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#10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Adjusted gross: $909,060,000 Unadjusted gross: $184,925,486 Walt Disney's first cel-animated feature-length film, about the princess and the queen fearful of her beauty, is also the company's biggest hit in adjusted dollars. Link text -
#1 Gone with the Wind
Adjusted gross: $1,685,052,200 Unadjusted gross: $198,676,459 The story of Scarlett O'Hara, adapted from the award-winning novel and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, is deeply embedded in the American consciousness. Link text -
#6 The Ten Commandments
Adjusted gross: $1,092,540,000 Unadjusted gross: $65,500,000 The biblical epic has Charlton Heston in his most famous role as Moses. Walt Disney's first cel-animated feature-length film, about the princess and the queen fearful of her beauty, is also the company's biggest hit in adjusted dollars. Link text -
#3 The Sound of Music
Adjusted gross: $1,187,744,200 Unadjusted gross: $158,671,368 By far the most well-known and beloved musical film of all time, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Link text -
#8 Doctor Zhivago
Adjusted gross: $1,035,289,700 Unadjusted gross: $111,721,910 The David Lean-directed epic starring British icons Alec Guinness and Julie Christie tells the story of a romance set against the backdrop of World War I. Link text -
#9 The Exorcist
Adjusted gross: $922,397,100 Unadjusted gross: $232,906,145 The 1970s horror film about a young girl possessed is widely regarded as the best in the genre. And at the time it came out, William Friedkin's masterpiece was by far the most terrifying thing around. Link text -
#7 Jaws
Adjusted gross: $1,068,177,300 Unadjusted gross: $260,000,000 Steven Spielberg created the summer blockbuster with his thriller starring Richard Dreyfuss about the great white shark lurking just beneath. Link text -
#2 Star Wars
Adjusted gross: $1,485,517,400 Unadjusted gross: $460,998,007 Spielberg may have given rise to the modern blockbuster as we know it now, but George Lucas gave us the biggest blockbuster, and the most successful cinematic sci-fi series ever, which now continues under Disney with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Link text -
#4 E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Adjusted gross: $1,183,065,200 Unadjusted gross: $435,110,554 Spielberg's other biggest movie of all time, "E.T.," tells a coming-of-age story about a boy who happens to befriend an alien that's just landed in his neighborhood. Link text -
#5 Titanic
Adjusted gross: $1,129,857,100 Unadjusted gross: $658,672,302 "Titanic" was director James Cameron's first world-conquering smash, before "Avatar," and it launched the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Link text
