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Released
1984 · FILM

The Evil That Men Do

“Most criminals answer to the law. The world's most savage executioner must answer to Bronson.”

Directed by
J Lee Thompson
Written by
R Lance Hill, John Crowther
Runtime
90 min
ActionDramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A former assassin, Charles Bronson, comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend, who was killed by a sadistic torturer named Joseph Maher. Maher works for an oppressive foreign dictatorship.

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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 Peter Lee ThompsonShot by Xavier CruzScored by Ken Thorne

Box Office

1984 · 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

$13.1M

Budget$4.6M
Worldwide gross$13.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.5M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.9M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,464 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Liquidatorde
  • L'Enfer de la violencefr
  • Professione giustiziereit

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