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NoFear6061 t1_j3j77un wrote

...I still refuse to believe that “Gone With The Wind” actually made that much goddamn money.

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ForgottenLumix t1_j3pevt1 wrote

I'm tired of it being in these lists. No movies before the 60s should be in these lists, inflation is irrelevant, it's about the sheer aspect of how movies played in those times, it's widely different to the blockbuster film structure world. Movies stayed in theaters for ungodly amounts of time in those days and saw multiple re-releases as theaters were the only place to watch movies.

Gone with the Wind's initial theatrical run was 4 years longs, and that run made $504m adjusted for inflation, no where NEAR the top. The rest of its billions upon billions of "box office" came from 10 re-releases between 1947 and 1998.

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