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Released
1935 · FILM

Top Hat

A charismatic American dancer in London must woo a sophisticated socialite while untangling a case of mistaken identity that threatens both his career and their budding romance.

“They're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again!”

Directed by
Mark Sandrich
Written by
Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott
Color
Black & White
Runtime
99 min
ComedyMusicalRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Jerry Travers, a showman working for producer Horace Hardwick in London, performs new dance steps late one night in Hardwick's hotel room. The noise disturbs Dale Tremont, who is staying in the room below. She goes upstairs to confront him, and the two quickly feel an attraction. However, complications arise when Dale mistakenly believes Jerry to be Horace.

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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 William HamiltonShot by David Abel

Box Office

1935 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.3× 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

$3.2M

Budget$609K
Worldwide gross$3.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ich tanz mich in dein Herz hineinde
  • Ich tanz' mich in dein Herz hineinde
  • Sombrero de copaes
  • Le Danseur du dessusfr
  • Cappello a cilindroit

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