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Released
1972 · FILM

Super Fly

Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man!

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
91 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Priest, a drug kingpin based in New York City, creates a plan to exit the business and secure a large sum of money for retirement. However, his scheme is disrupted when a street-level dealer betrays him by informing the police.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Bob BradyShot by James SignorelliScored by Curtis Mayfield

Box Office

1972 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 60× 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

$30.0M

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$30.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Superflyde
  • Superflyes
  • Superflyfr

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