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Released
1991 · FILM

Guilty by Suspicion

A renowned film director is blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his alleged communist ties and must fight to clear his name and reclaim his career in the cutthroat world of 1950s Hollywood.

“All it took was a whisper”

Directed by
Irwin Winkler
Written by
Irwin Winkler
Runtime
100 min
Drama

Synopsis

Due to his alleged association with communist organizations, film director David Merrill is prohibited from working in Hollywood. He chooses to challenge the restriction, encountering various obstacles along the way.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Priscilla Nedd FriendlyShot by Michael BallhausScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Leslie Dilley

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$9.5M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$9.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.3M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $3.1M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 817 theaters

Also known as

  • Schuldig bei Verdachtde
  • La Liste noirefr
  • Indiziato di reatoit

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