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Released
1990 · FILM

White Hunter Black Heart

A renowned filmmaker in Africa becomes consumed with a personal quest to hunt a legendary elephant, risking his sanity, his crew, and the very soul of his film.

“An adventure in obsession...”

Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Written by
Peter Viertel, James Bridges
Runtime
112 min
AdventureDrama

Synopsis

Filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but frequently interrupts production to go on hunting expeditions for elephants and other game, causing frustration among his cast and crew. Over time, he becomes fixated on tracking down and killing a particular elephant.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Joel CoxShot by Jack N GreenScored by Lennie NiehausDesigned by John Graysmark

Box Office

1990 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$2.3M

Budget$24.0M
Worldwide gross$2.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Weißer Jäger, Schwarzes Herzde
  • Cazador blanco, corazón negroes
  • Chasseur blanc, cœur noirfr
  • Cacciatore bianco, cuore neroit

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