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Released
1980 · FILM

Wholly Moses!

The story of Herschel. He wanted to be Moses...but he didn't have the right connections.

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Written by
Runtime
103 min
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Sidney LevinShot by Frank StanleyScored by Patrick WilliamsDesigned by Dale Hennesy

Box Office

1980 · Box office

Grossed $14.2M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$14.2M

Worldwide gross$14.2M

Opening weekend: $3.6M 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.3M37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 608 theaters

Also known as

  • Oh, Moses!de
  • Santísimo Moiséses
  • Io, modestamente, Mosèit

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