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#9,414 All-time worldwide
#30 1972 releases

Movie profile

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972 · 90 min · Madeleine Films

Comedy Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $4.3M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$481,600

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe 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 #9,414 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1972 releases #30 Release-year chart position of 52 titles Ranked against movies released in 1972. Franchise #1 The Tall Blond Man of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #3,660 Comedy of 4,840 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.

#9,411 Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! 2005 · $4.3M #9,412 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 · $4.3M #9,413 Once a Thief 1991 · $4.3M #9,423 Soul Survivors 2001 · $4.3M #9,424 Listen to Me 1989 · $4.3M #9,425 Voyagers 2021 · $4.3M

Quick answer

How did The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) perform at the box office?

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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $4.3M. In this database it currently ranks #9,414 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #30 among 1972 releases.

Worldwide gross
$4,300,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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 hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 6, 1972
Production
Madeleine Films, Gaumont, Les Productions de la Guéville
Countries
FR

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Studio / production companyMadeleine Films FranchiseThe Tall Blond Man Release year chart1972 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1972, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Mystery title from Madeleine Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $4.3M. For comparison, it currently sits #9,414 all-time in the current chart set and #30 among 1972 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.