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Released
1984 · FILM

The Pope of Greenwich Village

“Charlie and Paulie. Two dreamers fighting to get lucky.”

Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Written by
Vincent Patrick
Runtime
121 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

Charlie and his cousin Paulie plot to steal $150,000 to fund what they believe to be a guaranteed investment in a race horse, based on inside information Paulie possesses. Their robbery, however, leads to severe complications, as they come under the scrutiny of a local Mafia boss and a corrupt segment of the New York City police department.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Robert BrownShot by John BaileyScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Paul Sylbert

Box Office

1984 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$6.8M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$6.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Pate von Greenwich Villagede
  • Le Pape de Greenwich Villagefr
  • Il Papa del Greenwich Villageit

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