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Released
1995 · FILM

Cutthroat Island

Pirate captain Morgan Adams must outwit her murderous uncle, fend off a mutinous crew, and evade the British Crown while racing to assemble a treasure map before it’s too late.

Be bold. Be brave. Be prepared.

Directed by
Runtime
124 min
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

Morgan Adams and her enslaved companion, William Shaw, are on a mission to retrieve the three pieces of a treasure map. The final piece is in the possession of her uncle, Dawg, a murderer. Her crew doubts her leadership, and she must succeed in her quest before they turn against her in a mutiny. Her efforts are further complicated by the British crown's attempts to stop her pirate raids.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Derek BrechinShot by Peter LevyScored by John DebneyDesigned by Norman Garwood

Box Office

1995 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$16.0M

Budget$102.0M
Worldwide gross$16.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.0M 63% of worldwide · International: $6.0M (37%)

Also known as

  • Die Piratenbrautde
  • La isla de las cabezas cortadases
  • L'Île aux piratesfr
  • Corsariit

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