The Nth Degree

There's a difference between "six" and "sixth", the difference between "six days" and "the sixth day". Counting numbers are called "cardinals" and ordering numbers are called "ordinals". In this list, we look at some movie titles that include an ordinal number. In some cases, it's hard to judge exactly how the number is being used, but let's say an ordinal usage includes telephone numbers, addresses, floors in a building, flight numbers, highway designators, room numbers, and so on.

• The First Deadly Sin
• The Third Man
• Born on the Fourth of July
• The Fifth Element
• The Sixth Sense
• The Seventh Seal (Care for a game of chess?)
• Agent 8 3/4, (Dirke Bogarde)
• The Ninth Directive
• Tenth Avenue Angel
• Riot in Cell Block 11
• The Thirteenth Juror
• Saturday the 14th (Richard Benjamin)
• The Night of January 16th
• The Eighteenth Angel
• Twentieth Century
• Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
• Catch 22
• Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Nathan Lane)
• Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
• The Twenty-Fifth Hour
• The 27th Day
• 29th Street (New Yorker wins the lottery)
• August 32nd on Earth (a movie from Quebec, set in Utah)
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Private Hell 36
• To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Peter Gallagher)
• Forty-Second Street
• The Mayor of 44th Street
• The Forty Ninth Parallel (Leslie Howard)
• Formula 51 (Samuel Jackson)
• Fifty-Second Street (ZaSu Pitts)
• Passenger 57;
• Psyche 59
• Highway 61;
• Private Detective 62;
• Roadhouse 66
• The Fighting 69th (Jimmy Cagney)
• The Eighty-First Blow (WWII)
• The House on 92nd Street
• FBI Code 98
• Car 99
• Pickup on 101;
• Tragedy of Flight 103;
• PT 109;
• Across 110th Street (Anthony Quinn)
• O.S.S. 117 Secret Agent
• Paragraph 175
• One Eight Seven (the reference is to the section of the California penal code dealing with murder; Samuel L Jackson);
• Black Sea 213
• Corvette K 225
• RKO 281 (the making of "Citizen Kane");
• Hijacked: Flight 285
• Highway 301
• 301/302 (about adjoining apartments);
• Stop Train 349 (Jose Ferrer)
• Badge 373 (Robert Duvall);
• 376-EVIL;
• The Disappearance of Flight 412;
• The Girl in 419;
• Murder on Flight 502;
• U-571;
• 633 Squadron (Cliff Robertson)
• Code 645
• State Department - File 649
• 711 Ocean Drive (Edmund O'Brien)
• Convict 762;
• Miracle on Interstate 880
• Dial 1119;
• Murder at 1600;
• Cell 2455 Death Row
• The Last of the Mohicans

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