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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1967 · directed by David Swift · 121 min
22,523 feet · Prominence
1,954th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw43

Lifetime worldwide gross $3m, re-releases included; about $25m in 2026 money.

Rank5,588 of 11,051In 196728 of 38

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise93

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics93 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy33

Judged directly: Musical adaptation, stage overshadows film.

Verdict33 of 100IMDb7.2 from 5kWikipedia4k views a monthAge59 years

Scored beside it · 2,242 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 43 praise 93 legacy 33averages 56, placing it at22,523 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Michele Lee18,047 ft