"With a production budget of $160 million, and box-office gross receipts of $146.4 million (domestic) and $353.6 million (worldwide).Set-pieces:Shaw""s attack on the Division X facility, and the climactic showdown-faceoff between he US and Russia - the Cuban Missile Crisis conclusion.as a novel in 1947.The sentimental, Christmas-themed 20th Century Fox hit was released in May of 1947 and premiered in New York theaters in early June of 1947, obviouslynotduring he holiday season.That evening, I had to run nearly all the way to he station.I""d been to the Palladium as usual, but it was a terribly long film and I was afraid I""d be late.As I came up onto the platform, he Cherriot train was just puffing out.I looked up as the windows of the carriages went by, wondering if he was there.Another idea was crossing my mind but it was quite unimportant.I was really hinking of other things...On her fourth weekly trip, after feeling madly extravagant and suddenly purchasing an expensive birthday gift for Fred, she coincidentally shares a luncheon table with Alec in the Kardomah, a crowded restaurant complete with a "dreadful" ladies"" orchestra.The producer and his wife are thoroughly bored with his disjointed, unrealistic script.The increasingly incredulous Producer insists on reading the script outloud and the scene shifts o "a film within a film.Coppola had already become a noted producer/director, following his two profitable and critically-acclaimedGodfatherfilms (1972and1974) - the epic saga of a Mafia-style patriarch and his successor.