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==Top-grossing films (U.S.)== The top ten 1927 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+ Highest-grossing films of 1927 |- ! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''1''' |''[[The King of Kings (1927 film)|The King of Kings]]'' | [[PathΓ© Exchange]] | $2,641,687<ref>{{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;"| '''2''' |''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | $1,974,000<ref name="wb">{{cite journal|first=H Mark |last=Glancy |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921β51: the William Schaefer ledger |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=15 |year=1995}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''3''' |''[[7th Heaven (1927 film)|7th Heaven]]'' | [[Fox Film Corporation|Fox Film]] | $1,750,000<ref name=Argus1944>{{cite news |author=Jones, Lon|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11816878 |title=Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?. |newspaper= [[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=March 4, 1944 |access-date=August 6, 2012 |page=3 Supplement: ''The Argus Weekend'' magazine |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''4''' |''[[The Gaucho]]'' | [[United Artists]] | $1,400,000<ref>{{cite book| last = Balio| first = Tino| author-link =| title = United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars| date = 2009| publisher = [[University of Wisconsin Press]]| location = [[Madison, Wisconsin]]| page=93| ISBN=978-0-2992-3014-2 }}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''5''' |''[[The Patent Leather Kid]]''<br>''[[Jesse James (1927 film)|Jesse James]]'' | [[First National Pictures|First National]]<br>[[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] | $1,200,000<ref name=Argus1944/><ref name="AmericanWestBook"> Karen R. Jones, ''American West: Competing Visions'', Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp. 250-251</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''6''' |''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' | Paramount | $1,100,000<ref name=SilentFilms>{{cite book|last=Reid|first=John Howard|year=2008 |title=Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide|isbn=978-1-4357-1073-3|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lj7u9SQmM7sC&dq=wings+%22rentals%22+1927&pg=PA303 303]}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''7''' |''[[My Best Girl]]'' | United Artists | $1,027,757<ref name=PickfordBook>{{cite book|first=Scott|last=Eyman|title= Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart|date=1990|isbn=1-55611-147-9|quote= The film had the solid success it deserved; in its premiere New York engagement, at the Rialto,''My Best Girl'' grossed $81,000 in its three week run, recouping a sixth of its production cost of $483,103 at just one theater. Its total domestic gross amounted to $1,027,757.}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''8''' |''[[Love (1927 American film)|Love]]'' | rowspan="2"|[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] | $946,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation|title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger|publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study|place=Los Angeles, California}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''9''' |''[[The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg]]'' | $894,000<ref name="Mannix"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''10''' |''[[Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans]]'' | Fox Film | $818,000<ref name=SpeedOfSoundBook>{{cite book|first=Scott|last=Eyman|title= The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930|date=1997|isbn=0-684-81162-6|quote=''Sunrise'' ended up amassing domestic rentals of $818,000.}}</ref> |}
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