It's quite possibly the most famous line in film history.

I want to make them an offering and a few.

Let's Don Vito Curlio and tell this Frank Sinatra-esque godson that he's going to make a studio

head think twice about not casting him in an upcoming movie.

That studio head later wakes up with a severed head of a race horse in his bed.

According to the website phrase finder, author Mario Puzzo appears to have been making

a reference to an existing phrase so that the godfather character could ironically pretend

that his offer was benevolent.

Specifically, the site references the 1934 movie Burnham Up Barnes in which oil speculators

negotiate with a woman who is inherited property only to find out that she's found another

shooter.

Drummond though, got to have that land.

There's millions of dollars worth of oil under it.

Don't worry Mr. Warren, I'll make her an offer she can't refuse.

In the wake of her husband Dorian's death, Pamela nearest presented with offers she couldn't

refuse, both of the literal and ironic varieties.

So how was it that she turned them all down?

Hi and welcome to Undisclosed, the state versus Pamelaenure.

This is the second in a series of four episodes on the case of Pamelaenure who was convicted

of murder in North Carolina based upon the poisoning death of her husband Dorian in 1997.

My name is Robbie Atjardhary and as always I'm here with my colleagues Susan Simpson

and Colin Miller.

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