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Released
1974 · FILM

The Black Windmill

The ultimate exercise in controlled terror.

Directed by
Runtime
106 min
ActionCrimeThriller

Synopsis

When a British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds, the agent discovers he cannot rely on the people he believed were allies. Determined to rescue his child, he takes matters into his own hands and sets out to track down the kidnappers.

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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 Antony GibbsShot by Ousama RawiScored by Roy Budd

Box Office

1974 · Box office

Produced on a $1.5M budget

Production budget

$1.5M

Also known as

  • Die schwarze Windmühlede
  • El molino negroes
  • Contre une poignée de diamantsfr
  • Il caso Drabbleit

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