What was the budget on this film?

I'm guessing about $15M. Clint probably got $5M of it.

Are you referring to the budget or the gross? Because why would Eastwood have received one-third of his film's budget?

Tightrope grossed $48.1M domestically and returned $22.5M (about 47% of the domestic gross) to Warner Brothers in domestic rentals.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088272/business

I'm unsure of the budget, but I'm virtually sure that it was less than $15M. Eastwood filmed the movie back in 1983, and he was a frugal filmmaker who has rarely shot many takes, preferring spontaneity and freshness. If I had to wager a guess (and it is a guess), I'd say that Tightrope's budget ran somewhere between $6M and $8M. Bronco Billy, which Eastwood had filmed four years earlier, cost $5M, and Bird, the meticulous period piece that Eastwood would create four years after Tightrope, cost a little less than $10M. He shot Tightrope on location in New Orleans, so he didn't need to have many (if any) sets constructed.

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