Starring Marlon Brando as Don Corleone, an ageing Mafia ‘Godfather’, and Al Pacino as Michael, the youngest son who takes up the mantle despite his better intentions, The Godfather is a vast fresco of family life that is also a compelling account of the ruthless machinations of a criminal empire. “Certainly it is a masterpiece of the gangster genre, but The Godfather has the force that it does because it is the story of a father and sons.”Īdapting a bestseller by Mario Puzo, young Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola – then known primarily for low-budget countercultural films such as The Rain People – fashioned one of New Hollywood’s signature works, for a few years the most commercially successful film ever made.
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