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Released
1942 · FILM

Saboteur

Wrongly accused aircraft worker Barry Kane races across America to expose the true saboteur and prove his innocence before the authorities close in.

“Unmasking the man behind your back!”

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison
Runtime
109 min
DramaThrillerWar
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Barry Kane, an aircraft factory worker, flees across the United States after being wrongly accused of starting the fire that resulted in the death of his best friend.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Otto LudwigShot by Joseph A ValentineScored by Frank Skinner

Box Office

1942 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× 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

$1.3M

Budget$780K
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Saboteurede
  • Cinquième colonnefr
  • Sabotatoriit

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