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Released
1983 · FILM

The Star Chamber

“They meet. They judge. They execute.”

Directed by
Peter Hyams
Written by
Roderick Taylor, Peter Hyams
Runtime
105 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 James MitchellShot by Richard N HannahScored by Michael SmallDesigned by Bill Malley

Box Office

1983 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$5.6M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$5.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.0M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.0M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 796 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein Richter sieht rotde
  • Los jueces de la leyes
  • La Nuit des jugesfr
  • Condannato a morte per mancanza di indiziit

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