Screenwriter William Goldman was offered a choice of how to be compensated: a $450,000 flat fee, or $400,000 plus a percentage of the box office. (Either initial payment was handsome by 1968 standards, when $20,000 a year was considered a good middle class income.) Goldman opted for the sure thing, i.e., the $450,000. He regretted his choice because this became the top grossing film of 1969, and eventually earned over $100 million at the box office just in North America.

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