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#9,172 All-time worldwide
#82 1981 releases

Movie profile

Death Hunt

1981 · 97 min · Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Adventure Western
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.0M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.0M
ROI 0.50x

Domestic gross

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$560,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Death Hunt ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #9,172 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1981 releases #82 Release-year chart position of 138 titles Ranked against movies released in 1981. Studio / company #20 Orange Sky Golden Harvest of 30 titles Position inside the mapped Orange Sky Golden Harvest movie set. Primary genre #1,804 Adventure of 2,138 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Death Hunt (1981) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Death Hunt (1981) earned a reported $5.0M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.50x. In this database it currently ranks #9,172 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #82 among 1981 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,000,000
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,000,000
ROI
0.50x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 15, 1981
Production
Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Northshore Investments
Countries
HK, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyOrange Sky Golden Harvest Release year chart1981 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartWestern

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1981, Death Hunt is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Western title from Orange Sky Golden Harvest. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.0M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.0M, ROI is 0.50x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,172 all-time in the current chart set and #82 among 1981 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.