Film · Drama
The Godfather
“An offer you can't refuse.”
19722h 55mDir Francis Ford Coppola8.7TMDB
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.
Top Cast
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Marlon Brando
as Don Vito Corleone
Al Pacino
as Michael Corleone
James Caan
as Sonny Corleone
Robert Duvall
as Tom Hagen
Richard S. Castellano
as Clemenza
Diane Keaton
as Kay Adams
Talia Shire
as Connie Corleone Rizzi
Gianni Russo
as Carlo Rizzi
The scene we cut
An offer he can't refuse
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." The line that defined a genre.
Brando stuffed cotton wool in his cheeks for the screen test to get the jowly look. For the shoot itself a dentist made him a custom mouthpiece, which is now in the American Museum of the Moving Image.
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