Star Links	World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil)	S
Movie (Year)	UMR Co-Star Links	World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil)	S
The Guns of Navarone (1961) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Director Nom	Gregory Peck & David Niven	1,040.50
What a Way To Go! (1964)	Shirley MacLaine & Paul Newman	324.80

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