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Released
1953 · FILM

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

“They're too wild for one world!”

Directed by
Charles Lamont
Written by
D D Beauchamp, John Grant
Runtime
77 min
ComedyFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket intended for Mars, but it instead lands in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. They are later coerced by bank robber Mugsy and his accomplice Harry to travel to Venus, where they discover a civilization composed entirely of women, with men having been banished from the planet.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Russell F SchoengarthShot by Clifford Stine

Box Office

1953 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.3M

Budget$762K
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Abbott y Costello van a Martees
  • Deux nigauds chez Vénusfr
  • Viaggio al pianeta Venereit

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