The Godfather (1972)
MOVIE SUMMARY:
Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don," the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago rejected the family business, Michael shows up at the wedding of his sister, Connie (Talia Shire), with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay (Diane Keaton), who learns for the first time about the family "business." A few months later at Christmas time, the don barely survives being shot by gunmen in the employ of a drug-trafficking rival whose request for aid from the Corleones' political connections was rejected. After saving his father from a second assassination attempt, Michael persuades his hotheaded eldest brother, Sonny (James Caan), and family advisors Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda) that he should be the one to exact revenge on the men responsible. After murdering a corrupt police captain and the drug trafficker, Michael hides out in Sicily while a gang war erupts at home. Falling in love with a local girl, Michael marries her, but she is later slain by Corleone enemies in an attempt on Michael's life. Sonny is also butchered, having been betrayed by Connie's husband. As Michael returns home and convinces Kay to marry him, his father recovers and makes peace with his rivals, realizing that another powerful don was pulling the strings behind the narcotics endeavor that began the gang warfare. Once Michael has been groomed as the new don, he leads the family to a new era of prosperity, then launches a campaign of murderous revenge against those who once tried to wipe out the Corleones, consolidating his family's power and completing his own moral downfall. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather was followed by a pair of sequels In another angle we can say, The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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| The Godfather (1972) |
Movie Title: The Godfather (1972)
Also Known As: Mario Puzo's The Godfather
In Theaters: 24 March 1972 (USA)
MPAA Rating: R (for language and prison violence.)
Genres: Crime, Drama
Distributors: Paramount Pictures, Alfran Productions
Box Office:
Budget: $6,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $302,393 (USA) (19 March 1972) (6 Screens)
Gross: $245,066,411 (Worldwide) (11 May 1997)
Run Time: 2 Hr. 55 Min.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: Mario Puzo (screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay), Mario Puzo(novel "The Godfather")
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan
Original Music: Nino Rota
Cinematography: Gordon Willis(director of photography)
Film Editing: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
Country: USA
Language: English, Italian, Latin
Filming Locations: 110 Longfellow Road, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
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Produced by
Gray Frederickson ---- associate producer
Albert S. Ruddy ---- producer
Robert Evans ---- executive producer (uncredited)
FULL CAST
Marlon Brando ---- Don Vito Corleone
Al Pacino ---- Michael
James Caan ---- Sonny
Richard S. Castellano ---- Clemenza (as Richard Castellano)
Robert Duvall ---- Tom Hagen
Sterling Hayden ---- Capt. McCluskey
John Marley ---- Jack Woltz
Richard Conte ---- Barzini
Al Lettieri ---- Sollozzo
Diane Keaton ---- Kay Adams
Abe Vigoda ---- Tessio
Talia Shire ---- Connie
Gianni Russo ---- Carlo
John Cazale ---- Fredo
Rudy Bond ---- Cuneo
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