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Released
1992 · FILM

Diggstown

“Where the pros meet the cons.”

Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Written by
Leonard Wise, Steven Mckay
Runtime
98 min
DramaSport

Synopsis

Gabriel Caine is released from prison and immediately enters into a high-stakes bet with a businessman who controls much of Diggstown, a town known for its passion for boxing. The challenge is for Gabe to find a boxer capable of defeating ten men from Diggstown within 24 hours, each fight taking place in a boxing ring. He identifies Roy "Honey" Palmer as the man for the job, though at 48 years old, many believe he is too old for such a task.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Don ZimmermanShot by Gerry FisherScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Stephen Hendrickson

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$4.8M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$4.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.5M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $2.2M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 733 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Superfaustde
  • Ihr größter Coupde
  • El golpe perfectoes
  • La Nuit du défifr
  • La notte dell'imbroglioit

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