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| Year: | 1974 |
| Rating: | 9.0(244468) |
| Listed in: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Actors: | Al Pacino Robert Duvall Robert De Niro John Cazale Diane Keaton Talia Shire |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Francis Ford Coppola | |
| Actors | |
| Al Pacino | as Don Michael Corleone |
| Robert Duvall | as Tom Hagen |
| Robert De Niro | as Vito Corleone |
| John Cazale | as Fredo Corleone |
| Lee Strasberg | as Hyman Roth |
| Michael V. Gazzo | as Frankie Pentangeli |
| G.D. Spradlin | as Senator Pat Geary |
| Richard Bright | as Al Neri |
| Gastone Moschin | as Don Fanucci |
| Tom Rosqui | as Rocco Lampone |
| Bruno Kirby | as Young Peter Clemenza |
| Frank Sivero | as Genco Abbandando |
| Leopoldo Trieste | as Signor Roberto |
| Dominic Chianese | as Johnny Ola |
| Amerigo Tot | as Michael's Bodyguard |
| Troy Donahue | as Merle Johnson |
| John Aprea | as Young Sal Tessio |
| Joe Spinell | as Willi Cicci |
| James Caan | as Sonny Corleone |
| Abe Vigoda | as Sal Tessio |
| Gianni Russo | as Carlo Rizzi |
| Oreste Baldini | as Vito Andolini as a Boy |
| Giuseppe Sillato | as Don Francesco 'Ciccio' |
| Mario Cotone | as Don Tommasino |
| James Gounaris | as Anthony Vito Corleone |
| Harry Dean Stanton | as F.B.I. Man #1 |
| David Baker | as F.B.I. Man #2 |
| Carmine Caridi | as Carmine Rosato |
| Danny Aiello | as Tony Rosato |
| Carmine Foresta | as Policeman |
| Nick Discenza | as Bartender |
| Joseph Medeglia | as Father Carmelo |
| William Bowers | as Senate Committee Chairman |
| Joseph Della Sorte | as Michael's Buttonman #1 |
| Carmen Argenziano | as Michael's Buttonman #2 |
| Joe Lo Grippo | as Michael's Buttonman #3 |
| Ezio Flagello | as Impressario |
| Livio Giorgi | as Tenor in 'Senza Mamma' |
| Tito Alba | as Cuban President Batista |
| Johnny Naranjo | as Cuban Translator |
| Salvatore Po | as Pentangeli's Brother |
| Ignazio Pappalardo | as Mosca |
| Andrea Maugeri | as Strollo |
| Peter LaCorte | as Signor Abbandando |
| Vincent Coppola | as Street Vendor |
| Peter Donat | as Questadt |
| Tom Dahlgren | as Fred Corngold |
| Paul B. Brown | as Senator Ream |
| Phil Feldman | as Senator #1 |
| Roger Corman | as Senator #2 |
| Joe De Nicola | as Attendant at Brothel |
| Edward Van Sickle | as Ellis Island Doctor |
| Richard Watson | as Custom Official |
| Roman Coppola | as Sonny Corleone as a Boy |
| Larry Guardino | as Vito's Uncle |
| Ken Koc | as Waiter #1 |
| Shô Kosugi | as Passerby in Coat with Cap Pulled Down |
| Gary Kurtz | as Photographer in Court |
| Richard Matheson | as Senator #3 |
| John Megna | as Young Hyman Roth |
| Frank Pesce | as Extra |
| Victor Pujols | as Cuban Guerilla with Grenade |
| Jay Rasumny | as Street Vendor |
| Hank Robinson | as Man Guarding Hyman Roth |
| Carmelo Russo | as Man Who Greets Vito |
| Tony Sirico | as Extra |
| Julian Voloshin | as Sam Roth |
| Actresses | |
| Diane Keaton | as Kay Corleone |
| Talia Shire | as Connie Corleone |
| Francesca De Sapio | as Young Mama Corleone |
| Morgana King | as Mama Corleone |
| Marianna Hill | as Deanna Corleone |
| Tere Livrano | as Theresa Hagen |
| Maria Carta | as Vito's Mother |
| Fay Spain | as Mrs. Marcia Roth |
| Kathleen Beller | as Girl in 'Senza Mamma' |
| Saveria Mazzola | as Signora Colombo |
| Elda Maida | as Pentangeli's Wife |
| Ivonne Coll | as Yolanda |
| Gabriella Belloni | as Ellis Island Nurse |
| Venancia Grangerard | as Cuban Nurse |
| Erica Yohn | as Governess |
| Teresa Tirelli | as Midwife |
| Italia Coppola | as Mama Corleone's Body |
| Sofia Coppola | as Child on Ship |
| Julie Gregg | as Sandra Corleone |
| Laura Lyons | |
| Connie Mason | as Extra |
| Filomena Spagnuolo | as Extra in Little Italy |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Italian, Spanish, Latin |
| Filming dates: | 1 October 1973 - 19 June 1974 |
| Budget: | USD 13,000,000 |
| Gross: |
Australia - 45,084 AUD (1990) Hong Kong - 677,755 HKD (1975) |
| Plot: | The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. |
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"Senza mamma" (F. Pennino Edition) by Francesco Pennino Performed by Livio Giorgi (uncredited) "Napule ve salute" by Francesco Pennino Performed by Livio Giorgi (uncredited) "Mr. Wonderful" by Jerry Bock, Lawrence Holofcener (as Larry Holofcener), George David Weiss (as George Weiss) "Heart and Soul" by Frank Loesser and Hoagy Carmichael "Guantanamera" (uncredited) Written by Marti-Angula-Seeger |
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DATE: The American flags visible in the 1917 street carnival should have 48 stars, not 50. Miscellaneous: During the Cuban rebel uprising scene, a store is looted while Michael Corleone makes his escape. Something is stuck to the camera lens and can be seen as a silhouette on the screen. Revealing mistakes: The supposedly dead prostitute can be seen breathing by the movement of the white sheets. Continuity: In Havana, when Fredo and Michael are talking around a table in the bar, a lit cigarette appears suddenly in the Fredo's previously empty right hand. Revealing mistakes: When Vito shoots Fanucci in the chest, a small puff of smoke can be seen from the squib. Continuity: When Michael returns from Las Vegas after Christmas, he is carrying a briefcase in one hand, and nothing in the other hand. As he walks into the house, he's holding the briefcase in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other. Continuity: Shortly after the assassination attempt on Michael in his bedroom, he meets alone in a room with Tom Hagen. They sit at an empty table. After talking for a few minutes, Michael offers Tom a glass of Courvoisier, from a bottle which has randomly materialized on the table. Continuity: SPOILER: After Vito Corleone kills Don Fanucci and is sitting on the steps with his family, Sonny can be seen yawning; however, when we cut to a shot of Vito holding Michael, Sonny's body is in a different position and his facial expression has clearly changed. Also, when we cut to the pan version after Vito has told Michael that he loves him, Sonny has the end of the flag out of his mouth and is sitting with his hands on his lap. SYNC: When Vito and Genco go to the theatre, and watch the 'Senza Mama' show, the singers voice is clearly out of sync with the words of the song. Continuity: During Roth's birthday party, the pattern on his shirt changes. Due to weather difficulties, the two minute scene took over a week to shoot and the original shirt was lost at some point. The production designer attempted to recreate it by drawing an approximation of the pattern onto a plain shirt, but it didn't quite match. Crew: When Vito is driving and Fanucci hops onto the car, another car passes between the camera and Vito's car - Coppola and the camera can be seen reflected in the car's window. Continuity: When Michael and Kay are in their bedroom after the party, Michael is looking out the window, and below him is a mirror that shows Kay's reflection. When Michael ducks to avoid the wave of bullets that comes through the window, Kay's reflection disappears. GEOG: When traveling into New York harbor for the first time, young Vito's boat is traveling south, away from Ellis Island toward the ocean. Continuity: When young Vito is quarantined, we see him looking out the window at the Statue of Liberty. From the outside shot he appears to be standing at the right-most window pane, but when we see the scene from inside, he's at the other end of the window (i.e., what would have been the left side as seen from the outside). GEOG: When young Vito is quarantined, we are led to believe that he is still on Ellis Island. As he looks out the window, the shot from outside shows the reflection of the Statue of Liberty. By that reflection (the front of the Statue) Vito would have to be on Governors Island. Continuity: When Michael is confronting his brother in the den, he is eating a piece of fruit which changes size inconsistently between shots. CHAR: At the end of the movie in the flashback, they talk about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happening "on Pop's birthday". The Pearl Harbor attacks were on December 7, but according to his tombstone, in The Godfather (1972), Vito's date of birth is April 29. Continuity: During the sniper shooting into the Corleones' bedroom, the mirror on the dresser shows Kay sliding off her side of the bed as soon as the gunshots pierce the window and at this point her pillow is vertical. But as Michael crawls to Kay's side of the bed, she's back on top, waiting for him to pull her down, and her pillow is now laying flat. Miscellaneous: When Fredo gets to the hotel in Havana, Cuba, the Dominican Republic flag is clearly visible on the flag pole. Fact errors: There is a scene where Micheal is fired upon through his bedroom window soon after they release the dogs to find the perpetrators. In real life, no-one releases dogs to hunt down the enemy without keeping them on a leash. There would be no way for the dogs to determine nor relay to their keepers who the enemy is. They have to have control at all times or the dogs would have no frame of reference. Continuity: When Michael returns to the snowy Lake Tahoe estate, we see him looking at a toy red car and then walking past a window. In the next shot, when he enters the building, he suddenly has a lit cigarette in his mouth. FAIR: In Michael's office during Anthony's communion party, it appears the Senator sets down his bottle of pills on the table after he takes them and never picks it up. However, although very brief, immediately after setting down the drink used to take the pills, you can see the Senator motion for his pills. After returning from a shot of Michael, the Senator is then seen closing his right pocket, presumably with the pills inside.) Continuity: When Vito shoots Fanucci in the chest there is a bullet hole in his vest, however when he opens the vest their is no hole in the shirt underneath. Fact errors: When Vito Corleone arrives at Ellis Island, he was marked with a circled X and sent to a nurse because he was suspected to have smallpox. In history, the circled X was a sign for a mental illness. Miscellaneous: During the final scene flashback, they are talking about the attack on Pearl Harbor happening on "Pop's birthday". It is also revealed that this led Michael to enlist in the army "this morning". Since the attack happened in Pearl Harbor at 8AM local time, news of the attack couldn't have reached New York before 1PM. Continuity: After Vito shoots Fanucci, the towel that is wrapped around the gun catches fire. The next scene shows Vito discarding a smaller towel with no burn marks on it. Miscellaneous: When Michael is waiting to see Fredo (during the mourning gathering following their mother's death), Michael is wearing a watch. Then when he goes in to see Fredo (and give a nodding approval for his assassination) the watch is clearly absent. Continuity: When Signor Roberto visits Vito at work, Signor Roberto counts money on Vito's desk. The arrangement of the money changes between shots. DATE: When young Vito Corleone is first entering America, a green Statue of Liberty can be seen in the background. At the time this is taking place, the statue's patina had not fully developed. It should have been a dirty brown rather than green. Fact errors: When everybody is running out of the government palace during the New Year's party, the Dominican coat of arms can be seen over the entrance (while the scene is supposed to take place in Cuba). Revealing mistakes: On the driver's side of the windshield of the red and black automobile that Michael Corleone drives to Hyman Roth's home in Miami, there is a 1970's Florida Vehicle Inspection sticker, although the story takes place in the 1950's. SYNC: After the attempted assassination on Michael, Tom and Rocco are overlooking the discovery of the dead bodies in the water. When Rocco turns away from Tom to ask where Michael is, his lips do not move while the soundtrack says "Where's Michael?". Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Michael's henchman is strangling Johnny Ola, the hanger the henchman uses for the garroting slips from his left hand. 'Domenic Chianese' (who plays Johnny Ola) has to use his own hand to keep the hanger gripped around his own neck. FAIR: In his later scenes, Don Fanucci has slash marks on his neck/throat area that weren't there earlier. (This is because of a deleted scene in which Fanucci is jumped on the streets by a group of young thugs, who slash him. The scene doesn't appear in the regular cut of the film, but does appear in the "Complete Novel for Television/Saga" edit, and as a deleted scene in the DVD set.) Continuity: The text in the funeral scene says Vito was nine years old in 1901, but according to his headstone in part one he was born in 1887 and would have been 14 years old. GEOG: When Vito with his family leaves Corleone to go back in the States, he starts his trip taking a train in the Corleone station. Corleone never had a train station, the nearest (34 km) useful train station is in Palermo, and is not looking like the little village station we see on screen. DATE: The ship-Moshulu, which transported the young Vito Corleone to Ellis Island, was built in 1904. While the young Corleone is seen looking out his window singing the date shows 1901. PLOT: The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee points out 1947 as the year Michael Corleone kills Virgil Sollozzo and Captain McCloskey; but in The Godfather, right after the assassination attempt on Vito Corleone and just before agreeing to meeting with Sollozzo and McCloskey, Tom Hagen notes, "this is almost 1946..."; very unlikely they would have waited more than a year to hold the meeting. DATE: In the Havana scene where Hyman Roth is being examined in his hotel room by a physician, one can hear distinctly the sound of Velcro as the blood pressure cuff is being removed from Roth's arm. The revolution culminated in 1959 but Velcro was not commercially available until the 1960's. Continuity: At the New Year's Eve party in the Cuban ballroom, there is in aerial shot that clearly shows Michael with his hands around Fredo's face amidst a very crowded room to deliver "you broke my heart". However this had not taken place yet because Michael is eating at the end of the table with Fredo and Senator Geary *before* the midnight celebration. "You broke my heart" comes after the stroke of midnight. Also, the room was far less crowded as they were eating when a unit of soldiers march thru the middle of the ballroom. DATE: When Tom Hagen flies into the Nevada brothel to "rescue" Senator Geary (a common method to arrive at them at their remote parts of the state) he arrives in N3254S, it is a 1964 Cessna 182G. The time in the film is before the 1959 Castro Revolution and a straight tail 182 would have been in production at the time with the slant tail not seen until 1964. PLOT: The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee asks Michael, "Is it true that in the year 1950, you devised the murder of the heads of the so-called Five Families in New York?" But at the party in the opening scenes, which takes place in 1958, Kay reminded Michael that, seven years previously, he had promised her that "within five years, the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." If that conversation took place in 1951, then the murders the Chairman referred to, which came afterwards, could not possibly have happened in 1950. In fact, since Michael refers to his son (who was neither born nor even conceived in 1951) being three years old shortly before the murders, it is probable that the murders did not occur before 1955. DATE: The ship on which young Vito Corleone arrives in the United States during 1901 is The Moshulu. But the Moshulu was not launched until 1904 and did not travel to the U.S. until 1914. The original name of the ship was The Kurt. It was renamed The Dreadnaught in 1917 and shortly after re-named The Moshulu. Crew: When Tommasino is shot in the gun battle after Vito kills Don Ciccio, the ropes that are used to pull out his legs are visibly pulled, causing him to fall over. Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene when Vito's mother touches Paolo's body, his hand visibly moves. His fingers curl up and that is something a dead body just can't do. Revealing mistakes: When they are passing around the solid gold telephone, most of the people show how heavy it is. And yet, when Michael Corleone, and Hyman Roth handle and pass the telephone, it appears light as a feather and no indication is given as to how truly heavy a solid gold telephone is. Thus destroying the illusion that it is real. Continuity: During the Congressional hearings, Michael Corleone mentions he was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II. However, when he is waring his Marine Corps uniform at the wedding, he is not wearing the ribbon for the Navy Cross. The highest award he has on is the Silver Star, which is a less distinguished award. GEOG: The Lake Tahoe estate is in Nevada. The small boat that Fredo was killed in had a CF registration number indicating it is in California. The Lake Tahoe scenes were shot at the Kaiser estate that's located on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. DATE: The movie shows young Vito being brought to America by boat on the Moshulu in 1901. The actual Moshulu was not launched until April 18, 1904. DATE: The aquarium at the Tahoe estate is of a type (without metal frames) that did not exist in the late 1950s - early 1960s. New silicone adhesives made frame-less aquaria possible a few years before the film was shot. Continuity: As Fanucci mounts the stairs, prior to being assassinated by Vito, the towel wrapped around Vito's gun varies between a cone-like shape and a flat-ended cylinder. In the close-up as Fanucci reaches for his keys, it's a cone; as he unlocks the door and tinkers with the lightbulb, it's a cylinder. The appearance when the gun is fired is different again. Revealing mistakes: When Vito's mother runs to the dead Paolo in the foreground, the boy playing Paolo can be seen breathing up to the point the mother picks the body up and then lies on top and cries that hides the continuing breathing. The hand of the boy also moves back into its original position when Vito's mother puts him down instead of remaining where it lands. Continuity: In the very beginning Paolo is shot dead. When the woman hugs his body Paolo moves his hand. |
Quotes
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Kay: It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago. Michael Corleone: I know. I'm trying, darling. [while watching a "Punch and Judy" puppet show] Don Fanucci: Oh, this is too violent for me! Hyman Roth: There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business! Senator Pat Geary: [as they're watching the performer at the sex club] Freddie, that thing can't be real. Fredo Corleone: Sure it is. That's why they call him Superman. [during the play 'Senza Mamma'] Genco Abbandando: Vito, how do you like my little angel? Isn't she beautiful? Vito Corleone: She's very beautiful. To you, she's beautiful. For me, there's only my wife and son. Kay Corleone: Oh, Michael. Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Michael. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael! I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael! It was a son Michael! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end! [Michael's eyes begin to bulge] I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael... no way you could ever forgive me not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years. [Michael loses control. He slaps Kay across the face. She falls onto the couch] Michael Corleone: Bitch! You won't take my children! Kay Corleone: I will. Michael Corleone: You WON'T TAKE MY CHILDREN! Kay Corleone: They're my children too. Al Neri: Our friend and associate Hyman Roth is in the news. The High Court of Israel turned down his request to live there as a returning Jew. He landed in Buenos Aires last night offering a "gift" of a million dollars if they'd let him stay. They said no. His passport's been invalidated, except for his return trip to the States. Tom Hagen: He'll try Panama next. Michael Corleone: Panama won't take him. Not for a million, not for ten million. Michael Corleone: I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies. Michael Corleone: I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart! Michael Corleone: There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Vito Corleone: I make him an offer he don' refuse. Don' worry. Michael Corleone: I'll change; I'll change. I've learned that I have the strength to change. Hyman Roth: If I could only live to see it, to be there with you. What I wouldn't give for twenty more years! Here we are, protected, free to make our profits without Kefauver, the goddamn Justice Department and the F.B.I. ninety miles away, in partnership with a friendly government. Ninety miles! It's nothing! Just one small step, looking for a man who wants to be President of the United States, and having the cash to make it possible. Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel. Hyman Roth: What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government. Hyman Roth: Stupid thugs. People behaving like that with guns. Michael Corleone: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone. Tom Hagen: It would be like trying to kill the President; there's no way we can get to him. Michael Corleone: Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill *anybody*. [last lines] [flashback - Don Vito Corleone's birthday in 1941] Fredo Corleone, Tom Hagen, Santino, Connie, Salvatore "Sally" Tessio, Theresa Hagen, Carlo Rizzi: Surprise! [singing] For he's a jolly good fellow/For he's a jolly good fellow/For he's a jolly good fellow/ Which nobody can deny... [about the unrest in Cuba] Michael Corleone: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't. Hyman Roth: What does that tell you? Michael Corleone: It means they could win. Michael Corleone: Hyman Roth has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years. Fredo Corleone: I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over! Michael Corleone: That's the way Pop wanted it. Fredo Corleone: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect! Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand? [Ordering drinks in a Havana cafe] Fredo Corleone: Uno... por favor... [to Michael] How do you say "banana daiquiri"? Michael Corleone: "Banana daiquiri." Fredo Corleone: Every time I put my line in the water I said a Hail Mary, and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. Senator Pat Geary: I despise the way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family. Michael Corleone: We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family. [Geary is demanding a large bribe for a gaming license] Senator Pat Geary: I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull. Michael Corleone: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally. Senator Pat Geary: I can get you a gaming license. The price is $250,000. Michael Corleone: Now, the price of a gaming license it less than $20,000. Is that correct? Senator Pat Geary: Yes. Michael Corleone: So why would I ever consider paying more than that? Senator Pat Geary: Because I intend to squeeze you. Hyman Roth: This is the business we chose. [Vito returns years later to Sicily and meets Don Ciccio, the man who murdered Vito's family] Don Ciccio: I see you took the name of the town. What was your father's name? Vito Corleone: Antonio Andolini. Don Ciccio: You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you Vito Corleone: My father's name was Antonio Andolini... and this is for you. [stabs him] Michael Corleone: He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon. Michael Corleone: [discussing the incident regarding the two unknown gunmen who fired through Michael's bedroom window earlier] In my home. Frank Pentangeli: Michael, when I heard I almost died... Michael Corleone: [yells] IN MY HOME! IN MY BEDROOM! Where my wife sleeps... and my children play with their toys. Senator Pat Geary: Mr. Cici, was there always a buffer involved? Willi Cici: A what? Senator Pat Geary: A buffer. Someone in between you and your possible superiors who passed on to you the actual order to kill someone. Willi Cici: Oh yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers! Frank Pentangeli: Those were the great old days,you know... And we was like the Roman Empire... The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire... Tom Hagen: When a plot against the Emperor failed... the plotters were always given a chance... to let their families keep their fortunes. Right? Frank Pentangeli: Yeah, but only the rich guys, Tom. The little guys got knocked off and all their estates went to the Emperors. Unless they went home and killed themselves, then nothing happened. And the families... the families were taken care of. Tom Hagen: That was a good break. A nice deal. Frank Pentangeli: Yeah... They went home... and sat in a hot bath... opened up their veins... and bled to death... and sometimes they had a little party before they did it. Johnny Ola: Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners. Hyman Roth: I want you all to enjoy my cake, so uh... enjoy. Tenor: Mama! Mamma mia! Hyman Roth: I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstien fixed the World Series in 1919. Hyman Roth: I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting Hyman Roth: I don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English. [When asked by reporters why he has decided to move to Israel] Hyman Roth: I am a retired investor on a pension, and I wished to live there as a Jew in the twilight of my life. Michael: Was it a boy? Tom Hagen: Mikey, after three and a half months... Michael: WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER ANY MORE? WAS IT A BOY? Frank Pentangeli: I don't - I never knew no godfather. I got my own family, senator. [flashback] Santino: Whatcha go to college? To get stupid? You're really stupid! Frank Pentangeli: Cicc', a porta! [Kay is threatening to take the children away] Michael: Don't you know that I would use all of my power to prevent something like that from happening? Michael Corleone: C'mon Frankie... my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth. Frank Pentangeli: Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth... but he never *trusted* Hyman Roth! [Before shooting occurs at the Michael Corleone estate] Kay: Michael, why are the drapes open? [Don Ciccio is threatening to kill young Vito] Signora Andolini: But Vito is only nine. And dumb-witted. The child cannot harm you. Tom Hagen: Why do you hurt me, Michael? I've always been loyal to you. Connie: Michael, I hated you for so many years. I think that I did things to myself, to hurt myself so that you'd know - that I could hurt you. You were just being strong for all of us the way Papa was. And I forgive you. Can't you forgive Fredo? He's so sweet and helpless without you. You need me, Michael. I want to take care of you now. Don Fanucci: Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. I hear you and your friends cleared $600 each. Give me $200 each, for your own protection. And I'll forget the insult. You young punks have to learn to respect a man like me! Otherwise the cops will come to your house. And your family will be ruined. Of course, if I'm wrong about how much you stole, I'll take a little less. And by less, I only mean - a hundred bucks less. Now don't refuse me. Understand, paisan? Understand, paisan?... Tell your friends I don't want a lot. Just enough to wet my beak. Don't be afraid to tell them! Michael: I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive. Hyman Roth: I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up, if the money is on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't. Hyman Roth: Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power. Michael: I've always taken care of you, Fredo. Fredo Corleone: Taken care of me? I'm your older brother, Mike, and you're taking care of me? Did you ever think about that? Michael Corleone: Keep 'em alive. Rocco Lampone: We'll try. Michael Corleone: ROCCO! ALIVE! Carmine Rosato: We're all very happy about your decision, Frankie. You're not going to regret it! Frank Pentangeli: I don't like this C-note, Rosato. I take that as an insult. Tony Rosato: [wraps a garrote around Pentangeli's neck] Michael Corleone says "Hello"! [drags Pentangeli to a back room and with the help of two "buttonmen" tries to shove him into a closet] Tony Rosato: [shouts] Get his head in! Close the fuckin' door! Carmine Rosato: [a cop walks into the bar] Your friend, the cop, what the f... Policeman: Hey, Rich, it's dark in here. You open or closed? Bartender: Hey, I just came in to clean up a little, you know? What's wrong? Policeman: [noticing Pentangeli] Is that something on the floor? Bartender: [Carmine starts to pull a gun on the officer] Carmine, No! Not here! Not a cop! Let him go! Carmine Rosato: ANTHONY! [as the cop starts to draw his billy club, Tony and the buttonmen run out of the back room and shove the cop into a booth, then grab Carmine and rush him out the door, followed by the cop, his gun drawn] Tony Rosato: [to the policeman] You open your fuckin' mouth, I'll blow your head off! [a gunfight erupts in the street as the Rosato Brothers try to escape] Santino: Your country ain't your blood. Remember that. Vito Corleone: [in Italian] Do me this favor. I won't forget it. Ask your friends in the neighborhood about me. They'll tell you I know how to return a favor. [first lines] Title Card: The godfather was born Vito Andolini, in the town of Corleone in Sicily. In 1901 his father was murdered for an insult to the local Mafia chieftain. His older brother Paolo swore revenge and disappeared into the hills, leaving Vito, the only male heir, to stand with his mother at the funeral. He was nine years old. [gunshots and screams] Woman: [subtitled from Italian] They've killed the boy! They've killed young Paolo! They've killed your son Paolo! Michael Corleone: I trust these men with my life, Senator. To ask them to leave would be an insult. Genco Abbandando: So, what do you think of my angel? Vito Corleone: You're happy, I'm happy. [subtitles from Sicilian Italian] Vito Corleone: [picks up baby Michael, kisses him, holds him] Michael, your father loves you very much. Very much. Kay: I suppose I always knew you were too smart to let any of them ever beat you. Fredo Corleone: You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret. You wanna try it when we go out on the lake? |
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