I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse                                                      A man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man                                            Leave the gun. Take the cannoli                                                Don't tell me you're innocent because it insults my intelligence

                                                                                                              

 SYNOPSIS:

                 The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and James Caan. The story spans ten years from late 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the life of the Corleone crime family.
 

The Godfather is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made. It was initially ranked as the third greatest film in American cinematic history (behind Citizen Kane and Casablanca) on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. It has now been re-ranked number two under Citizen Kane, with number three being Casablanca. It is also the top movie on Internet Movie Database's Top 250 list, as well as Metacritic's top 100 list and Rotten Tomatoes' all-time best list.

Two sequels followed, The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Godfather Part III in 1990.

CAST:

                                      

            Marlon Brando      ...        Don Vito Corleone                

                Al Pacino               ...        Michael Corleone

               
James Caan          ...        Santino 'Sonny' Corleone

               
Robert Duvall        ...        Tom Hagen

               
Diane Keaton        ...        Kay Adams

               
Talia Shire            ...        Connie Corleone Rizzi

 

AWARDS:

                This movie won the best picture academy award in 1972. Marlon Brando won the best actor academy award for his epic role as Don Vito Corleone. Mario Puzo and  Francis Ford Coppola won the best adapted screenplay award.

 

TRIVIA:

                    Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog", so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the screen test. For actual filming, he wore an appliance made by a dentist. Brando's mouthpiece is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.

                          Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster Frank Costello. Marlon Brando had seen him on TV during the Kefauver hearings in 1951 and imitated his husky whisper in the film.

                     Marlon Brando did not memorize most of his lines and read from cue cards during most of the film.
 

                     Body count: 18 (including the horse).
 

                         A video game version of the movie was released in march 2006.

 

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