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Released
1992 · FILM

Once Upon a Crime

“Monte Carlo can be hard on tourists. This weekend it's murder!”

Directed by
Eugene Levy
Written by
Rodolfo Sonego, Giorgio Arlorio
Runtime
94 min
ComedyCrimeMystery
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But when the dog escapes, the group becomes entangled in a series of complications as they attempt to locate it before reaching their destination.

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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 Patrick KennedyShot by Giuseppe RotunnoScored by Richard GibbsDesigned by Pier Luigi Basile

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$3.5M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$3.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • 7 Gauner und ein Dackelde
  • Es war einmal ein Mordde
  • Banco pour un crimefr
  • Sette criminali e un bassottoit

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