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#11,963 All-time worldwide
#33 1954 releases

Movie profile

The Fast and the Furious

1954 · 76 min · Palo Alto Productions

Action Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $250,000
Budget $50,000
Gross minus budget $200,000
ROI 5.00x

Domestic gross

$125,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$125,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$22,500

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Fast and the Furious 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 #11,963 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1954 releases #33 Release-year chart position of 38 titles Ranked against movies released in 1954. Studio / company #2 Palo Alto Productions of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Palo Alto Productions movie set. Primary genre #2,846 Action of 2,939 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.

#11,960 Jhuk Gaya Aasman 1968 · $251,000 #11,961 Camilla 1994 · $250,993 #11,962 Dog Park 1998 · $250,147 #11,968 Los sueños húmedos de Patrizia 1982 · $249,562 #11,969 I Don't Want to Talk About It 1993 · $249,530 #11,970 La vuelta del Coyote 1998 · $248,623

Quick answer

How did The Fast and the Furious (1954) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Fast and the Furious (1954) earned a reported $250.0K worldwide against a reported $50.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $200.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.00x. In this database it currently ranks #11,963 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #33 among 1954 releases.

Worldwide gross
$250,000
Budget
$50,000
Gross minus budget
$200,000
ROI
5.00x
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

A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 1, 1954
Production
Palo Alto Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPalo Alto Productions Release year chart1954 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1954, The Fast and the Furious is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Drama title from Palo Alto Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $250,000, reported production budget is $50,000, gross-minus-budget is $200,000, ROI is 5.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,963 all-time in the current chart set and #33 among 1954 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.