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Released
1976 · FILM

The Missouri Breaks

A vengeful cattle rustler plots to take down a ruthless land baron by waging a secret war on his ranch, forcing the outlaw to face a deadly sharpshooter hired to stop him.

One steals. One kills. One dies.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
126 min
DramaWestern
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

After vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of cattle rustler Tom Logan's best friends, Logan's gang seeks revenge by buying a small farm adjacent to Braxton's ranch. They use the farm as a cover for their horse-stealing operation. Determined to halt the thefts, Braxton hires eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins systematically eliminating members of Logan's gang.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Dede AllenShot by Michael C ButlerScored by John WilliamsDesigned by Albert Brenner

Box Office

1976 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$14.0M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$14.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Duell am Missouride
  • Missouri Breaksfr
  • Missouriit

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