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Released
1959 · FILM

Solomon and Sheba

“Only once in 3000 years... anything like...”

Directed by
King Vidor
Written by
Anthony Veiller, Paul Dudley
Runtime
139 min
DramaHistoryRomance

Synopsis

In a near‑death vision, King David sees his poet son Solomon succeeding him instead of the hot‑headed Adonijah. Angered by this revelation, Adonijah leaves the court and swears that he will become king. Other rulers fear that Solomon’s benevolent governance and interest in monotheism could endanger their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba then reaches an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.

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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 Otto LudwigShot by Freddie YoungScored by Mario Nascimbene

Box Office

1959 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.4× 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

$12.2M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$12.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Salomon und die Königin von Sabade
  • Salomón y la reina de Sabaes
  • Salomon et la Reine de Sabafr
  • Salomone e la regina di Sabait

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