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Animal rights activists protested the horse's head scene. Francis Ford Coppola told Variety, "T [...]
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There's actually four parts to the Godfather: Part I (1972); Part 2 (1974); Part 3 (1990); and [...]
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Sonny's death scene offers up a clue to the fact that Carlo set him up. When Sonny beat up Carl [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola cast Diane Keaton for the role of Kay Adams, due to her reputation for bei [...]
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James Caan died 18 years and 4 days after Marlon Brando.
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The only comment Robert Duvall made about his performance was that he wished "they would have m [...]
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According to Ardell Sheridan, Mafia Captain (and future boss) Paul Castellano visited the set a [...]
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As the Corleones prepare for the hit on Sollozzo and McCluskey, they face a problem because the [...]
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The film's opening scene, a three-minute zoom-out of Amerigo Bonasera and Don Corleone, was ach [...]
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Ardell Sheridan, who plays Mrs. Clemenza, was Richard S. Castellano's girlfriend at the time, a [...]
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Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and Kay Adams (Diane Keaton) go to see Le campane di Santa Maria ( [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola's mother Italia Coppola had a scene as a Genco Olive Oil Company switchboa [...]
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Sterling Hayden wandered off set between takes of the restaurant scene. He was found asleep by [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola initially offered the part of Don Vito Corleone to retired Maltese actor J [...]
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In the novel and the shooting script, Luca Brasi's death is a flashback.
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Michael's description of how his father launched Johnny Fontaine's singing career was not in th [...]
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Richard Conte appears in only four scenes, and only has dialogue in one: the meeting of the Don [...]
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Note the attention to detail: most of the cars have wooden bumpers. Bumpers were removed by car [...]
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Mafia crime boss Joe Colombo and his organization, The Italian-American Civil Rights League, st [...]
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Each of the weddings guests who makes a request of Vito Corleone is called upon later in the fi [...]
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The scene where Michael visits his father in the hospital was scheduled to be Marlon Brando's f [...]
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Richard S. Castellano ad-libbed the line "Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
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Brando put up a $million bond that he wouldn't be a cause of any problems and he wasn't.
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Casting was notoriously difficult, mainly due to disagreements between director Coppola and the [...]
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The series of murders committed during the film starts and ends with a strangulation.
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The scene where Sonny beats up Carlo (Connie's husband) took four days to shoot, and featured m [...]
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Michael's speech to Apollonia's father was originally written to be in Sicilian, as it was in t [...]
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During rehearsals, a false horse's head was used for the bedroom scene. For the filmed shot, a [...]
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Just like in the movie, James Caan (Sonny) is older than Al Pacino (Michael) though it was only [...]
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James Caan hung out with various disreputable characters, in order to better understand the und [...]
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Sir Laurence Olivier was originally offered to play Vito Corleone. Unfortunately, due to his fa [...]
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Jerry Van Dyke, Bruce Dern, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and James Caan auditioned for the role [...]
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When writing the novel, Mario Puzo either directly or indirectly borrowed ideas from real-life [...]
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During pre-production, Francis Ford Coppola shot his own unofficial screentests with Al Pacino, [...]
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William Devane was in the running for the part of Moe Greene.
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The scene of Michael and Kay Christmas shopping required 143 extras, in addition to period cars [...]
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In the novel and the screenplay, Sonny's death was a flashback. Sonny drives to the tollbooth, [...]
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Paramount executive Peter Bart bought the film rights to Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" before it [...]
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According to Francis Ford Coppola in his "Cigar Aficionado" Magazine interview, he had a meetin [...]
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Sofia Coppola's debut as an actress.
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Many interludes were written, but do not appear in the film: Tom Hagen on the plane to Californ [...]
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During the scene in the study when the family decides Michael Corleone needs to kill Sollozzo a [...]
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During casting there was an attempt to fill most of the main and supporting roles with ethic It [...]
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After Marlon Brando's death, his own annotated script for the film fetched $12,800 at a New Yor [...]
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The actual backstage of the Corleone house set served as the set for the backstage of Woltz Int [...]
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Because Corleone, Sicily, was too developed, even in the early 1970s, the Sicilian town of Savo [...]
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According to a production assistant, between takes of the restaurant scene, Sterling Hayden sna [...]
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Simonetta Stefanelli, who played Michael Corleone's first wife, Apollonia, was only 16 during f [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola hired production designer Dean Tavoularis having been impressed with his w [...]
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As Michael and Apollonia are strolling they are followed by a herd of female chaperones. The he [...]
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Paramount Pictures senior management, dissatisfied with the early rushes, considered replacing [...]
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When the phone rings and Connie answers it In the scene where Connie is beat up by Carlo, the v [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola's partner, George Lucas, who also served as co-editor on this film, admits [...]
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Contrary to the information in "Filming Locations," the scene where Don Corleone leaves the hos [...]
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At Connie's wedding, Sonny is seen in close quarters with Lucy Mancini (Jeannie Linero) Connie' [...]
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Frank Albanese, who played Uncle Pat Blundetto in I Soprano (1999) and the smiling lawyer for a [...]
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The hospital scenes were filmed in two different locations: the exterior scenes were filmed at [...]
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According to associate producer Gary Fredrickson, Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) had worked as a Ma [...]
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Nino Rota composed a piece titled "The Pickup", which was to play during Tom Hagen's arrival in [...]
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According to Alex Rocco, he originally auditioned for the role of Al Neri, but Francis Ford Cop [...]
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This is the fourth of five films as of 2014 in which three actors were competing for the same O [...]
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This is the second Best Picture Oscar winner in which Marlon Brando won the Academy Award for B [...]
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Al Pacino really had his jaw wired shut for the first part of the shoot after Michael is punche [...]
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The Corleones are based on the Borgias, a Spanish family that emigrated to Rome in fifteenth ce [...]
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Radio personality Howard Stern has said that he would gladly have any cast member of this film [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola invited Italian superstar singer Mina to play Kay Adams. She turned down t [...]
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Robert Duvall received $36,000 for eight weeks work.
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Michael Corleone continually drinks water in the first two films, hinting that he is diabetic. [...]
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The casting of Richard Conte was an idea by the mother of Martin Scorsese, who asked Francis Fo [...]
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The exterior of Jack Woltz's (John Marley) home in the film used to be that of film comedian Ha [...]
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No cannoli are mentioned in the novel or the shooting script. Francis Ford Coppola included thi [...]
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In the novel, as well as in the sequel/prequel, before there was Cosa Nostra in America there w [...]
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Marlon Brando and James Caan had to wear lifts for the movie.
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Al Lettierri who played the Turk was a very powerfully built man. Francis Ford Coppola said tha [...]
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In the novel and the shooting script, it is Michael who tells Kay about the Sicilian tradition [...]
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In a life immitates art moment mob boss Johnny Camino threatened the CEO of Paramount; which is [...]
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According to Albert S. Ruddy, Marlon Brando "loved the people on Mott Street and they loved him [...]
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The deaths of Sonny Corleone and Captain Mark McCluskey were widely derided as unrealistic.
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Francis Ford Coppola had a background in theater, and used it to prepare the script. He would t [...]
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James Caan credits the stage persona of "insult comic" Don Rickles for inspiring his characteri [...]
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When Mrs. Corleone is being coaxed into singing, for a split second a bald man with a moustache [...]
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While the novel names Santino as the eldest son of Vito and Carmela, The Godfather trilogy indi [...]
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During filming, James Caan and Gianni Russo did not get along, and were frequently at loggerhea [...]
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Italia Coppola's debut.
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While filming Sonny's tryst with Lucy, Eleanor Coppola went into labor. Francis Ford Coppola we [...]
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Debut of actress Morgana King.
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Mia Farrow auditioned for the part of Kay.
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In the scene where Carlo is beaten by Sonny, a poster bearing the name "Thomas Dewey" can be se [...]
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Screenwriter Robert Towne wrote the scene on the patio between Don Corleone and his son Michael [...]
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Sonny Corleone's death scene at a highway toll booth was to take place on the Jones Beach Cause [...]
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The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene was a stray that Coppola found while on the [...]
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Vito's assassination attempt was originally meant to be a flashback. Michael and Kay would see [...]
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At the meeting in the restaurant, Sollozzo speaks to Michael in Sicilian so rapidly that subtit [...]
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In the novel, when pleading his case to the Don, Johnny explicitly explains why Woltz doesn't l [...]
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During an early shot of the scene where Vito Corleone returns home and his people carry him up [...]
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This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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Moe Greene's death scene was inspired by La corazzata Potemkin (1925).
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Francis Ford Coppola cast Simonetta Stefanelli after skipping away from her screentest like a y [...]
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According to Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando considered Salvatore Corsitto's performance to [...]
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Robert De Niro was originally cast as Paulie Gatto, while Al Pacino had accepted a role in Batt [...]
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In the novel, Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto) is the last person who is allowed to see Don Corleo [...]
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A young Sylvester Stallone auditioned for the roles of Paulie Gatto and Carlo Rizzi, but was no [...]
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The name of the traditional Sicilian hat (worn, for instance, by Michael's bodyguards) is "copp [...]
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The immortal line: "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse " makes it into each Godfath [...]
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Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that in the first ta [...]
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Martin Sheen and Dean Stockwell auditioned for the role of Michael Corleone. Oscar winner Rod S [...]
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In the scene where Clemenza, Rocco and Paulie Gato drive through New York, stock footage from t [...]
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Franco Nero met with Francis Ford Coppola in London over playing Sollozzo.
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Salvatore Corsitto was hired from an open casting call.
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The mansion of Jack Woltz was also used as the mansion of Alan Stanwyk in Fletch - Un colpo da [...]
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Marlon Brando had to lose weight in order to play Don Vito Corleone.
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A diary about the film's production, "The Godfather Journal" by Ira Zuckerman, was published as [...]
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The three-year-old child actor, Anthony Gounaris, responded best when his real name was used wh [...]
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To keep a veil of secrecy when shooting on some 90% of scenes filmed in the New York suburbs Br [...]
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For the scene where Clemenza is cooking, Francis Ford Coppola originally wrote in the script, " [...]
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The meeting between the heads of the Mafioso was filmed in the boardroom of the Penn-Central Ra [...]
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Elvis Presley, an avid fan of the book, auditioned for the role of Tom Hagen, though he really [...]
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The character of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz's was patterned after Warner Brothers chief Jack L. [...]
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James Caan was angry that scenes giving Sonny more depth (such as his reaction to his father's [...]
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There was a great deal of mooning on-set, started by James Caan and Robert Duvall. In an effort [...]
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James Caan improvised the part where he throws the FBI photographer's camera to the ground. The [...]
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Mario Puzo was very proud of one particular line from the novel, "A lawyer with a briefcase can [...]
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Sergio Leone was approached to direct the film, but turned it down since he felt the story, whi [...]
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The slow camera movement that opens the film, which starts with a close-up of Bonasera's face a [...]
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Burt Reynolds was considered for the part of Sonny Corleone by Coppola, but Marlon Brando refus [...]
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The film that inspired Chris Columbus to become a filmmaker when he first saw it at the age of [...]
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Like the character Michael Corleone, many members of the cast and crew of "The Godfather Trilog [...]
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The film's three male leads, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan, all quit Hollywood and th [...]
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Fabrizio, Michael's Sicilian bodyguard who planted the bomb that killed Appolonia, was supposed [...]
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Iconically, the blockbuster success of The Godfather meant that the mafia's initial problems be [...]
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Al Pacino revealed he never had a choice to play Michael Corleone. "At that time in my life, I [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola didn't care for the horse head scene in the novel, but recognized that it [...]
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James Caan dismissed the rumor that he butted heads with co-star Gianni Russo on set. Russo cla [...]
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According to an August 1971 article by Nicholas Pileggi in the New York Times, a supporting cas [...]
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Cinematographer Gordon Willis initially turned down the opportunity to work on the film, becaus [...]
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When Marlon Brando, as Don Corleone, purchases some oranges on the street (just before the gunm [...]
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William Reynolds edited the first half of the film, Peter Zinner the second.
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The producers offered Burt Reynolds the Michael Corleone role before they offered it to Al Paci [...]
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According to Albert S. Ruddy's assistant, Bettye McCartt, Ruddy was warned by police that the M [...]
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The ribbons on Michael Corleone's Marine Corps uniform are the Silver Star, the Navy and Marine [...]
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During filming, Francis Ford Coppola complained about the station wagon that picked him up, so [...]
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The first of four successive years that Al Pacino was nominated for an acting Academy Award. A [...]
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Al Pacino was called "sonny" by his friends growing up, just like his fictional brother Santino [...]
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A promotional board game titled "The Godfather Game" was released in 1971.
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In one scene, Sonny makes the expression "Going to the mattresses". This would become a popular [...]
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Six cameras were used to shoot the wedding sequences, including four in the garden to capture c [...]
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According to Richard S. Castellano, he defended Gordon Willis during a disagreement Willis was [...]
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Along with Mario Puzo's source novel, Francis Ford Coppola based many of the characters on memb [...]
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While filming in Little Italy, Marlon Brando developed a taste for the spicy squid with marinar [...]
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Robert Evans hated Nino Rota's original stab at the score. Francis Ford Coppola threatened to q [...]
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Paramount Pictures' original idea was to make this a low-budget gangster film set in the presen [...]
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In the wedding scene, when they are singing "C'è la luna mezzo mare" the camera cuts to a ma [...]
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The producers wanted Al Pacino to wear lifts.
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Francis Ford Coppola worked with relatives in this film, (making it a family film in many conte [...]
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Charlie Bluhdorn, the President of Gulf + Western, wanted Charles Bronson to play Michael Corle [...]
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The Corleone house was constructed for the film to include two stories, complete with a living [...]
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Peter Donat, Martin Sheen, Roy Thinnes, Barry Primus, Robert Vaughn, Richard Mulligan, Keir Dul [...]
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According to Francis Ford Coppola on the DVD commentary, the intercutting of the baptism scene [...]
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According to interviews in the Coppola Restoration DVD set, the film was originally planned wit [...]
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Gray Frederickson: The film's associate producer as the cowboy in the studio when Tom Hagen enc [...]
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According to Francis Ford Coppola, Gordon Willis' favorite shot was an overhead shot of the Sic [...]
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The scenes of Michael and Kay at the wedding at the beginning were shot at night. Due to the ru [...]
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Producer Albert S. Ruddy later said that "It was the most miserable film I can think of to make [...]
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Al Pacino wore a foam latex facial appliance that covered his entire left cheek and was made up [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola turned in an initial Director's Cut running two hours and six minutes. "Pa [...]
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Although the dark photography of Gordon Willis was eventually copied by many other films, when [...]
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Throughout the film series, MIchael Corleone only kills two people...Captain McClusky and Soloz [...]
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Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster Frank Costello. Marlon Bra [...]
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Frankie Avalon and Vic Damone, both established and experienced singers, auditioned for the rol [...]
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During the 45th Anniversary reunion in 2017, Al Pacino, to Diane Keaton's amusement, revealed t [...]
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Vic Damone was originally cast as Johnny Fontaine, but dropped out, ostensibly because he could [...]
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Mario Puzo modelled the character of Don Vito Corleone on New York City mob bosses Joe Profaci [...]
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Ryan O'Neal was considered briefly for the role of Michael Corleone.
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Aldo Ray was considered for the role of Sonny Corleone.
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Paramount Pictures wanted the film to appeal to a wide audience, and threatened Francis Ford Co [...]
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Frank Sivero appears as an extra in the scene where Santino 'Sonny' Corleone beats up Carlo Riz [...]
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The scene between Tom and Sollozzo was shot in an abandoned diner. The snowstorm when they exit [...]
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Diane Keaton based much of her portrayal of Kay Adams on Francis Ford Coppola's wife, Eleanor C [...]
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While filming a scene with Marlon Brando, Lenny Montana opened his mouth to speak and stuck out [...]
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Al Martino, who plays Johnny Fontane in the movie, was not director Francis Ford Coppola's firs [...]
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In the Godfather, Vito Corleone played by the legend Marlon Brando picked up a cat but it was a [...]
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James Caan originally heard the phrase "bada-bing!" from his acquaintance, the real-life mobste [...]
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Luana Anders, who was in Francis Coppola's first film "Dementia 13" was brought in to re-voice [...]
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James Caan says that he walked out of an initial screening after realizing director Francis For [...]
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John Martino ad-libbed the words "Madone'" (Madonna) and "sfortunato" (unfortunate), when Pauli [...]
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The scene in which Enzo comes to visit Vito Corleone in the hospital was shot in reverse, with [...]
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In the novel, Don Cuneo's first name is Ottileo, but in the film he was known as Carmine Cuneo, [...]
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Visitors to the set often assumed Abe Vigoda was a Mafioso.
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The film makes use of a variety of Italian words: Paulie says "sfortunato", which means "unluck [...]
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McCluskey's death was achieved by building a fake forehead onto Sterling Hayden's head. A gap w [...]
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Olivia Hussey was considered by casting director Fred Roos for the role of Apollonia. Francis F [...]
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Moe Greene was modelled after Jewish mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, although Siegel was not k [...]
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Ten percent of the film was shot on soundstages at Filmways Studio lot in New York City.
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As Vito Corleone picks oranges prior to the assassination attempt there;s a poster in the windo [...]
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Though Francis Ford Coppola wanted to portray Italians authentically, he cast many actors in th [...]
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Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Fi [...]
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The early buzz on this movie was so positive that a sequel was planned before the film was even [...]
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Rudy Vallee coveted the part of Tom Hagen, but was deemed too old.
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Francis Ford Coppola originally planned to open the film with the wedding, immediately introduc [...]
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The wedding scene, due to its size, was filmed on several locations on the same street that the [...]
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According to Al Pacino, the tears in Marlon Brando's eyes were real, in the hospital scene when [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola insisted on the film being called "Mario Puzo's The Godfather" rather than [...]
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Nino Rota's iconic score earned him an Oscar nomination, but it was later rescinded when the Ac [...]
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Mario Puzo gave Vito's eldest son the nickname of "Sonny" after the nickname given to the son o [...]
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Film debut for Joe Spinell, in the uncredited role of Willi Cicci.
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Despite James Caan testing for Michael, Sonny and Hagen in The Godfather and having lots of coa [...]
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The film took seventy-seven days to shoot, six days less than the original schedule of eighty-t [...]
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Vito refuses to get into the narcotics business after the war, not only because he knows his po [...]
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Orson Welles lobbied to get the part of Don Vito Corleone, even offering to lose a good deal of [...]
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Sonny's death scene was inspired by the ending of Gangster Story (1967).
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Despite having his Oscar nomination withdrawn by the Academy upon discovery that he had reused [...]
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The Don's wife, Carmela "Mama" Corleone, is seen singing at the wedding. Morgana King, who play [...]
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The opening wedding celebrations were filmed over a period of a week, and employed over seven h [...]
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Robert Evans apparently screened the films about gangsters that Paramount Pictures had released [...]
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Marlon Brando did not memorize most of his lines and read from cue cards during most of the fil [...]
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After Michael does the assassination, they originally planned an intermission, but director Fra [...]
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Real-life gangsters responded enthusiastically to the film, with many of them feeling it was a [...]
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Al Pacino, James Caan, and Diane Keaton were all paid $35,000 for their work on the film.
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According to Al Pacino in The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990), he nearly got fired midwa [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola held improvisational rehearsal sessions that simply consisted of the main [...]
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James Caan was at first considered to play first Tom Hagen (for what he actually auditioned), a [...]
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The smack that Vito gives Johnny Fontane was not in the script. Marlon Brando improvised the sm [...]
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In April 1972, Paramount Pictures took out an ad in the trade papers which read, "In less than [...]
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For the Don's funeral, twenty limos and 150 extras were used, with flowers costing over $1,000 [...]
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The scene in which the mob bosses agree not to sell drugs in their own neighbourhoods has been [...]
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The technicians who attached the squibs to James Caan's body told him he had never attached tha [...]
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After Robert Evans insisted that James Caan be cast as Michael, Carmine Caridi was cast in the [...]
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The Woltz International Pictures lot is actually Paramount's lot in Hollywood. This was not pro [...]
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According to Francis Ford Coppola, the film took 62 days to shoot from March 23, 1971 to May 24 [...]
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This was Richard Conte's final American studio film before his death on April 15, 1975 at the a [...]
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Gianni Russo used his organized crime connections to secure the role of Carlo Rizzi, going so f [...]
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Gordon Willis insisted that every shot represent a point of view, usually setting his camera ab [...]
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According to Francis Ford Coppola in the DVD commentary, in the scene where Captain McCluskey c [...]
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The Lumen Martin Winter mural of Empire Express 999 seen during the meeting of the five familie [...]
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Al Pacino cited John Cazale as "one of the great actors of our time". Speaking to The New York [...]
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In 1974, the film premiered on NBC over two nights: Saturday, November 16, and Monday, November [...]
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Jill Clayburgh, Susan Blakely, Cybill Shepherd, and Michelle Phillips screentested for the role [...]
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Public Enemy sampled the line, "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls" for their [...]
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Al Pacino made just $35,000 for starring in the film (the same as James Caan and Diane Keaton a [...]
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The relationship between Francis Ford Coppola and Gordon Willis was highly combustible. They wo [...]
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According to Talia Shire, her therapist urged her to start asserting herself in the family, whi [...]
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There's a well-known story that Coppola ambushed and "punked" actor John Marley by not telling [...]
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Despite lead billing, Marlon Brando's total screentime is less than one hour.
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Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone "look like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with [...]
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The first day of shooting was brought forward a week to March 24 due to the weather forcast pro [...]
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The film begins and ends in the Don's study. At the beginning, Vito is the Don, and Michael tru [...]
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Luis GarcÃa Berlanga directed the Spanish Castilian dubbing.
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Gordon Willis was forced to use overhead lighting for Marlon Brando's scenes, because of his ma [...]
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Before the film was in production, Paramount Pictures had been going through an unsuccessful pe [...]
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When Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for this movie, he sent Sacheen Littlefeather (Mari [...]
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Robert Evans originally wanted Henry Mancini to do the music.
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Franco Corsaro filmed a scene as the dying consigliere Genco Abbandando, but it was deleted. In [...]
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While filming the scene in which Carlo beats her, Talia Shire lost a shoe. Not wanting to have [...]
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Fred Roos cast John Cazale after seeing him in an off-Broadway play called "Life", which co-sta [...]
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The stars of The Godfather stopped making movies for long periods during the 1980s; Marlon Bran [...]
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The earliest known Hollywood reference to a mob boss being called a godfather was in Angeli con [...]
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Anthony Perkins auditioned for the role of Sonny Corleone.
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Francis Ford Coppola shot Sonny's assassination scene in one take with different cameras positi [...]
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Stanley Kubrick thought the film had the best cast ever and could be the best movie ever made. [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola was hired by Robert Evans to direct the movie after Peter Bogdanovich, amo [...]
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Don Corleone's (Marlon Brando) slap on his godson (Al Martino) at Connie Corleone's (Talia Shir [...]
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Before the sit-down meeting, and before the journey in the car to "New Jersey", the group meets [...]
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The screenplays for Patton (1970) and The Godfather (1972) were both adapted by Francis Ford Co [...]
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James Caan is only one month older than Al Pacino.
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There was intense friction between Francis Ford Coppola and Paramount Pictures, in which Paramo [...]
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When Marlon Brando openly questioned to Francis Ford Coppola why Gianni Russo was cast in the m [...]
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While filming the hospital scenes, doctors and nurses kept sneaking through for a peek at Marlo [...]
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Al Martino had a rough time on-set. Because of his inability to conjure up emotion, his lines w [...]
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In his 1994 autobiography "Songs My Mother Taught Me", Marlon Brando said he turned the film do [...]
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In the original novel, the sequence of Don Corleone granting people requests on his daughter's [...]
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Oranges, or even the color orange, foreshadow death. Clemenza asks for more wine and is given a [...]
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Actor Richard S. Castellano (Clemenza) and director Francis Ford Coppola did not get along well [...]
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George Lucas put together the "Mattress Sequence" (the montage of crime scene photos and headli [...]
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Anna Magnani and Anne Bancroft turned down the role of Mama Corleone.
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The film was set and shot in New York City, at over one hundred locations. Originally, the enti [...]
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Originally, Francis Ford Coppola was against directing the film, as he felt it glorified the Ma [...]
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The most troublesome scenes were shot on the very narrow Mott Street with sidewalks jammed with [...]
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The Mount Loretto Church in Staten Island, where the exteriors for the baptism scene were filme [...]
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According to an August 1971 article by Nicholas Pileggi in The New York Times, Paramount Pictur [...]
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In 1990, this film was selected for the National Film Registry, Library of Congress.
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In the exterior scene at the Las Vegas Hotel (before Michael Corleone meets with Moe Greene), F [...]
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When Sonny beats up Carlo, a truck in the background and a wooden box on the sidewalk are strat [...]
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David Carradine and Dean Stockwell screentested for the role of Michael Corleone.
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Francis Ford Coppola inserted the detail of people eating Chinese food out of white takeout con [...]
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Frank Puglia was originally cast as Bonasera, but had to back out due to illness.
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Production began on March 23, 1971, but Marlon Brando worked on the film for thirty-five days b [...]
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Abe Vigoda got the part of Tessio by answering an open casting call and beat out hundreds of ot [...]
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Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only two actors to ever win separate Oscars for playin [...]
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Robert Evans told the story that Puzo owed the mob $10,000 or so and he had the beginning of a novel [...]
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According to a 1982 interview done for the U.K., Jack Nicholson turned down the role of Michael Corl [...]
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At one point during filming, Robert Evans felt the film had too little action and considered hiring [...]
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The Jack Woltz Mansion was in actuality the former home of William Randolph Hearst, is located in No [...]
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In many of the Sicily scenes, Michael wipes his nose with a handkerchief. The novel explains that Mc [...]
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