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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.
DramaCrimebased on novel or bookloss of loved onelove at first sightitalygangstersymbolismpatriarcheuropeorganized crimemafiareligionrevenge motive
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Character
Earnest, classical in form, meticulous and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
Who loves it, who doesn't
206 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
Reviews
- mara_kThe Empath★★★★★
Every scene is a negotiation, and the camera knows who is winning before the characters do. Coppola shoots power as a kind of weather: it settles over rooms. Still the standard for how to let a story take its time without wasting a second of it.
Cast
- Marlon BrandoDon Vito Corleone
- Al PacinoMichael Corleone
- James CaanSonny Corleone
- Robert DuvallTom Hagen
- Richard S. CastellanoClemenza
- Diane KeatonKay Adams
- Talia ShireConnie Corleone Rizzi
- Gianni RussoCarlo Rizzi
- Sterling HaydenCaptain McCluskey
- John MarleyJack Woltz
Crew
- Francis Ford CoppolaDirector
- Mario PuzoScreenplay
- Francis Ford CoppolaScreenplay
- Mario PuzoNovel
- Gordon WillisDirector of Photography
- Nino RotaOriginal Music Composer
- William ReynoldsEditor
- Peter ZinnerEditor
- Albert S. RuddyProducer
- Francis Ford CoppolaProducer
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