Happy Throwback Thursday! Today we’re featuring the year 1972. The highest-grossing movie that year was The Godfather! It was based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, which was a best-seller in its own right. The movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featured an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton. It was a blockbuster, breaking several box office records and becoming for a time the highest-grossing movie ever made. Learn more here.