August 30: The Godfather
The Godfather
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The Godfather
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay, Francis Ford Coppola’s influential mafia masterpiece The Godfather remains the gangland epic against which all others are judged. Based on Mario Puzo’s bestseller, the film tracks a violent decade in the Corleone crime family, including patriarch Vito (Brando) and sons Sonny (James Caan), Fredo (John Cazale), and Michael (Al Pacino), while tracing the moral arc of the once-reluctant youngest heir as he ruthlessly rises to power.
“The Godfather is overflowing with life, rich with all the grand emotions and vital juices of existence, up to and including blood.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer
- Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola based on the novel by Mario Puzo
- Composer
- Nino Rota
- Starring
- Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Talia Shire, Gianni Russo, John Cazale
- Year
- 1972
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 176 minutes