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Features: Pan and Scan (TV Format), THX
Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Oscar®-winner Marlon Brando as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Coppola paints a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. He masterfully balances the story between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, this graphic and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award® nominations.
Editor's Note
Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola), THE GODFATHER tells an epic tale of Mafia life in America during the 1940s and 1950s. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the family patriarch balancing a love of his family with an ambitious criminal instinct. At the wedding of the Don's daughter Connie (Talia Shire), youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) is reunited with his family. A subsequent assassination attempt leaves the Don too ill to run the family business, forcing Michael and Sonny (James Caan), with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), to lead the Corleones into a vendetta-filled war with other mob families. Violent revenge ensues as the family tries to change from its old criminal ways into legitimacy.Coppola's certified masterpiece, which won three Oscars (including Best Picture) and spawned an Oscar-winning sequel (THE GODFATHER PART II), set a new screen standard for merging blood-soaked violence with intimate family drama. In the process, Coppola single-handedly established the Mafia as an industry in film and television (GOODFELLAS, THE SOPRANOS). Featuring truly unforgettable performances, including the Best Actor-winning Brando, the riveting Pacino, and an unexpectedly dramatic Diane Keaton, THE GODFATHER is the pinnacle of Hollywood cinema in the 1970s.
Plot Summary
Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, THE GODFATHER is Francis Ford Coppola's Mafia masterpiece. The film tells the story of the powerful Corleone family, headed by patriarch Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). Coppola sets a new standard for cinematic violence intercut with Italian-American family life. Al Pacino, in his breakout role, is riveting as youngest son Michael, a war hero turned ruthless gangster. The musical score by Nino Rota along with such classic lines as, "I made him an offer he couldn't refuse," make this epic mobster movie unforgettable.
| Features | Full Frame - 1.33 |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 12/20/1991 |
| Running Time: 171 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1972 | | Catalog ID: 080493 | | UPC: 00097360804935 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Academy Awards (1972) |  | Winner, Best Picture | | Marlon Brando, Winner, Best Actor | | Francis Ford Coppola, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Mario Puzo, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Albert S. Ruddy, Winner, Best Picture |
| Memorable Quotes| "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."----Clemenza (Richard Castellano) | | "Leave the gun, take the cannolis."----Clemenza | | "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."----Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
Rating: A 05/31/1996 p.67Chicago Sun-Times
"...Gordon Willis' cinematography is celebrated for its darkness; it is rich, atmospheric, expressive..." 03/16/1997 p.5 Premiere
"[A] superlative achievement....[With] Gordon Willis's exquisitely dark Technicolor cinematography..." 12/01/2003 p.11 Total Film
"[Brando] astounded just about everyone with his performance 03/01/2004 p.5 Entertainment Weekly
"Brando turns from Method to myth, with an Oscar-winning performance so calculatedly eccentric and full of inspired surprises that his character stands apart from all the others..." 07/16/2004 p.31 |
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