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Released
1974 · FILM

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

A seasoned bank robber teams up with a brash young thief to reunite his old crew and pull off one last impossible heist—while the very gang they once led hunts them down, threatening to ruin everything.

“Thunderbolt… the man with the reputation. Lightfoot… the kid who's about to make one!”

Directed by
Michael Cimino, Michael Cimino Nm0001047
Written by
Michael Cimino, Michael Cimino Nm0001047
Runtime
116 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

A bank robber, with the assistance of an irreverent young sidekick, reunites his old gang to plan and execute a daring new heist.

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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 Ferris WebsterShot by Frank StanleyScored by Dee Barton

Box Office

1974 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.3× 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

$25.0M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$25.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Den Letzten beißen die Hundede
  • Die Letzten beißen die Hundede
  • Le Canardeurfr
  • Una calibro 20 per lo specialistait

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