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The Godfather premiered at the Loew's State Theatre on March 14, 1972, and was widely released in the United States on March 24, 1972. It was the highest-grossing film of 1972, and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made, earning between $250 and $291 million at the box office.
Nov 13, 2009 · 1972. Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” opens. On March 24, 1972, The Godfather — a three-hour epic chronicling the lives of the Corleones, an Italian-American crime family led by the...
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3 days ago · The Godfather, American gangster epic film, released in 1972, that was adapted from the 1969 best-selling novel by Mario Puzo and has been regarded as a masterpiece since its release.
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Release Date. United States. March 14, 1972 (New York City, New York, premiere) United States. March 15, 1972 (New York City, New York) United States. March 22, 1972 (Los Angeles, California) Canada. March 24, 1972. United States. March 24, 1972. 50 more. All. Also Known As (AKA) (original title) The Godfather. Albania. Kumbari. Argentina.
Film series. 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.
The Godfather: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
In 1972, Mario Puzo's bestselling crime novel The Godfather was brought to the big screen by Paramount Pictures and a young writer-director named Francis Ford Coppola. It became a major critical and commercial success, with the saga of the Corleone family becoming an American epic spanning two additional films.
