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Released
1942 · FILM

Now, Voyager

A stifled young woman battles her oppressive mother and a looming nervous collapse, seeking personal freedom that hinges on the daring romance she discovers aboard a transatlantic cruise.

“It happens in the best of families. But you'd never think it could happen to her!”

Directed by
Irving Rapper
Written by
Casey Robinson, Olive Higgins Prouty
Runtime
117 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A woman experiences a nervous breakdown and a suffocating relationship with her mother before finding liberation through the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Warren LowShot by Sol PolitoScored by Max Steiner

Box Office

1942 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× 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

$4.2M

Budget$877K
Worldwide gross$4.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Reise aus der Vergangenheitde
  • La extraña pasajeraes
  • Une femme cherche son destinfr
  • Perdutamente tuait

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