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Mar 24, 1972 · The Godfather is a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan. It tells the story of the Corleone mafia family and its conflicts with rivals and the law.
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The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film [2] directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard ...
El padrino (título original en inglés: The Godfather [1] ) es una película estadounidense de 1972 dirigida por Francis Ford Coppola. La película fue producida por Albert S. Ruddy, de la compañía Paramount Pictures.
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The Godfather is a classic mob drama based on Mario Puzo's novel, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Find out where to watch it, read critics reviews, and see the trailer on Rotten Tomatoes.
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The Godfather
The Godfather was released on March 15, 1972. The feature-length film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and was based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name. The plot begins with Don Vito Corleone declining an offer to join in the narcotics business with notorious drug lord Virgil Sollozzo, which leads to an assassination attempt. Vito's oldest son Sonny subsequently takes over the family business and he conspires with Michael to strike back for the assassination attempt by having him kill...
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II was released on December 20, 1974. The feature-length film was again directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Both films, The Godfather I and The Godfather II are based on a single novel written by Mario Puzo, The Godfather. The film is in part both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, presenting two parallel dramas. The main storyline, following the first film's events, centers on Michael Corleone, the new Don of the Corleone crime family, trying to hold his business ventu...
The Godfather Part III
The Godfather Part III was released on December 25, 1990. Francis Ford Coppola returned as director for the feature-length film, while also writing the screenplay with the help of the author Mario Puzo. In his audio commentary for Part II, Coppola stated it was his belief in the first two films having told the complete Corleone saga with nothing more to add that led him to decline multiple requests from Paramount to make a third installment for over a decade, until severe financial difficulti...
Coppola stated that he and Puzo had discussed the potential of a fourth installment. The fourth film was intended to be a prequel and a sequel told in a similar narrative to Part II.They had discussed a potential script seeing Vito Corleone and Sonny gaining the families' political power and racketeering empire during the 1930s; and with Vincent Co...
Box office performance
The first two films have grossed an estimated $800 million in theatrical, video, and television revenues.
Critical response
The films appear in many "Top" film lists, such as AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, Time magazine's All-Time 100 Movies, the IMDb Top 250, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association's Top 10 Films, and James Berardinelli's Top 100. The Godfather Trilogy was ranked at No. 5 in Empire magazine's "The 33 Greatest Movie Trilogies" in 2010. The Independent ranked it at No. 6 on its list of "10 greatest movie trilogies of all time". Screen Rantranked it at No. 4 on its list of "The Best Movie Trilogie...
Compilations were created by Coppola and editors Barry Malkin and Walter Murch, with two released to home media: 1. The Godfather Saga(1977) – 434-minute television miniseries based on the first two films in chronological order and incorporating additional footage that was not included in the theatrical releases (with violence and language toned do...
A side-scrolling shooter, The Godfather (1991), was the first video game based on the series. The Godfather: The Game (2006) was based on the first film. Duvall, Caan, and Brando supplied voiceovers and their likenesses, but Pacino did not. Francis Ford Coppola openly voiced his disapproval of the game. The Godfather II (2009) was based on the seco...
AMC TV (November 25, 2010). "Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Godfather Trilogy". Free Republic.Browne, Nick (2000). Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55950-8.Messenger, Chris (2012). The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang". SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-8870-6.Santopietro, Tom (2012). The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-4299-5262-0.A sequel to the classic Mafia film \"The Godfather\", directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Follow the rise and fall of the Corleone family in two different eras and locations.
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Dec 18, 1974 · The sequel to The Godfather (1972) follows the rise and fall of the Corleone family in New York and Sicily. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton, the film won six Oscars and is rated 9/10 by IMDb users.
