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Released
1957 · FILM

Legend of the Lost

“Wayne Tangles with Loren...In the Adventure that's Hotter than 1000 Suns!”

Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Written by
Robert Presnell Jr, Ben Hecht
Runtime
109 min
AdventureDrama

Synopsis

Joe January, described as an American ne’er‑do‑well, is employed to accompany Paul Bonnard on a desert expedition aimed at locating treasure.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

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 Bert BatesShot by Jack CardiffScored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Box Office

1957 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× 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

$2.2M

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Stadt der Verlorenende
  • Arenas de muertees
  • La Cité disparuefr
  • Timbuctùit

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