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Released
1975 · FILM

Dolemite

“With his All-Girl Army of Kung Fu Killers!”

Directed by
D Urville Martin
Written by
Jerry Jones, Rudy Ray Moore
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
90 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Dolemite is a pimp who was framed by Willie Greene and the police, who planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk, leading to a 20-year prison sentence. Later, Queen B and a warden conspire to get him out of jail and expose Willie Greene and Mitchell for their role in his wrongful conviction.

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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

Shot by Nicholas Josef Von SternbergScored by Arthur Wright

Box Office

1975 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 100× 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

$12.0M

Budget$120K
Worldwide gross$12.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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