You May Never Have to Take Another Final Again. Just Let That Sink in for a Minute.

I'm gonna brand him an offer he tin't pass up. At present, you only get outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I desire y'all, I want you to leave information technology all to me.

Where does it say that you can't kill a cop? I'm talking nearly a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'chiliad talking about a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It's not personal, Sonny. It'due south strictly business.

Get out the gun. Accept the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 picture show about a Mafia crime family unit and the outbreak of a New York City gang war in the late 1940s.

Directed past Francis Ford Coppola. Written past Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo'south novel.

An offer you can't pass up.

Vito Corleone [edit]

• [to Bonasera] I desire you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to come across him this way. [pulls sheet to reveal Sonny'southward bullet-ridden trunk] Look how they massacred my boy.

• I spent my whole life trying non to exist devil-may-care. Women and children can beget to be careless, but not men.

• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

• Yous cannot say "no" to the people y'all beloved, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to audio like a "yeah" or you have to brand them say "no." Yous accept to accept fourth dimension and problem.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

• [to Rocco Lampone, afterward Rocco has killed Paulie Gatto] Get out the gun. Have the cannoli.

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bitch! Do you know who I am? I'grand Moe Greene! I fabricated my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!

Dialogue [edit]

Amerigo Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American style. I gave her liberty, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She constitute a boyfriend, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out belatedly. I didn't protest. Ii months ago he took her for a bulldoze, with another boy friend. They fabricated her drink whiskey and then they tried to take reward of her. She resisted. She kept her accolade, so they beat out her like an animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was cleaved. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn't even weep because of the hurting, just I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. A beautiful girl. At present she will never be beautiful again. [sobs] Sorry. I went to the police, like a good American. These ii boys were brought to trial. The estimate sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the judgement. Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom similar a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my wife, "For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."

Don Vito Corleone: Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come up to me first?

Bonasera: What practise you lot desire of me? Tell me annihilation, just do what I beg yous to practise.

Vito: What is that?

Bonasera: [whispering in Vito's ear] I want them dead.

Vito: That I cannot practise.

Bonasera: I will give you annihilation you ask.

Vito: We've known each other many years, but this is the first time you e'er came to me for counsel or for help. I tin't call back the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your merely kid. But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were afraid to exist in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't want to go into problem.

Vito: I empathize. Y'all plant paradise in America, y'all had a good trade, you made a good living, the police protected you, and there were courts of law. You lot didn't need a friend like me. Simply, now you come to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't inquire with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even call up to telephone call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you inquire me to do murder for coin.

Bonasera: I ask for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your daughter is nevertheless alive.

Bonasera: Let them endure then, as she suffers. How much shall I pay y'all?

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I always done to make you treat me then disrespectfully? If you lot'd come up to me in friendship, and so that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. So they would fear you lot.

Bonasera: Be my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito'southward hand]

Vito: Skillful. Someday—and that twenty-four hour period may never come—I'll call upon you to practise a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter'southward wedding day.

Bonasera: Grazie, Godfather.

Vito: Prego. [Bonasera leaves, and Don Corleone turns to Tom] Give this to, uh, Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. After all, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks.

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Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was outset starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a big band leader. And equally his career got better and amend, he wanted to get out of information technology. At present, Johnny is my male parent's godson. And my father went to run across this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to permit Johnny go. But the band leader said no. And so the adjacent day, my begetter went to see him, just this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1,000.

Kay: How'd he exercise that?

Michael: My male parent made him an offering he couldn't refuse.

Kay: What was that?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains - or his signature - would exist on the contract. That'south a true story. That's my family, Kay. It's not me.

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Johnny Fontane: A calendar month ago, he [Woltz] bought the movie rights to this book, a best-seller, and the main character, it's a guy just like me. I, uh, I wouldn't even have to human action, just exist myself. [choking upward] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to practice. I don't know what to exercise.

Don Vito Corleone: [shaking Johnny] You lot tin can human activity like a human! [He slaps Johnny.] What's the matter with you lot? Is this how you turned out, a Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? "Eheheh! What can I do? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You spend time with your family?

Johnny: Certain I practise.

Vito: Skillful, because a human being who doesn't spend time with his family can never exist a real homo. Come here. You look terrible. I want you to consume. I want you lot to balance a while, and in a month from now, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna requite you lot what you want.

Johnny: It'due south also late, they start shooting in a week.

Vito: I'm gonna make him an offer he tin't refuse. Now, you just go outside and bask yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want you, I desire you to get out information technology all to me.

• The line in bold is ranked #2 in American Film Institute'south listing of the top 100 movie quotations.

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Vito Corleone: [to Sollozzo] I must say no to you, and I'll give y'all my reasons. It's true, I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be friendly very long if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling, which they regard as a – a harmless vice. Just drugs is a muddy business. It makes, it doesn't make whatever difference to me what a man does for a living, sympathize. But your business concern is, uh, a little unsafe.

Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo: If you're worried about security for your meg, the Tattaglias volition guarantee information technology.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: Oh, y'all're telling me that the Tattaglias guarantee our investment?

Vito: Await a minute. I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should heed. Merely anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is terminal and I wish to congratulate y'all on your new business. I know you'll exercise very well, and skilful luck to you, peculiarly since your interests don't conflict with mine. Thank y'all. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain's going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that young girl. Never tell anybody outside the family unit what you're thinking once more.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your dominate is dead. I know you're non in the muscle-end of the family, Tom, and then I don't want you to be scared. I want you to assistance the Corleones, and I desire you to help me. [hands Tom a potable.] Yeah, we got him outside his office just most an 60 minutes afterwards we picked y'all up. Drink it. So at present information technology's up to y'all to make the peace betwixt me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my idea, wasn't he? And y'all knew it was the right thing to practise.

Tom Hagen: Sonny'll come up after you with everything he's got.

Sollozzo: That'll be his first reaction, sure. That's why you lot gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family is behind me with all their people. The other New York families will go on with anything that will prevent a full-scale war. Let's face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, balance in peace, was slipping. 10 years ago, could I accept gotten to him? Well, now, he'due south expressionless. He's dead, Tom, and naught can bring him back, then y'all gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fatty Clemenza. Information technology's skilful business, Tom.

Tom: I'll try, but even Sonny won't be able to call off Luca Brasi.

Sollozzo: Aye, well, let me worry virtually Luca. You just talk to Sonny and the other two kids.

Tom: I'll do my best.

Sollozzo: Good. Now, you lot can go. I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a concern man. Blood is a big expense. [receives news from an arriving car] He'south still live. They hit him with five shots, and he's however alive! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for you if you don't make that bargain!

---

[Sonny opens a package to find two fish wrapped in Luca'due south bulletproof vest.]

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: What the hell is this?

Salvatore Tessio: Information technology's a Sicilian bulletin. It ways Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

• Note: The line in bold was nominated for the American Film Institute'due south listing of the top 100 picture quotations.

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Michael: Who are yous?

Enzo: I am Enzo, the baker. You remember me?

Michael: Enzo.

Enzo: Yeah, Enzo.

Michael: You'd better become out of here, Enzo, there's gonna be trouble.

Enzo: If there is trouble, I'll stay here to help you lot. For your father. For your begetter.

Michael: Mind. Wait for me outside in forepart of the hospital, all correct? I'll be out in a minute. Go ahead.

Enzo: OK, OK.

---

Tom Hagen: This is concern, not personal!

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: They shot my father. It'southward business, your ass!

Tom: Even shooting your father was business, non personal, Sonny!

---

Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, right? Information technology volition be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Permit's set the coming together. Get our informers to find out where it's gonna be held. Now, we insist it's a public place, a bar, a eatery, some place where at that place's people so I feel safe. They're gonna search me when I first meet them, correct? Then I can't have a weapon on me then. But if Clemenza can figure a manner, to accept a weapon planted there for me, then I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't desire to get mixed up in the family unit business huh? Now yous wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped you in the face a little bit? Hah? What exercise you lot recall this is, the Ground forces? Where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get upward close like this and bada-bing! You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael'south head.] Y'all're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that you tin't impale a cop? I'm talking virtually a cop that'due south mixed upwardly in drugs. I'thousand talking about a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It'southward not personal, Sonny. Information technology'due south strictly concern.

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Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as common cold as they come, incommunicable to trace, so yous don't worry about prints, Mike. I put a special record on the trigger and the butt. Here, endeavor it. [Michael takes the revolver] What'sa matter? The trigger also tight?

Michael Corleone: No. [He fires] Ah, my ears.

Clemenza: Yeah, I left information technology noisy. That way, it scares any pain-in-the-donkey innocent bystanders abroad. All right, you shot 'em both. Now what do you do?

Michael: Sit downward, finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come on, child. Don't fool effectually. Only permit your manus drib to your side, and permit the gun slip out. Everybody'll still recall you lot got information technology. They're gonna be staring at your confront, Mike, so walk out of the place real fast, but don't run. Don't wait nobody directly in the heart, only you don't look away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared stiff of you, believe me, so don't worry about zip. You know, you gonna plough out all right. You take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna catch the hell.

Michael: How bad do you retrieve information technology's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families will line up against the states. That'southward all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad claret. Been ten years since the last ane. You know, you lot gotta terminate 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never accept let him get away with that. They was just asking for large trouble. You know, Mike, we was all proud of you, being a hero and all. Your father, too.

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Fabrizio: [in Sicilian, upon seeing Apollonia] Mamma mia, what a beauty.

[Apollonia says something in Sicilian and is startled to see the three men watching her. She and Michael exchange looks.]

Fabrizio: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I think you got hit past the thunderbolt.

Calo: [in Sicilian] In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Did you have a good hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] You know all the girls around hither? We saw some real beauties. Ane of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt. She would tempt the devil himself. Really put together. Such hair, such mouth!

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] The girls around here are beautiful only virtuous.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] This one had a purple dress and a purple ribbon in her hair. A type more Greek than Italian. Do you know her?

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] No! There'south no girl like that in his town.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] My God, I sympathize! [gets up to look at the cafe.]

Michael Corleone: [to Calo, in Sicilian] What'due south wrong?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Allow'due south go. It's his girl.

Michael: [in Sicilian] Tell him to come here. Call him. Fabrizio, you translate.

Fabrizio: Si, signor.

Michael: [with Fabrizio translating] I apologize if I offended you. I'm a stranger in this country and I meant no disrespect, to you or your daughter. I'm an American hiding in Sicily. My proper noun is Michael Corleone. There are people who'd pay a lot of money for that information, just then your girl would lose a male parent instead of gaining a hubby. I desire to encounter your daughter with your permission and under the supervision of your family with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come to my house Lord's day morning time. My proper name is Vitelli.

Michael Grazie. [in Sicilian] What's her name?

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

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Don Vito Corleone: [sees Tom Hagen with a potable] Requite me a drop. My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the business firm. Consigliere of mine, I think you should tell your Don what anybody seems to know.

Tom Hagen: I didn't tell Mama annihilation. I was about to come up up and wake you and tell y'all.

Vito: Merely you needed a drink offset.

Tom: Yeah.

Vito: Well, now you've had your drinkable.

Tom: They shot Sonny on the causeway. He's dead.

Vito: I desire no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a coming together with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now.

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Don Vito Corleone: [to the heads of the Five Families] How did things e'er get and then far? I don't know. Information technology was so unfortunate, and then unnecessary. Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son. We're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees, then I'1000 willing to let things go on the fashion they were before.

Don Emilio Barzini: Nosotros're all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this meeting. We all know him as a man of his word. A pocket-size man who volition always listen to reason.

Don Phillip Tattaglia: Aye, Barzini, he is too modest. He had all the judges and politicians in his pocket, and refused to share them.

Vito: When? When did I ever decline an accommodation? All of you know me here. When did I ever turn down, except one time? And why? Because I believe this drug business organization is gonna destroy us in the years to come up. I mean, it's not like gambling or liquor, fifty-fifty women, which is something that most people want nowadays and it'south forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church. Even the law departments have helped us in the past with gambling and other things. They're gonna refuse to help u.s. when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that then, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times take inverse. It'due south non like the old days when we could do annihilation we want. A refusal is not the deed of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly, he can present a beak for such services. After all, we are not Communists!

Zaluchi: I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders. If you put upwardly three, four thousand dollar investment, we can brand l thousand distributing." And then they can't resist. I want to control it every bit a business, to proceed it respectable. I don't want it almost schools! I don't want it sold to children! That'southward an infamia. In my urban center, we would go on the traffic in the night people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.

Vito: I hoped that we would come here and reason together. And as a reasonable man, I'm willing to do whatsoever is necessary to find a peaceful solution to these bug.

Barzini: Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs will be permitted, but controlled, and Don Corleone volition give us protection in the e, and at that place will be the peace.

Tattaglia: But I must accept strict assurance from Corleone. As time goes by and his position becomes stronger, will he try whatever individual vendetta?

Barzini: Look, we are all reasonable men here. We don't have to requite assurances as if we were lawyers.

Vito: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. But I take selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to leave this country considering of all this Solozzo business concern. All correct. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back here safely, but I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him—if he should go shot in the caput past a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail prison cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning—and then I'm going to arraign some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive. But that aside, let me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will not be the i to intermission the peace that we have fabricated here today.

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Tom Hagen: When I meet with the Tattaglia people, should I insist that all his drug middlemen take clean records?

Don Vito Corleone: Mention it. Don't insist. Barzini is a man who'll know that without beingness told.

Tom: You mean Tattaglia?

Vito: Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've outfought Santino, but I didn't know until this day that information technology was Barzini all along.

---

Michael Corleone: I'm working for my male parent now. He's been ill, very sick.

Kay Adams: Only you're not like him, Michael. I thought you weren't going to become a man like your father. That'due south what you lot told me.

Michael: My father's no different than any other powerful human being – any homo who'due south responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.

Kay: [laughs] You know how naïve you lot audio?

Michael: Why?

Kay: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.

Michael: Oh, who's being naïve, Kay? Kay, my father's style of doing things is over, information technology'due south finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in five years, the Corleone family is going to be completely legitimate. Trust me. That's all I can tell you nearly my business.

---

Moe Greene: We had a little argument, Freddy and I, and then I had to straighten him out.

Michael Corleone: You straightened my blood brother out?

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Fredo Corleone: Mike! You don't come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene like that!

Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're my older blood brother, and I love you, but don't always take sides with anyone confronting the family once again, ever.

---

Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna have to go through all this, and Fredo, well, Fredo was... but I never—I never wanted this for you. I worked my whole life—I don't apologize—to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologize. That's my life, but I thought that when it was your time, that yous would exist the i to concord the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

Vito: Well, there wasn't plenty time, Michael. Wasn't enough time.

Michael: We'll get at that place, Pop. We'll get there.

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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I promise Mike can get us a practiced deal.

Tom Hagen: I'm certain he will.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Boss says he'll come in a separate automobile. He says for yous two to go on ahead.

Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: Hell, he can't exercise that. It screws up all my arrangements!

Cicci: Well, that's what he said.

Tom: I can't become either, Sal.

[Several push men close in around Tessio]

Sal: Tell Mike it was simply business. I e'er liked him.

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

Sal: Tom, can you get me off the hook, for quondam time's sake?

Tom: Can't do information technology, Sally.

---

[While Carlo dials the phone, Michael Corleone enters the room with Tom Hagen, Al Neri and Rocco Lampone. Carlo turns and looks at Michael's new inner circle]

Michael Corleone: You take to reply for Santino, Carlo.

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, you lot've got it all incorrect!

Michael: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ah, that fiddling farce you played with my sis. Did you think that would fool a Corleone?

Carlo: Mike, I'k innocent. I swear on my kids. Please don't do this to me, Mike.

Michael: Sit down.

Carlo: Please don't do this. Please.

Michael: Barzini's dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family business organization, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Admit what yous did. [Carlo breaks down] Get him a drink. Come on. Don't be afraid, Carlo. Come on. You think I'd make my sister a widow? I'yard Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a drink] Go ahead, beverage. Drink. No, Carlo, you're out of the family unit business, that's your punishment. Nosotros're finished. I'g putting yous on a plane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a aeroplane ticket] I want you to stay at that place, understand? But, don't tell me you're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. It makes me very aroused. Now who approached you: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: It was Barzini.

Michael: Expert. There'south a car waiting for you exterior, it'll have you to the airdrome. I'll call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, information technology was—

Michael: Proceed. Get out of my sight.

[Carlo gets in the car and notices Clemenza sitting backside him]

Peter Clemenza: Hey, Carlo. [strangles Carlo]

---

[Connie has just accused Michael of having Carlo killed]

Michael Corleone: She's hysterical. Hysterical.

Kay Corleone: Michael, is it true?

Michael: Don't ask me about my concern, Kay.

Kay: Is information technology true?

Michael: Don't enquire me almost my business organization.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk-bound] Enough! All right, this one time. This one time, I'll let you enquire me about my diplomacy.

Kay: Is it true? Is it?

Michael: No.

Kay: I guess we both demand a drink, huh? Come up on.

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael's manus equally the door closes on Kay] Don Corleone!

Cast [edit]

• Marlon Brando – Don Vito Corleone
• Al Pacino – Michael Corleone
• James Caan – Santino "Sonny" Corleone
• Robert Duvall – Tom Hagen
• Diane Keaton – Kay Adams
• Abe Vigoda – Sal Tessio
• Sterling Hayden – Captain McCluskey
• Talia Shire – Connie Corleone Rizzi
• Gianni Russo – Carlo Rizzi
• John Cazale – Fredo Corleone
• Richard Castellano – Pete Clemenza
• Jack Marley – Jack Woltz
• Al Lettieri – Virgil "the Turk" Solozzo
• Alex Rocco – Moe Greene
• Richard Conte – Don Emilio Barzini
• Louis Guss – Don Joe Zaluchi
• Al Martino – Johnny Fontane
• Lenny Montana – Luca Brasi
• Victor Rendina – Philip Tattaglia

See also [edit]

• The Godfather: Office II
• The Godfather: Part III

External links [edit]

burnsintor1990.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Godfather

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