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The Godfather
Release date 15th March 1972
Country: USA
Running time: 175 mins
Genre : Thriller/ Crime
Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Screenplay based on the novel by Mario Puzo
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Don Vito Corleone the head of a powerful Mafia family transfers his power to his reluctant younger son.
The great gangster epic of modern cinema is superb in making us sympathise with this Mafia family and incredibly convincing in depicting the conversion of Michael from a normal young man to a cold blooded killer all for the family honour. The setpieces : the killing of James Caan, the restaurant killing by Michael and the new Godfather dishing out revenge to his enemies which is intercut with baptism of his son are shocking and brutal but cinematically perfect.
