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Released
1956 · FILM

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

His loves...his world---both past and present---and the crisis they caused!

Directed by
Runtime
153 min
DramaRomanceWar

Synopsis

Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband who is haunted by memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with an Italian village girl named Maria that produced an illegitimate son he has never met. Pressured by his dissatisfied wife to obtain a higher‑paying job, Rath accepts a position as a public‑relations representative for television network president Ralph Hopkins. As he becomes entangled in toxic office politics, Tom must decide between advancing his career and preserving his family life.

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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 Dorothy SpencerShot by Charles G ClarkeScored by Bernard Herrmann

Box Office

1956 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.4× 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

$8.8M

Budget$2.6M
Worldwide gross$8.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Mann im grauen Flanellde
  • Man in The Gray Flannel Suiten
  • Man in the Grey Flannel Suiten
  • El hombre del traje grises
  • L'Homme au complet grisfr
  • L'uomo dal vestito grigioit

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