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Released
1984 · FILM

The Guardian

John Mack is going to protect you . . . whether you want him to or not.

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Runtime
105 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

When a resident of a New York apartment building is shot during a burglary, the other residents are deeply unsettled. In response, they hire a security expert to patrol the building, though he appears somewhat overly dedicated to his duties.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Edward M AbromsShot by Richard CiupkaScored by Robert O RaglandDesigned by Trevor Williams

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