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Released
1987 · FILM

The Three Kings

Directed by
Runtime
96 min
FamilyFantasyDrama

Synopsis

The made-for-TV film features Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Stan Shaw as three patients at a mental institution in the Los Angeles area. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio develops the delusion that they are the Biblical figures on a quest to find Baby Jesus. As TV cameras capture the events, the three men sneak out of the asylum on camels and into the streets of Los Angeles. By the film's conclusion, the escapees provide a Christmas miracle—for a group of homeless people on the city's outskirts.

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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 Geoffrey RowlandShot by Johnny E JensenScored by William Goldstein

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