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Released
1960 · FILM

Flaming Star

“CHOOSE!... Between your white father and your Kiowa mother !”

Directed by
Don Siegel
Written by
Clair Huffaker, Nunnally Johnson
Runtime
92 min
Western

Synopsis

Sam Burton’s second wife is a member of the Kiowa tribe, making their son mixed‑race. When conflict erupts between white settlers and the native Kiowas, the Burton family finds its loyalties divided.

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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 Hugh S FowlerShot by Charles G ClarkeScored by Cyril J Mockridge

Box Office

1960 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$2.0M

Budget$1.7M
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Flammender Sternde
  • Estrella de Fuegoes
  • Les Rôdeurs de la plainefr
  • Stella di fuocoit

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