The Anniversary You Can’t Refuse: 40 Things You Didn’t Know About The Godfather

According to Harlen Lebo’s The Godfather Legacy, “by 1972, when The Godfather became box office champion, only two other films had earnings that approached it: Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music … In the twenty years that followed The Godfather, fifty-eight movies would surpass it in earnings.” Or as producer Al Ruddy put it, “The Godfather brought in the era of the blockbusters, where they’re looking for the $100 million movie, the home run, the tent-pole attraction to build a schedule on. This had never happened before.”