Box Office Performance
This film was enormously popular with audiences, taking in $12 million at the box office ($84 million in 2011 dollars, adjusted for inflation), making it the top moneymaker for 1954 by a wide margin. The second highest moneymaker of that year, The Caine Mutiny, earned $8.7 million.
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