Storyline
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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Cast
Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Sofia Coppola, Richard Bright, Franco Citti, Al Martino, Tere Livrano, Don Costello, Gabriele Torrei, Simonetta Stefanelli, Carmine Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Roman Coppola, Robert Duvall, Frank Sivero, Tony Lip, Marlon Brando, Alex Rocco, Louis Guss, Sterling Hayden, James Caan, Randy Jurgensen, Nick Vallelonga, Gianni Russo, Sal Richards, John Cazale, Joe Spinell, John Marley, Abe Vigoda, Lenny Montana, Ron Gilbert, Richard Conte, Tony King, Julie Gregg, Rudy Bond, Morgana King, Tom Rosqui, Joseph Medaglia, Joe Lo Grippo, Filomena Spagnuolo, Richard S. Castellano, Al Lettieri, John Martino, Salvatore Corsitto, Tony Giorgio, Victor Rendina, Saro Urzì, Vito Scotti, Angelo Infanti, Corrado Gaipa, Max Brandt, Robert Dahdah, Sonny Grosso, Lou Martini Jr., Raymond Martino, Rick Petrucelli, Conrad Yama
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Reviews
100
Just about as great as a movie's ever gonna be... As for the storytellng, The Godfather is an intricately constructed gem that simultaneously kicks ass.
100
ReelViews
The picture is a series of mini-climaxes, all building to the devastating, definitive conclusion... It was carefully and painstakingly crafted. Every major character - and more than a few minor ones - is molded into a distinct, complex individual.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
The wedding sequence... is a virtuoso stretch of filmmaking: Coppola brings his large cast onstage so artfully that we are drawn at once into the Godfather's world.
100
In scene after scene -- the long wedding sequence, John Marley's bloody discovery in his bed, Pacino nervously smoothing down his hair before a restaurant massacre, the godfather's collapse in a garden -- Coppola crafted an enduring, undisputed masterpiece. [21 Mar 1997, Daily Datebook, p.C3]
100
The New York Times
One of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment. [16 Mar 1972]
