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Podcast: Based on a True Story
Episode: The Sound of Music
Description: There are few movies that stand near the top of the all-time list for income. One of those movies is The Sound of Music.With a budget of about $8 million when it was produced in the 1960s, it was one of the bigger budget films when it was made. That $8 million is about $62 million in today's United States dollars.When it was released in 1965, it raked in over 35 times that amount, about $286 million on its way to an impressive five Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture in 1966. That equates to about $2.1 billion dollars...