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Released
1966 · FILM

Harper

“Harper takes a case - and the payoff is murder.”

Directed by
Jack Smight
Written by
William Goldman, Ross Macdonald
Runtime
121 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Harper is a cynical private investigator in the tradition of Humphrey Bogart's hard-boiled detectives. He is hired by Bogie's Baby to locate her missing husband, and in the course of the investigation becomes entangled with a variety of unsavory characters and an illegal alien smuggling operation.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Stefan ArnstenShot by Conrad L HallScored by Johnny Mandel

Box Office

1966 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.4× 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$3.5M
Worldwide gross$12.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ein Fall für Harperde
  • Détective privéfr
  • Detective's Storyit

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