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Released
1961 · FILM

Parrish

Looking for something. Wanting everything. Troy Donahue brings new passion to the screen as Parrish.

Directed by
Runtime
138 min
Drama

Synopsis

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

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 Owen MarksShot by Harry Stradling SrScored by Max Steiner

Box Office

1961 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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$1.5M
Worldwide gross$4.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Sein Name war Parrishde
  • La Soif de la jeunessefr
  • Vento caldoit

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