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Robert De Niro was originally cast as Paulie Gatto, the low level soldier who betrays the Corleone f [...]	D
Al Pacino's maternal grandparents immigrated to America from Corleone, Sicily, just as Vito Corleone [...]	D
Marlon Brando based some of his performance on Al Lettieri, who plays Sollozzo. While preparing for [...]	D
The church baptism scene was filmed in two locations on Staten Island, NY. The interior scenes were [...]	D
Marlon Brando wanted Al Martino replaced, as he felt the singer's acting was wooden.	D
Animal rights activists protested the horse's head scene. Francis Ford Coppola told Variety, "There [...]	D
There's actually four parts to the Godfather: Part I (1972); Part 2 (1974); Part 3 (1990); and then [...]	D
According to Mario Puzo, the character of Johnny Fontane was not based on Frank Sinatra. However, it [...]	D
When Paramount Pictures approached Otto Preminger to direct, he wanted Frank Sinatra to play Don Cor [...]	D
Peter Bogdanovich was approached to direct, but he also declined the offer because he was not intere [...]	D
Don Corleone's death scene, while it featured in the novel, was originally not to appear in the film [...]	D
Bill Butler did some uncredited cinematography for the film, namely in the scenes shot in Los Angele [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola was reluctant to let his sister, Talia Shire, audition for the role of Connie. [...]	D
There is only one shot of actual money in the film and it happens when Sonny throws dollar bills at [...]	D
In the infamous horse head scene, an Oscar statue can be seen on Jack Woltz's nightstand. This Oscar [...]	D
In the 2015 documentary, 'Listen to me, Marlon', Brando's own archival tapes tell that when a boy, h [...]	D
Sonny's death scene offers up a clue to the fact that Carlo set him up. When Sonny beat up Carlo, he [...]	D
Aram Avakian was originally hired as the film's editor, but was fired after disagreements with Coppo [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola cast Diane Keaton for the role of Kay Adams, due to her reputation for being ec [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola wanted to cast Timothy Carey as Luca Brasi, but Carey turned the part down, so [...]	D
The explanation of the Sicilian tradition of a father not refusing any request on his daughter's wed [...]	D
During the famous restaurant scene in which Michael Corleone shoots Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey, [...]	D
Sidney J. Furie was originally in line to direct. Producer Albert S. Ruddy had just come off Lo spav [...]	D
James Caan died 18 years and 4 days after Marlon Brando.	D
When Vito addresses Tom as "Consigliere of mine," he pronounces the g, something an Italian native s [...]	D
It's also not widely known that George Lucas worked as an assistant editor on The Godfather. Lucas s [...]	D
The only comment Robert Duvall made about his performance was that he wished "they would have made a [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola, it was George Lucas who helped him solve the lack of filmed empty [...]	D
According to Ardell Sheridan, Mafia Captain (and future boss) Paul Castellano visited the set and sp [...]	D
The famous opening scene was modeled after a real mob wedding at the Hotel Astor in New York City on [...]	D
As the Corleones prepare for the hit on Sollozzo and McCluskey, they face a problem because they don [...]	D
The film's opening scene, a three-minute zoom-out of Amerigo Bonasera and Don Corleone, was achieved [...]	D
One of Marlon Brando's first scenes was the meeting with Sollozzo at his office. "Paramount Pictures [...]	D
Ardell Sheridan, who plays Mrs. Clemenza, was Richard S. Castellano's girlfriend at the time, and Ca [...]	D
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and Kay Adams (Diane Keaton) go to see Le campane di Santa Maria (1945) [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola's mother Italia Coppola had a scene as a Genco Olive Oil Company switchboard op [...]	D
Sterling Hayden wandered off set between takes of the restaurant scene. He was found asleep by a riv [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola initially offered the part of Don Vito Corleone to retired Maltese actor Joseph [...]	D
In the novel and the shooting script, Luca Brasi's death is a flashback.	D
Michael's description of how his father launched Johnny Fontaine's singing career was not in the sho [...]	D
Richard Conte appears in only four scenes, and only has dialogue in one: the meeting of the Dons.	D
Note the attention to detail: most of the cars have wooden bumpers. Bumpers were removed by car owne [...]	D
Mafia crime boss Joe Colombo and his organization, The Italian-American Civil Rights League, started [...]	D
The baptism scene was filmed in two churches. The interior shots were filmed at St. Patrick's Old Ca [...]	D
Each of the weddings guests who makes a request of Vito Corleone is called upon later in the film to [...]	D
The scene where Michael visits his father in the hospital was scheduled to be Marlon Brando's first. [...]	D
Richard S. Castellano ad-libbed the line "Leave the gun, take the cannoli."	D
Brando put up a $million bond that he wouldn't be a cause of any problems and he wasn't.	D
For the long exterior shots of Tom entering the studio lot, and Tom and Jack Woltz walking around th [...]	D
Casting was notoriously difficult, mainly due to disagreements between director Coppola and the stud [...]	D
The series of murders committed during the film starts and ends with a strangulation.	D
The scene where Sonny beats up Carlo (Connie's husband) took four days to shoot, and featured more t [...]	D
Michael's speech to Apollonia's father was originally written to be in Sicilian, as it was in the no [...]	D
During rehearsals, a false horse's head was used for the bedroom scene. For the filmed shot, a real [...]	D
Just like in the movie, James Caan (Sonny) is older than Al Pacino (Michael) though it was only for [...]	D
James Caan hung out with various disreputable characters, in order to better understand the underwor [...]	D
Sir Laurence Olivier was originally offered to play Vito Corleone. Unfortunately, due to his failing [...]	D
Jerry Van Dyke, Bruce Dern, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and James Caan auditioned for the role of To [...]	D
When writing the novel, Mario Puzo either directly or indirectly borrowed ideas from real-life Mafia [...]	D
During pre-production, Francis Ford Coppola shot his own unofficial screentests with Al Pacino, Jame [...]	D
William Devane was in the running for the part of Moe Greene.	D
The scene of Michael and Kay Christmas shopping required 143 extras, in addition to period cars. The [...]	D
In the novel and the screenplay, Sonny's death was a flashback. Sonny drives to the tollbooth, then [...]	D
Paramount executive Peter Bart bought the film rights to Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" before it was [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola in his "Cigar Aficionado" Magazine interview, he had a meeting at [...]	D
Sofia Coppola's debut as an actress.	D
Many interludes were written, but do not appear in the film: Tom Hagen on the plane to California.Ca [...]	D
During the scene in the study when the family decides Michael Corleone needs to kill Sollozzo and Mc [...]	D
During casting there was an attempt to fill most of the main and supporting roles with ethic Italian [...]	D
After Marlon Brando's death, his own annotated script for the film fetched $12,800 at a New York Cit [...]	D
The actual backstage of the Corleone house set served as the set for the backstage of Woltz Internat [...]	D
Because Corleone, Sicily, was too developed, even in the early 1970s, the Sicilian town of Savoca, o [...]	D
According to a production assistant, between takes of the restaurant scene, Sterling Hayden snacked [...]	D
Simonetta Stefanelli, who played Michael Corleone's first wife, Apollonia, was only 16 during filmin [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola hired production designer Dean Tavoularis having been impressed with his work o [...]	D
As Michael and Apollonia are strolling they are followed by a herd of female chaperones. The herd jo [...]	D
Paramount Pictures senior management, dissatisfied with the early rushes, considered replacing Franc [...]	D
When the phone rings and Connie answers it In the scene where Connie is beat up by Carlo, the voice [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola's partner, George Lucas, who also served as co-editor on this film, admits to h [...]	D
Contrary to the information in "Filming Locations," the scene where Don Corleone leaves the hospital [...]	D
At Connie's wedding, Sonny is seen in close quarters with Lucy Mancini (Jeannie Linero) Connie's mai [...]	D
Frank Albanese, who played Uncle Pat Blundetto in I Soprano (1999) and the smiling lawyer for a youn [...]	D
The hospital scenes were filmed in two different locations: the exterior scenes were filmed at a sid [...]	D
According to associate producer Gary Fredrickson, Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) had worked as a Mafia b [...]	D
Nino Rota composed a piece titled "The Pickup", which was to play during Tom Hagen's arrival in Holl [...]	D
According to Alex Rocco, he originally auditioned for the role of Al Neri, but Francis Ford Coppola [...]	D
This is the fourth of five films as of 2014 in which three actors were competing for the same Oscar [...]	D
This is the second Best Picture Oscar winner in which Marlon Brando won the Academy Award for Best A [...]	D
Al Pacino really had his jaw wired shut for the first part of the shoot after Michael is punched in [...]	D
The Corleones are based on the Borgias, a Spanish family that emigrated to Rome in fifteenth century [...]	D
Radio personality Howard Stern has said that he would gladly have any cast member of this film as hi [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola invited Italian superstar singer Mina to play Kay Adams. She turned down the of [...]	D
Robert Duvall received $36,000 for eight weeks work.	D
Michael Corleone continually drinks water in the first two films, hinting that he is diabetic. He la [...]	D
The casting of Richard Conte was an idea by the mother of Martin Scorsese, who asked Francis Ford Co [...]	D
The exterior of Jack Woltz's (John Marley) home in the film used to be that of film comedian Harold [...]	D
No cannoli are mentioned in the novel or the shooting script. Francis Ford Coppola included this det [...]	D
In the novel, as well as in the sequel/prequel, before there was Cosa Nostra in America there was th [...]	D
Marlon Brando and James Caan had to wear lifts for the movie.	D
Al Lettierri who played the Turk was a very powerfully built man. Francis Ford Coppola said that sha [...]	D
In the novel and the shooting script, it is Michael who tells Kay about the Sicilian tradition of ne [...]	D
In a life immitates art moment mob boss Johnny Camino threatened the CEO of Paramount; which is how [...]	D
According to Albert S. Ruddy, Marlon Brando "loved the people on Mott Street and they loved him". An [...]	D
The deaths of Sonny Corleone and Captain Mark McCluskey were widely derided as unrealistic.	D
Francis Ford Coppola had a background in theater, and used it to prepare the script. He would take p [...]	D
James Caan credits the stage persona of "insult comic" Don Rickles for inspiring his characterizatio [...]	D
When Mrs. Corleone is being coaxed into singing, for a split second a bald man with a moustache is s [...]	D
While the novel names Santino as the eldest son of Vito and Carmela, The Godfather trilogy indicates [...]	D
During filming, James Caan and Gianni Russo did not get along, and were frequently at loggerheads. D [...]	D
Italia Coppola's debut.	D
While filming Sonny's tryst with Lucy, Eleanor Coppola went into labor. Francis Ford Coppola went to [...]	D
Debut of actress Morgana King.	D
Mia Farrow auditioned for the part of Kay.	D
In the scene where Carlo is beaten by Sonny, a poster bearing the name "Thomas Dewey" can be seen on [...]	D
Screenwriter Robert Towne wrote the scene on the patio between Don Corleone and his son Michael.	D
Sonny Corleone's death scene at a highway toll booth was to take place on the Jones Beach Causeway, [...]	D
The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene was a stray that Coppola found while on the lot a [...]	D
Vito's assassination attempt was originally meant to be a flashback. Michael and Kay would see the n [...]	D
At the meeting in the restaurant, Sollozzo speaks to Michael in Sicilian so rapidly that subtitles c [...]	D
In the novel, when pleading his case to the Don, Johnny explicitly explains why Woltz doesn't like h [...]	D
During an early shot of the scene where Vito Corleone returns home and his people carry him up the s [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
Moe Greene's death scene was inspired by La corazzata Potemkin (1925).	D
Francis Ford Coppola cast Simonetta Stefanelli after skipping away from her screentest like a young [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando considered Salvatore Corsitto's performance to be t [...]	D
Robert De Niro was originally cast as Paulie Gatto, while Al Pacino had accepted a role in Batte il [...]	D
In the novel, Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto) is the last person who is allowed to see Don Corleone (M [...]	D
A young Sylvester Stallone auditioned for the roles of Paulie Gatto and Carlo Rizzi, but was not cas [...]	D
The name of the traditional Sicilian hat (worn, for instance, by Michael's bodyguards) is "coppola".	D
The immortal line: "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse " makes it into each Godfather mo [...]	D
Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that in the first take of [...]	D
Martin Sheen and Dean Stockwell auditioned for the role of Michael Corleone. Oscar winner Rod Steige [...]	D
In the scene where Clemenza, Rocco and Paulie Gato drive through New York, stock footage from the ea [...]	D
Franco Nero met with Francis Ford Coppola in London over playing Sollozzo.	D
Salvatore Corsitto was hired from an open casting call.	D
The mansion of Jack Woltz was also used as the mansion of Alan Stanwyk in Fletch - Un colpo da prima [...]	D
Marlon Brando had to lose weight in order to play Don Vito Corleone.	D
A diary about the film's production, "The Godfather Journal" by Ira Zuckerman, was published as a ma [...]	D
The three-year-old child actor, Anthony Gounaris, responded best when his real name was used while s [...]	D
To keep a veil of secrecy when shooting on some 90% of scenes filmed in the New York suburbs Brando' [...]	D
For the scene where Clemenza is cooking, Francis Ford Coppola originally wrote in the script, "Cleme [...]	D
Cinematographer Gordon Willis earned himself the nickname "The Prince of Darkness," since his sets w [...]	D
The meeting between the heads of the Mafioso was filmed in the boardroom of the Penn-Central Railroa [...]	D
Elvis Presley, an avid fan of the book, auditioned for the role of Tom Hagen, though he really wante [...]	D
The character of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz's was patterned after Warner Brothers chief Jack L. Warn [...]	D
James Caan was angry that scenes giving Sonny more depth (such as his reaction to his father's shoot [...]	D
There was a great deal of mooning on-set, started by James Caan and Robert Duvall. In an effort to b [...]	D
James Caan improvised the part where he throws the FBI photographer's camera to the ground. The acto [...]	D
Mario Puzo was very proud of one particular line from the novel, "A lawyer with a briefcase can stea [...]	D
Sergio Leone was approached to direct the film, but turned it down since he felt the story, which gl [...]	D
The slow camera movement that opens the film, which starts with a close-up of Bonasera's face and en [...]	D
Burt Reynolds was considered for the part of Sonny Corleone by Coppola, but Marlon Brando refused to [...]	D
The film that inspired Chris Columbus to become a filmmaker when he first saw it at the age of fifte [...]	D
Like the character Michael Corleone, many members of the cast and crew of "The Godfather Trilogy" we [...]	D
The film's three male leads, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan, all quit Hollywood and then re [...]	D
During the casting process various people attached to the production gave interviews claiming they w [...]	D
Fabrizio, Michael's Sicilian bodyguard who planted the bomb that killed Appolonia, was supposed to b [...]	D
Iconically, the blockbuster success of The Godfather meant that the mafia's initial problems became [...]	D
Al Pacino revealed he never had a choice to play Michael Corleone. "At that time in my life, I didn' [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola didn't care for the horse head scene in the novel, but recognized that it was t [...]	D
Some of the lead and supporting actors in the film have appeared in miscellaneous episodes of the po [...]	D
James Caan dismissed the rumor that he butted heads with co-star Gianni Russo on set. Russo claimed [...]	D
According to an August 1971 article by Nicholas Pileggi in the New York Times, a supporting cast mem [...]	D
Cinematographer Gordon Willis initially turned down the opportunity to work on the film, because the [...]	D
When Marlon Brando, as Don Corleone, purchases some oranges on the street (just before the gunmen at [...]	D
William Reynolds edited the first half of the film, Peter Zinner the second.	D
The producers offered Burt Reynolds the Michael Corleone role before they offered it to Al Pacino. W [...]	D
According to Albert S. Ruddy's assistant, Bettye McCartt, Ruddy was warned by police that the Mafia [...]	D
The ribbons on Michael Corleone's Marine Corps uniform are the Silver Star, the Navy and Marine Corp [...]	D
During filming, Francis Ford Coppola complained about the station wagon that picked him up, so he an [...]	D
The first of four successive years that Al Pacino was nominated for an acting Academy Award. A Best [...]	D
Al Pacino was called "sonny" by his friends growing up, just like his fictional brother Santino 'Son [...]	D
A promotional board game titled "The Godfather Game" was released in 1971.	D
In one scene, Sonny makes the expression "Going to the mattresses". This would become a popular phra [...]	D
Six cameras were used to shoot the wedding sequences, including four in the garden to capture cinema [...]	D
According to Richard S. Castellano, he defended Gordon Willis during a disagreement Willis was havin [...]	D
Along with Mario Puzo's source novel, Francis Ford Coppola based many of the characters on members o [...]	D
While filming in Little Italy, Marlon Brando developed a taste for the spicy squid with marinara sau [...]	D
Robert Evans hated Nino Rota's original stab at the score. Francis Ford Coppola threatened to quit o [...]	D
Paramount Pictures' original idea was to make this a low-budget gangster film set in the present, ra [...]	D
In the wedding scene, when they are singing "C'Ã¨ la luna mezzo mare" the camera cuts to a man wit [...]	D
The producers wanted Al Pacino to wear lifts.	D
Francis Ford Coppola worked with relatives in this film, (making it a family film in many contexts). [...]	D
Charlie Bluhdorn, the President of Gulf + Western, wanted Charles Bronson to play Michael Corleone.	D
The Corleone house was constructed for the film to include two stories, complete with a living room, [...]	D
Peter Donat, Martin Sheen, Roy Thinnes, Barry Primus, Robert Vaughn, Richard Mulligan, Keir Dullea, [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola on the DVD commentary, the intercutting of the baptism scene with [...]	D
According to interviews in the Coppola Restoration DVD set, the film was originally planned with an [...]	D
Gray Frederickson: The film's associate producer as the cowboy in the studio when Tom Hagen encounte [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola, Gordon Willis' favorite shot was an overhead shot of the Sicilian [...]	D
The scenes of Michael and Kay at the wedding at the beginning were shot at night. Due to the rushed [...]	D
Producer Albert S. Ruddy later said that "It was the most miserable film I can think of to make. Nob [...]	D
Al Pacino wore a foam latex facial appliance that covered his entire left cheek and was made up with [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola turned in an initial Director's Cut running two hours and six minutes. "Paramou [...]	D
Although the dark photography of Gordon Willis was eventually copied by many other films, when the d [...]	D
Throughout the film series, MIchael Corleone only kills two people...Captain McClusky and Solozzo. T [...]	D
Exterior shots of the Woltz estate are actually Harold Lloyd's house. Interior scenes were shot at t [...]	D
The studio originally wanted to scrap the now-iconic "puppet strings" logo (which was first created [...]	D
It was revealed in the novel that Appolonia was one month pregnant by the time she was killed in the [...]	D
Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster Frank Costello. Marlon Brando h [...]	D
Frankie Avalon and Vic Damone, both established and experienced singers, auditioned for the role of [...]	D
During the 45th Anniversary reunion in 2017, Al Pacino, to Diane Keaton's amusement, revealed that d [...]	D
Vic Damone was originally cast as Johnny Fontaine, but dropped out, ostensibly because he couldn't i [...]	D
Mario Puzo modelled the character of Don Vito Corleone on New York City mob bosses Joe Profaci and V [...]	D
Ryan O'Neal was considered briefly for the role of Michael Corleone.	D
Aldo Ray was considered for the role of Sonny Corleone.	D
Paramount Pictures wanted the film to appeal to a wide audience, and threatened Francis Ford Coppola [...]	D
Frank Sivero appears as an extra in the scene where Santino 'Sonny' Corleone beats up Carlo Rizzi. H [...]	D
The scene between Tom and Sollozzo was shot in an abandoned diner. The snowstorm when they exit the [...]	D
Diane Keaton based much of her portrayal of Kay Adams on Francis Ford Coppola's wife, Eleanor Coppol [...]	D
While filming a scene with Marlon Brando, Lenny Montana opened his mouth to speak and stuck out his [...]	D
Al Martino, who plays Johnny Fontane in the movie, was not director Francis Ford Coppola's first cho [...]	D
In the Godfather, Vito Corleone played by the legend Marlon Brando picked up a cat but it was actual [...]	D
James Caan originally heard the phrase "bada-bing!" from his acquaintance, the real-life mobster Car [...]	D
Luana Anders, who was in Francis Coppola's first film "Dementia 13" was brought in to re-voice the a [...]	D
James Caan says that he walked out of an initial screening after realizing director Francis Ford Cop [...]	D
John Martino ad-libbed the words "Madone'" (Madonna) and "sfortunato" (unfortunate), when Paulie tal [...]	D
The scene in which Enzo comes to visit Vito Corleone in the hospital was shot in reverse, with the o [...]	D
In the novel, Don Cuneo's first name is Ottileo, but in the film he was known as Carmine Cuneo, an h [...]	D
Visitors to the set often assumed Abe Vigoda was a Mafioso.	D
The film makes use of a variety of Italian words: Paulie says "sfortunato", which means "unlucky guy [...]	D
McCluskey's death was achieved by building a fake forehead onto Sterling Hayden's head. A gap was cu [...]	D
The town square in Sicily is central in all three movies. In the Godfather, Michael passes by it whe [...]	D
To add a sense of reality to the wedding scene (and because he only had two days to shoot it), Franc [...]	D
Olivia Hussey was considered by casting director Fred Roos for the role of Apollonia. Francis Ford C [...]	D
Moe Greene was modelled after Jewish mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, although Siegel was not known [...]	D
Ten percent of the film was shot on soundstages at Filmways Studio lot in New York City.	D
As Vito Corleone picks oranges prior to the assassination attempt there;s a poster in the window adv [...]	D
Though Francis Ford Coppola wanted to portray Italians authentically, he cast many actors in the Cor [...]	D
Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Sc [...]	D
The early buzz on this movie was so positive that a sequel was planned before the film was even fini [...]	D
Rudy Vallee coveted the part of Tom Hagen, but was deemed too old.	D
Francis Ford Coppola originally planned to open the film with the wedding, immediately introducing a [...]	D
One of the reasons why Francis Ford Coppola finally agreed to direct the film was because he was in [...]	D
The wedding scene, due to its size, was filmed on several locations on the same street that the hous [...]	D
According to Al Pacino, the tears in Marlon Brando's eyes were real, in the hospital scene when Mich [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola insisted on the film being called "Mario Puzo's The Godfather" rather than just [...]	D
Nino Rota's iconic score earned him an Oscar nomination, but it was later rescinded when the Academy [...]	D
Mario Puzo gave Vito's eldest son the nickname of "Sonny" after the nickname given to the son of Al [...]	D
Film debut for Joe Spinell, in the uncredited role of Willi Cicci.	D
Despite James Caan testing for Michael, Sonny and Hagen in The Godfather and having lots of coaching [...]	D
The film took seventy-seven days to shoot, six days less than the original schedule of eighty-three [...]	D
Vito refuses to get into the narcotics business after the war, not only because he knows his politic [...]	D
Orson Welles lobbied to get the part of Don Vito Corleone, even offering to lose a good deal of weig [...]	D
Sonny's death scene was inspired by the ending of Gangster Story (1967).	D
Despite having his Oscar nomination withdrawn by the Academy upon discovery that he had reused the s [...]	D
The Don's wife, Carmela "Mama" Corleone, is seen singing at the wedding. Morgana King, who played Ca [...]	D
The opening wedding celebrations were filmed over a period of a week, and employed over seven hundre [...]	D
Robert Evans apparently screened the films about gangsters that Paramount Pictures had released befo [...]	D
Marlon Brando did not memorize most of his lines and read from cue cards during most of the film. As [...]	D
After Michael does the assassination, they originally planned an intermission, but director Francis [...]	D
Real-life gangsters responded enthusiastically to the film, with many of them feeling it was a portr [...]	D
Al Pacino, James Caan, and Diane Keaton were all paid $35,000 for their work on the film.	D
According to Al Pacino in The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990), he nearly got fired midway thr [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola held improvisational rehearsal sessions that simply consisted of the main cast [...]	D
James Caan was at first considered to play first Tom Hagen (for what he actually auditioned), and th [...]	D
The smack that Vito gives Johnny Fontane was not in the script. Marlon Brando improvised the smack a [...]	D
In April 1972, Paramount Pictures took out an ad in the trade papers which read, "In less than four [...]	D
For the Don's funeral, twenty limos and 150 extras were used, with flowers costing over $1,000 each.	D
The scene in which the mob bosses agree not to sell drugs in their own neighbourhoods has been partl [...]	D
The technicians who attached the squibs to James Caan's body told him he had never attached that man [...]	D
After Robert Evans insisted that James Caan be cast as Michael, Carmine Caridi was cast in the role [...]	D
The Woltz International Pictures lot is actually Paramount's lot in Hollywood. This was not producti [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola, the film took 62 days to shoot from March 23, 1971 to May 24, 197 [...]	D
This was Richard Conte's final American studio film before his death on April 15, 1975 at the age of [...]	D
Gianni Russo used his organized crime connections to secure the role of Carlo Rizzi, going so far as [...]	D
Gordon Willis insisted that every shot represent a point of view, usually setting his camera about f [...]	D
According to Francis Ford Coppola in the DVD commentary, in the scene where Captain McCluskey confro [...]	D
The Lumen Martin Winter mural of Empire Express 999 seen during the meeting of the five families in [...]	D
Al Pacino cited John Cazale as "one of the great actors of our time". Speaking to The New York Times [...]	D
In 1974, the film premiered on NBC over two nights: Saturday, November 16, and Monday, November 18, [...]	D
Jill Clayburgh, Susan Blakely, Cybill Shepherd, and Michelle Phillips screentested for the role of K [...]	D
Public Enemy sampled the line, "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls" for their song [...]	D
Al Pacino made just $35,000 for starring in the film (the same as James Caan and Diane Keaton and $1 [...]	D
The relationship between Francis Ford Coppola and Gordon Willis was highly combustible. They would o [...]	D
According to Talia Shire, her therapist urged her to start asserting herself in the family, which is [...]	D
There's a well-known story that Coppola ambushed and "punked" actor John Marley by not telling him a [...]	D
Despite lead billing, Marlon Brando's total screentime is less than one hour.	D
Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone "look like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotto [...]	D
The first day of shooting was brought forward a week to March 24 due to the weather forcast promisin [...]	D
The film begins and ends in the Don's study. At the beginning, Vito is the Don, and Michael truthful [...]	D
Luis GarcÃa Berlanga directed the Spanish Castilian dubbing.	D
Gordon Willis was forced to use overhead lighting for Marlon Brando's scenes, because of his make-up [...]	D
Before the film was in production, Paramount Pictures had been going through an unsuccessful period. [...]	D
When Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for this movie, he sent Sacheen Littlefeather (Marie Lou [...]	D
Robert Evans originally wanted Henry Mancini to do the music.	D
Franco Corsaro filmed a scene as the dying consigliere Genco Abbandando, but it was deleted. In the [...]	D
While filming the scene in which Carlo beats her, Talia Shire lost a shoe. Not wanting to have to re [...]	D
Fred Roos cast John Cazale after seeing him in an off-Broadway play called "Life", which co-starred [...]	D
The stars of The Godfather stopped making movies for long periods during the 1980s; Marlon Brando di [...]	D
The earliest known Hollywood reference to a mob boss being called a godfather was in Angeli con la p [...]	D
Anthony Perkins auditioned for the role of Sonny Corleone.	D
Francis Ford Coppola shot Sonny's assassination scene in one take with different cameras positioned [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick thought the film had the best cast ever and could be the best movie ever made.	D
Francis Ford Coppola was hired by Robert Evans to direct the movie after Peter Bogdanovich, among ot [...]	D
Don Corleone's (Marlon Brando) slap on his godson (Al Martino) at Connie Corleone's (Talia Shire) we [...]	D
Before the sit-down meeting, and before the journey in the car to "New Jersey", the group meets in f [...]	D
The screenplays for Patton (1970) and The Godfather (1972) were both adapted by Francis Ford Coppola [...]	D
James Caan is only one month older than Al Pacino.	D
There was intense friction between Francis Ford Coppola and Paramount Pictures, in which Paramount P [...]	D
When Marlon Brando openly questioned to Francis Ford Coppola why Gianni Russo was cast in the movie, [...]	D
While filming the hospital scenes, doctors and nurses kept sneaking through for a peek at Marlon Bra [...]	D
Al Martino had a rough time on-set. Because of his inability to conjure up emotion, his lines were c [...]	D
In his 1994 autobiography "Songs My Mother Taught Me", Marlon Brando said he turned the film down re [...]	D
In the original novel, the sequence of Don Corleone granting people requests on his daughter's weddi [...]	D
Oranges, or even the color orange, foreshadow death. Clemenza asks for more wine and is given a pitc [...]	D
Actor Richard S. Castellano (Clemenza) and director Francis Ford Coppola did not get along well duri [...]	D
George Lucas put together the "Mattress Sequence" (the montage of crime scene photos and headlines a [...]	D
Anna Magnani and Anne Bancroft turned down the role of Mama Corleone.	D
The film was set and shot in New York City, at over one hundred locations. Originally, the entire fi [...]	D
Originally, Francis Ford Coppola was against directing the film, as he felt it glorified the Mafia a [...]	D
The most troublesome scenes were shot on the very narrow Mott Street with sidewalks jammed with merc [...]	D
The Mount Loretto Church in Staten Island, where the exteriors for the baptism scene were filmed, bu [...]	D
According to an August 1971 article by Nicholas Pileggi in The New York Times, Paramount Pictures pl [...]	D
In 1990, this film was selected for the National Film Registry, Library of Congress.	D
In the exterior scene at the Las Vegas Hotel (before Michael Corleone meets with Moe Greene), Fredo [...]	D
When Sonny beats up Carlo, a truck in the background and a wooden box on the sidewalk are strategica [...]	D
David Carradine and Dean Stockwell screentested for the role of Michael Corleone.	D
Francis Ford Coppola inserted the detail of people eating Chinese food out of white takeout containe [...]	D
Frank Puglia was originally cast as Bonasera, but had to back out due to illness.	D
Production began on March 23, 1971, but Marlon Brando worked on the film for thirty-five days betwee [...]	D
Abe Vigoda got the part of Tessio by answering an open casting call and beat out hundreds of other a [...]	D
Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only two actors to ever win separate Oscars for playing the [...]	D
Robert Evans told the story that Puzo owed the mob $10,000 or so and he had the beginning of a novel [...]	D
According to a 1982 interview done for the U.K., Jack Nicholson turned down the role of Michael Corl [...]	D
At one point during filming, Robert Evans felt the film had too little action and considered hiring [...]	D
The Jack Woltz Mansion was in actuality the former home of William Randolph Hearst, is located in No [...]	D
In many of the Sicily scenes, Michael wipes his nose with a handkerchief. The novel explains that Mc [...]	D

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