From the February 27, 2022, Parade Magazine by Mara Reunstein.
Some of the questions that arose during the filming of this movie classic released fifty years ago were:
The cast is all wrong.
The tone is too somber.
It needs to be shorter.
Does it have to be set in the 1940s?
Those were just some of the questions Paramount Pictures executives had about the adaptation of Mario Puzo's gangster movie about a powerful Italian American family as it lumbered to its March 1972 release.
Director Francis Ford Coppola, who had co-written the big war biopic "Patton" after Elia Kazan and Arthur Penn turned it down.
Today Coppola's "The Godfather" is considered a true cinematic masterpiece and a pop culture touchstone.
It grossed $136 million in all, surpassed at the time only by "Gone With the Wind" and "The Sound of Music. Adjusted for inflation, that's $711 million, making it the 26th highest-grossing film of all time.
Well, add another $6 to that when I had my own private showing at the Fox Lake Theatre. (I was the only one in the theater back in March. This was my first theater seen movie since February 28, 2020 for some reason.)
--CootBrando
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