The Godfather DVD - The Coppola Restoration
Three Classic Films - One Low Price!
THE GODFATHER: Popularly viewed as one of the best
American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The
Godfather (1972) is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely
imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and
Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael,
respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the
parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don," the head of a
Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by
enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a
captain and a war hero. Having long ago rejected the family business,
Michael shows up at the wedding of his sister, Connie (Talia Shire),
with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay (Diane Keaton), who learns for the
first time about the family "business." A few months later at Christmas
time, the don barely survives being shot by gunmen in the employ of a
drug-trafficking rival whose request for aid from the Corleones'
political connections was rejected. After saving his father from a
second assassination attempt, Michael persuades his hotheaded eldest
brother, Sonny (James Caan), and family advisors Tom Hagen (Robert
Duvall) and Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda) that he should be the one to exact
revenge on the men responsible. After murdering a corrupt police
captain and the drug trafficker, Michael hides out in Sicily while a
gang war erupts at home. Falling in love with a local girl, Michael
marries her, but she is later slain by Corleone enemies in an attempt
on Michael's life. Sonny is also butchered, having been betrayed by
Connie's husband. As Michael returns home and convinces Kay to marry
him, his father recovers and makes peace with his rivals, realizing
that another powerful don was pulling the strings behind the narcotics
endeavor that began the gang warfare. Once Michael has been groomed as
the new don, he leads the family to a new era of prosperity, then
launches a campaign of murderous revenge against those who once tried
to wipe out the Corleones, consolidating his family's power and
completing his own moral downfall. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and
winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted
Screenplay, The Godfather was followed by a pair of sequels. THE GODFATHER PART II:
This brilliant companion piece to the original The Godfather continues
the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone
family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a
young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro, and the
ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Reassembling many of
the talents who helped make The Godfather, Coppola has produced a movie
of staggering magnitude and vision, and undeniably the best sequel ever
made. Robert De Niro won an Oscar®; the film received six Academy
Awards, including Best Picture of 1974. THE GODFATHER PART III:
One of the greatest sagas in movie history continues! In this third
film in the epic Corleone trilogy, Al Pacino reprises the role of
powerful family leader Michael Corleone. Now in his 60's, Michael is
dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a
suitable successor. That successor could be fiery Vincent (Andy
Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of
business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. Francis Ford
Coppola directs Pacino, Garcia, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Eli Wallach,
Sofia Coppola, Joe Montegna and others in this exciting, long-awaited
film that masterfully explores the themes of power, tradition, revenge
and love. Seven Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture. |
