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#9,750 All-time worldwide
#34 1973 releases

Movie profile

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1973 · 104 min · Bud Yorkin Productions

Romance Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.4M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$380,800

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Thief Who Came to Dinner 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 #9,750 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1973 releases #34 Release-year chart position of 68 titles Ranked against movies released in 1973. Primary genre #1,888 Romance of 2,607 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.

#9,747 Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond 2020 · $3.4M #9,748 3-Iron 2004 · $3.4M #9,749 Spiritual Trinity 1991 · $3.4M #9,762 Next Stop Wonderland 1998 · $3.4M #9,763 Big Shots 1987 · $3.4M #9,764 Angelique and the Sultan 1968 · $3.4M

Quick answer

How did The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) perform at the box office?

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The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $3.4M. In this database it currently ranks #9,750 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #34 among 1973 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,400,000
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 computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 1, 1973
Production
Bud Yorkin Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures, Tandem Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBud Yorkin Productions Release year chart1973 box office Genre chartRomance Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1973, The Thief Who Came to Dinner is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Comedy title from Bud Yorkin Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.4M. For comparison, it currently sits #9,750 all-time in the current chart set and #34 among 1973 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.