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Released
1982 · FILM

The Man from Snowy River

“The story of a boy suddenly alone in the world. The men who challenge him. And the girl who helps him become a man.”

Directed by
George Miller
Written by
A B Banjo Paterson, John Dixon
Runtime
104 min
AdventureDramaRomance

Synopsis

Jim Craig spent the first 18 years of his life on his father's farm in the mountains of Australia. After his father's death, he moves to the lowlands in an effort to earn money to revive the farm.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

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 Adrian CarrShot by Keith WagstaffScored by Bruce Rowland

Box Office

1982 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.9× 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

$20.7M

Budget$3.5M
Worldwide gross$20.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $694K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.5M — 7% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 158 theaters

Also known as

  • Snowy Riverde
  • El hombre de Río Nevadoes
  • L'Homme de la rivière d'argentfr
  • L'uomo del fiume nevosoit

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