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Released
1957 · FILM

Boy on a Dolphin

An adventurous love story that will live 'til the seas run dry!

Directed by
Runtime
111 min
AdventureDramaRomance

Synopsis

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 William MaceShot by Milton R KrasnerScored by Hugo Friedhofer

Also known as

  • Der Knabe auf dem Delphinde
  • La sirena y el delfínes
  • Ombres sous la merfr
  • Il ragazzo sul delfinoit

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