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Released
1984 · FILM

The River Rat

After thirteen years in prison, Billy McCain thought he'd met up with everything, until he met up with his own daughter Jonsy.

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Written by
Runtime
94 min
AdventureCrimeDrama

Synopsis

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it...

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Steve MirkovichShot by Jan KiesserScored by Mike PostDesigned by John J Lloyd

Box Office

1984 · Box office

Grossed $1.1M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$1.1M

Worldwide gross$1.1M

Opening weekend: $441K 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $546K48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 316 theaters

Also known as

  • Nur der Tod ist umsonstde
  • La barca del infiernoes

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