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Released
1982 · FILM

Hanky Panky

“When you're wanted for a murder you didn't commit, chased for secrets you didn't steal, and running from people who want to kill you, the worst mistake you can make is falling in love...”

Directed by
Sidney Poitier
Written by
Henry Rosenbaum, David Taylor
Runtime
110 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

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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 Harry KellerShot by Arthur J OrnitzScored by Tom ScottDesigned by Ben Edwards

Box Office

1982 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$9.0M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$9.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.6M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.8M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,238 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Geisterflieger Hanky Pankyde
  • La Folie aux troussesfr

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