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Released
1979 · FILM

The Wanderers

A young Italian-American gang leader in 1960s Bronx must prove his strength and loyalty to protect his crew's dominance amid violent rivalries and the chaos of adolescence.

It was The Wanderers against the world ... and the world never had a chance!

Directed by
Runtime
117 min
CrimeDramaRomance

Synopsis

In the 1960s Bronx, youth gangs dominate the streets, shaping a world where the joys and struggles of adolescence unfold. Philip Kaufman adapts Richard Price's novel, offering his interpretation of the history of the Italian-American gang known as "The Wanderers."

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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 Stuart H PappeShot by Michael ChapmanDesigned by John Jay Moore

Box Office

1979 · Box office

Grossed $23.0M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$23.0M

Worldwide gross$23.0M

Re-release box office

20165 theaters
$21K($29K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • The Wanderers: Terror in der Bronxde
  • Les Seigneursfr

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