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Released
1946 · FILM

Undercurrent

“An Irresistible Force That Draws a Man and Woman Together!”

Directed by
Vincente Minnelli
Written by
Edward Chodorov, Thelma Strabel
Runtime
116 min
DramaFilm-NoirThriller
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

After a swift engagement, a plain young woman, the daughter of a chemist, marries an industrialist, with little knowledge of his family or background. He refashions her into a refined member of high society, but grows furious whenever she inquires about Michael, his enigmatic and long-missing brother.

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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 Karl FreundScored by Herbert Stothart

Box Office

1946 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× 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

$4.3M

Budget$1.6M
Worldwide gross$4.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der unbekannte Geliebtede
  • Lame de fondfr
  • Tragico segretoit

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