Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa examine one middle brow entertainment that earned an inflation-adjusted box office gross of over $1,000,000,000 in North America.

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Referenced media:

• “The Bridges of Madison County” (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
• “Indecent Proposal” (Adrian Lyne, 1995)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “In the Heat of the Night” (Norman Jewison, 1967)
• “On the Waterfront” (Elia Kazan, 1954)
• “Fitzcarraldo” (Werner Herzog, 1982)
• “My Best Fiend” (Werner Herzog, 1999)
• “The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)
• “How the West Was Won” (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall, 1962)
• “The Andy Griffith Show” (Sheldon Leonard, 1960-1968)
• “For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)
• “A Patch of Blue” (Guy Green, 1965)
• “The Flight of the Phoenix” (Robert Aldrich, 1965)
• “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” (Martin Ritt, 1965)
• “Thunderball” (Terence Young, 1965)
• “Bad Girls Go to Hell” (Doris Wishman, 1965),
• “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” (Terence Fisher, 1966)
• “Horror of Dracula” “Terence Fisher, 1958)
• “The Chase” (Arthur Penn, 1966)
• “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• “War and Peace: Part I” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
• “War and Peace: Part II” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
• “War and Peace: Part III” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
• “War and Peace: Part IV” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
• “I Love Lucy” (Jess Oppenheimer, 1951-1957)
• “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (Carl Reiner, 1961-1966)
• “Lawrence of Arabia” (David Lean, 1962)
• “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)

Audio quotation:

• “Main Title”, “Lara’s Theme”, “Lara Reads Her Poem”, “Intermission”, and Lara and Komarovsky Dancing Up a Storm” from “Doctor Zhivago” (David Lean, 1965), written by Maurice Jarre
• “Colonel Bogey March” from “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957), written by Kenneth J. Alford