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Released
1955 · FILM

Guys and Dolls

A charismatic gambler bets he can whisk a prim missionary away to Havana, only to find his heart on the line as romance blossoms and a shady scheme to fund a high‑stakes craps game threatens to ruin them both.

It's a living breathing doll of a musical!

Runtime
149 min
ComedyCrimeMusical
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Daniel MandellShot by Harry Stradling SrScored by Frank LoesserDesigned by Oliver Smith

Box Office

1955 · 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

$6.9M

Budget$5.5M
Worldwide gross$6.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Schwere Jungen - leichte Mädchende
  • Schwere Jungs - leichte Mädchende
  • Blanches colombes et vilains messieursfr
  • Bulli e pupeit

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