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Released
1952 · FILM

One Minute to Zero

“Produced at a cost of millions...to bring you A MILLION THRILLS!”

Directed by
Tay Garnett
Written by
Milton Krims, William Wister Haines
Runtime
105 min
DramaWar

Synopsis

An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Robert BelcherShot by William E SnyderScored by Victor Young

Box Office

1952 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$1.6M

Budget$2.2M
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Koreade
  • Corea, hora zeroes
  • Une minute avant l'heurefr
  • Operazione Zit

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