Widely misremembered as being a box-office bomb in its initial release, this movie was actually 1963's biggest money-maker, returning more than $22 million to Twentieth Century Fox. The problem was that, when all the dust settled, it had cost nearly twice what it grossed (reportedly over $43 million). It has variously been claimed that the movie broke even (made back what it cost) between its worldwide box-office take in 1966, when Fox sold ABC the broadcast rights for $5 million and in 1973, on one of its theatrical re-releases, it finally turned a profit.

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