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Released
1985 · FILM

Death Wish 3

Vigilante architect Paul Kersey returns to New York and teams with a crooked police chief to eradicate a ruthless street gang terrorizing the city’s neighborhoods, risking his own life as he battles both criminals and corruption.

He's back in New York bringing justice to the streets...

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Runtime
90 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Paul Kersey, an architect and vigilante, returns to New York City and is recruited by a corrupt police chief to combat street crime committed by a large gang that is terrorizing the neighborhoods.

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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 Michael WinnerShot by John StanierScored by Jimmy PageDesigned by Peter Mullins

Box Office

1985 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$16.1M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$16.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Death Wish 3 - Die Rächer von New Yorkde
  • Death Wish IIIen
  • Le Justicier de New Yorkfr
  • Il giustiziere della notte 3it

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