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Don Vito Corleone's line, "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse", was voted the second-most memorable line in cinema history in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes by the American Film Institute, in 2014.
AFI's "100 Years...100 Movie Quotes" list is from 2005, not 2014. The quote is ranked #2 on that AFI list, but attaching the year 2014 to that ranking is incorrect.
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AFI's official 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list ranks "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" at No. 2. A separate AFI catalog entry explicitly refers to that quotes list as AFI's 2005 list. So the ranking itself is right, but the date is not: the AFI quote ranking was published in 2005, not 2014.
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- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes | Iconic Movie Quotes
2. "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." The Godfather (1972)
- AFI Catalog entry for Titanic
The line, "I'm the king of the world!" was ranked 100th on AFI's 2005 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list.
The next year, Coppola created The Godfather Saga expressly for American television in a release that combined The Godfather and The Godfather Part II with unused footage from those two films in a chronological telling that toned down the violent, sexual, and profane material for its NBC debut on November 18, 1977.
The NBC debut date here is wrong. Credible film references list the first broadcast of The Godfather Saga as beginning on November 12, 1977, not November 18.
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Multiple film-reference sources date The Godfather Saga's NBC premiere to November 12, 1977. The AFI Catalog says the four-night broadcast "aired from 12 Nov 1977", and Rotten Tomatoes lists the series' Release Date as Nov 12, 1977 with NBC as the network. That contradicts the article's claim that its NBC debut was on November 18, 1977.
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- AFI Catalog entry for The Godfather
In Nov 1977, a new television version, known as The Godfather Saga but officially titled Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television, was broadcast. The four-night, nine-hour broadcast that aired from 12 Nov 1977...
- The Godfather Saga | Rotten Tomatoes
Network NBC ... Release Date Nov 12, 1977