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Released
1943 · FILM

Action in the North Atlantic

Warner Bros. thunderous story of the men of the merchant marine!

Directed by
Runtime
126 min
DramaWar

Synopsis

In *Casablanca* (1942), Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are tasked with delivering a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the convoy is attacked by a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis must navigate through perilous waters to avoid Nazi naval forces. Despite the extreme dangers of their mission across the Atlantic, they remain driven by the desire to retaliate against the Germans, who had previously sunk one of their ships.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 George AmyShot by Ted D MccordScored by Adolph Deutsch

Box Office

1943 · 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

$3.5M

Budget$2.2M
Worldwide gross$3.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Einsatz im Nordatlantikde
  • Acción en el Atlántico Nortees
  • Convoi vers la Russiefr
  • Convoglio verso l'ignotoit

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