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#10,118 All-time worldwide
#8 1938 releases

Movie profile

The Citadel

1938 · 110 min · Box Office Data

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Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.6M
Budget $1.0M
Gross minus budget $1.6M
ROI 2.57x

Domestic gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$290,976

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Citadel 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 #10,118 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1938 releases #8 Release-year chart position of 17 titles Ranked against movies released in 1938.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The Citadel (1938) perform at the box office?

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The Citadel (1938) earned a reported $2.6M worldwide against a reported $1.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.57x. In this database it currently ranks #10,118 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #8 among 1938 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,598,000
Budget
$1,012,000
Gross minus budget
$1,586,000
ROI
2.57x
Source: FilmDB. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1938, The Citadel is positioned in this dataset as a movie title. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.6M, reported production budget is $1.0M, gross-minus-budget is $1.6M, ROI is 2.57x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,118 all-time in the current chart set and #8 among 1938 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.