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==Top-grossing films (U.S.)== The top ten 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+ Highest-grossing films of 1924 |- ! Rank !! Title !! Studio !! Domestic rentals |- !style="text-align:center;"| '''1''' |''{{sort|sea|[[The Sea Hawk (1924 film)|The Sea Hawk]]}}'' |[[First National Pictures|First National]] | $2,000,000<ref name="quig">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up|publisher=[[Quigley Publishing Company]]|title=The All Time Best Sellers|work=[[International Motion Picture Almanac]] 1937–38 |page=942|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''2''' |''[[Girl Shy]]'' |[[Pathé Exchange]] |$1,550,000<ref name="quig"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''3''' |''[[Secrets (1924 film)|Secrets]]'' | First National |$1,500,000<ref name="quig"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''4''' |''{{sort|thief|[[The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)|The Thief of Bagdad]]}}'' | [[United Artists]] |$1,490,419<ref name=FoxFilmBook>{{cite book|first=Aubrey|last=Solomon|title= The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography|date=2014|isbn=978-0-7864-8160-6|quote= This effort returned some startlingly good results on several pictures. United Artists' ''The Thief of Bagdad'' (1924), starring Douglas Fairbanks, performed exceptionally well, with $1,490,419 in domestic rentals, but had a high production cost of $1,135,654.}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''5''' |''[[Hot Water (1924 film)|Hot Water]]'' | Pathé Exchange |$1,350,000<ref name="quig"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''6''' |''[[Feet of Clay (1924 film)|Feet of Clay]]'' |rowspan="2"|[[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] | $904,383<ref name=birchard>{{cite book|last=Birchard|first=Robert S.|date=2004|title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813123240}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''7''' |''[[Triumph (1924 film)|Triumph]]'' | $678,526<ref name=birchard/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''8''' |''[[He Who Gets Slapped (film)|He Who Gets Slapped]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | $493,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''9''' |''[[Beau Brummel (1924 film)|Beau Brummel]]'' |[[Warner Bros.]] | $453,000<ref name="wb">{{cite journal|first=H Mark |last=Glancy |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=15 |year=1995|pages=55–73 |doi=10.1080/01439689500260031 }}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''10''' |''[[His Hour]]'' | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $418,000<ref name="Mannix"/> |}
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