The Godfather
1972
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone ...
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New York, 1945. Don Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) is the aging Godfather of a mafia family. He has three sons - Sonny (James Caan), Fredo (John Cazale) and Michael (Al Pacino). Sonny is his natural successor but is impulsive, short-tempered and not much of a thinker. Fredo is overly passive.
The son of the patriarch of the most powerful Mafia clan in New York returns home from war determined to live his own life - but is forced to take up arms in a clash between his father’s traditional ways and the newcomers who threaten the family business. 23,967 IMDb 9.2 2 h 55 min 1972. X-Ray HDR UHD R.
The Godfather is an American gangster epic film (1972) starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who also cowrote the screenplay. In 2002 it was named one of the National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films.
Mar 16, 1997 · The story by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola is a brilliant conjuring act, inviting us to consider the Mafia entirely on its own terms. Don Vito Corleone ( Marlon Brando) emerges as a sympathetic and even admirable character; during the entire film, this lifelong professional criminal does nothing of which we can really disapprove.
Marlon Brando, who plays the Godfather as a shrewd, unbreakable old man, actually has the character lead in the movie; Al Pacino, with a brilliantly developed performance as Michael, is the lead. But Brando’s performance is a skillful throwaway, even though it earned him an Academy Award for best actor.
The Godfather, novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1969, which became one of the most successful fiction books ever—selling some 21 million copies worldwide, spawning three critically and financially successful motion pictures, and placing its characters into the contemporary American cultural mythology.
