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I'k gonna make him an offering he can't pass up. Now, y'all but go outside and savour yourself, and, uh, forget well-nigh all this nonsense. I desire y'all, I desire y'all to leave it all to me.

Where does it say that you lot tin can't impale a cop? I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'g talking well-nigh a quack cop and a kleptomaniacal 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.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 movie about a Mafia crime family and the outbreak of a New York Urban center gang state of war in the late 1940s.

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

An offer you lot can't refuse.

Vito Corleone [edit]

• [to Bonasera] I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his female parent to see him this way. [pulls sheet to reveal Sonny's bullet-ridden torso] Wait how they massacred my boy.

• I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

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

• Yous cannot say "no" to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. Then when you exercise, information technology has to sound like a "yes" or you have to make them say "no." You lot have to take fourth dimension and problem.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

• [to Rocco Lampone, after Rocco has killed Paulie Gatto] Leave the gun. Accept the cannoli.

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my basic when you lot 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 way. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family unit. She found a boyfriend, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest. Ii months agone he took her for a drive, with another boy friend. They fabricated her drink whiskey and so they tried to have reward of her. She resisted. She kept her accolade, so they beat out her similar an animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was broken. Her jaw was shattered, held together past wire. She couldn't even weep because of the pain, but I wept. Why did I cry? She was the light of my life. A beautiful girl. At present she will never exist cute again. [sobs] Lamentable. I went to the police, like a good American. These ii boys were brought to trial. The gauge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence. Suspended sentence! They went free that very mean solar day! I stood in the court like a fool, and those 2 bastards, they smiled at me. And so I said to my wife, "For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."

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

Bonasera: What do y'all desire of me? Tell me annihilation, merely do what I beg you to do.

Vito: What is that?

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

Vito: That I cannot practise.

Bonasera: I will requite y'all anything you ask.

Vito: We've known each other many years, just this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. I tin't remember the final time that you lot invited me to your firm for a cup of java, fifty-fifty though my married woman is godmother to your only child. Only let's be frank here. Yous never wanted my friendship and, uh, y'all were agape to be in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't want to get into trouble.

Vito: I empathise. You institute paradise in America, yous had a good trade, you lot made a good living, the police protected y'all, and there were courts of law. You didn't need a friend like me. But, now you come to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, requite me justice." Merely you don't ask with respect. You don't offering friendship. Yous don't even think to call me Godfather. Instead, yous come up into my house on the solar day my girl is to be married, and yous ask me to exercise murder for coin.

Bonasera: I enquire for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your daughter is still live.

Bonasera: Let them suffer so, as she suffers. How much shall I pay yous?

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I e'er done to make y'all 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 past chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, and so they would become my enemies. And so they would fear you lot.

Bonasera: Exist my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito's hand]

Vito: Adept. Someday—and that day may never come up—I'll call upon you lot to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding twenty-four hours.

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 abroad. Later on all, nosotros're non murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks.

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Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was showtime starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a large band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to run into this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to allow Johnny go. But the band leader said no. And so the next 24-hour interval, my begetter went to run across him, but this time with Luca Brasi. And inside an hour, he signed a release, for a certified cheque for $1,000.

Kay: How'd he do that?

Michael: My male parent made him an offer he couldn't pass up.

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 be on the contract. That's a true story. That'south my family, Kay. Information technology's non me.

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Johnny Fontane: A month ago, he [Woltz] bought the movie rights to this volume, a best-seller, and the main character, it's a guy merely like me. I, uh, I wouldn't fifty-fifty have to human action, only be myself. [choking up] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

Don Vito Corleone: [shaking Johnny] You lot tin deed similar a man! [He slaps Johnny.] What's the affair with you? Is this how y'all 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: Sure I do.

Vito: Skillful, considering a man who doesn't spend time with his family tin never exist a real man. Come up hither. You lot await terrible. I desire y'all to eat. I want yous to balance a while, and in a month from at present, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna give you what you want.

Johnny: It's as well late, they start shooting in a week.

Vito: I'yard gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. Now, y'all just go outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I desire you, I want you to leave it all to me.

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

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Vito Corleone: [to Sollozzo] I must say no to y'all, and I'll give you lot my reasons. It'southward truthful, I take a lot of friends in politics, merely they wouldn't be friendly very long if they knew my business concern was drugs instead of gambling, which they regard equally a – a harmless vice. But drugs is a dirty business. Information technology makes, it doesn't make any difference to me what a man does for a living, empathise. Just your business is, uh, a little unsafe.

Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo: If you lot're worried nearly security for your million, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.

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

Vito: Expect a infinitesimal. I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as you can run across. They talk when they should mind. Only anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate y'all on your new business concern. I know you'll practise very well, and good luck to you, especially since your interests don't disharmonize with mine. Thank you. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come here. What'southward the thing with you? I recollect your encephalon's going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that young girl. Never tell everyone exterior the family what you're thinking again.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your boss is dead. I know you're not in the musculus-end of the family, Tom, so I don't want you to be scared. I want yous to assist the Corleones, and I want you to help me. [hands Tom a potable.] Yeah, we got him outside his role just about an hour after we picked you up. Drink information technology. So now information technology's upwardly to you to brand the peace between me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my idea, wasn't he? And you knew it was the right thing to do.

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

Sollozzo: That'll be his first reaction, sure. That'south why yous gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family is behind me with all their people. The other New York families will get forth with annihilation that will prevent a full-scale state of war. Let's face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, rest in peace, was slipping. Ten years agone, could I have gotten to him? Well, at present, he's expressionless. He's expressionless, Tom, and null can bring him back, and then you lot gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fat Clemenza. Information technology'southward skilful business, Tom.

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

Sollozzo: Yeah, well, permit me worry nigh Luca. Yous just talk to Sonny and the other 2 kids.

Tom: I'll exercise my best.

Sollozzo: Skilful. Now, you lot tin go. I don't like violence, Tom. I'1000 a business man. Claret is a big expense. [receives news from an arriving car] He's still alive. They hit him with five shots, and he's nonetheless alive! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for you if you don't make that deal!

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

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

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

• Annotation: The line in bold was nominated for the American Film Constitute's list of the summit 100 picture show quotations.

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Tom Hagen: This is business, not personal!

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: They shot my father. Information technology's business, your ass!

Tom: Even shooting your begetter was business, not personal, Sonny!

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Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, right? Information technology will be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Let's set the coming together. Go our informers to notice out where it's gonna exist held. Now, nosotros insist it'southward a public identify, a bar, a restaurant, some place where in that location's people so I feel safe. They're gonna search me when I kickoff meet them, right? So I can't have a weapon on me then. Simply if Clemenza can figure a way, to take a weapon planted in that location for me, then I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna exercise, nice college boy, eh? Didn't desire to get mixed upwardly in the family unit business concern huh? Now yous wanna gun downwards a police captain. Why? Because he slapped you in the confront a fiddling scrap? Hah? What practise you think this is, the Regular army? Where yous shoot 'em a mile away? Y'all've gotta get upwards shut like this and bada-bing! You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael's head.] You're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that you can't impale a cop? I'thou talking most a cop that'southward mixed upwards in drugs. I'm talking nigh a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed upwards in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It'due south not personal, Sonny. It'due south strictly business.

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Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as common cold as they come up, impossible to trace, so y'all don't worry most prints, Mike. I put a special record on the trigger and the butt. Hither, try it. [Michael takes the revolver] What'sa matter? The trigger too tight?

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

Clemenza: Aye, I left information technology noisy. That mode, it scares whatsoever pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away. All correct, y'all shot 'em both. Now what do you exercise?

Michael: Sit down, finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come on, kid. Don't fool around. Just allow your manus drop to your side, and permit the gun sideslip out. Everybody'll still remember yous got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike, and so walk out of the identify real fast, but don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, just you don't expect away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared stiff of you, believe me, and so don't worry virtually nothing. Y'all know, you gonna turn out all right. Yous take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna catch the hell.

Michael: How bad do you lot recollect it's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families will line up confronting united states. That'south all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to become rid of the bad blood. Been 10 years since the last one. You know, you lot gotta stop 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never take allow him get abroad with that. They was just asking for big trouble. You know, Mike, we was all proud of y'all, being a hero and all. Your begetter, 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 encounter the three men watching her. She and Michael exchange looks.]

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

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

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Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Did you lot accept a skilful hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] You know all the girls around here? We saw some real beauties. 1 of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt. She would tempt the devil himself. Really put together. Such pilus, such mouth!

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

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

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

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] My God, I understand! [gets upwardly to look at the buffet.]

Michael Corleone: [to Calo, in Sicilian] What's incorrect?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Let's go. It's his daughter.

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 yous. I'm a stranger in this country and I meant no disrespect, to yous or your daughter. I'm an American hiding in Sicily. My name is Michael Corleone. There are people who'd pay a lot of money for that information, only and so your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a married man. I want to run into your daughter with your permission and under the supervision of your family with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come up to my house Sunday morning. My proper name is Vitelli.

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

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

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

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

Vito: Simply you lot needed a drink outset.

Tom: Yeah.

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

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

Vito: I want no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want yous to suit a coming together with the heads of the V Families. This war stops at present.

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

Don Emilio Barzini: We're all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this coming together. We all know him equally a human being of his give-and-take. A modest man who will always listen to reason.

Don Phillip Tattaglia: Yes, 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 e'er refuse an accommodation? All of you know me here. When did I ever refuse, except one fourth dimension? And why? Considering I believe this drug business is gonna destroy the states in the years to come. I mean, it's not like gambling or liquor, even women, which is something that most people desire present and it'south forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church building. Even the law departments have helped u.s. in the by with gambling and other things. They're gonna refuse to aid u.s.a. when information technology comes to narcotics. And I believed that so, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times have changed. It's non similar the erstwhile days when we could practise annihilation nosotros want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must permit united states depict the water from the well. Certainly, he can nowadays a pecker 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 practice that kind of business concern. Somebody comes to them and says, "I take powders. If you put upward three, four thousand dollar investment, nosotros can brand fifty chiliad distributing." So they tin can't resist. I desire to control it as a business, to proceed it respectable. I don't want information technology well-nigh schools! I don't desire it sold to children! That'south an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the nighttime people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.

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

Barzini: Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs volition be permitted, simply controlled, and Don Corleone will give us protection in the east, and there volition be the peace.

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

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

Vito: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you lot 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 because of all this Solozzo business. All right. Now I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely, but I'yard a superstitious man, and if some unlucky blow should befall him—if he should get shot in the caput by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his cell, or if he's struck by a commodities of lightning—then I'm going to arraign some of the people in this room. And that, I practise not forgive. Only that aside, let me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made here today.

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

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

Tom: Y'all hateful Tattaglia?

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

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Michael Corleone: I'yard working for my male parent now. He'south been sick, very sick.

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

Michael: My father's no different than any other powerful human – whatever man who's responsible for other people, similar a senator or a president.

Kay: [laughs] You know how naïve you sound?

Michael: Why?

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

Michael: Oh, who's being naïve, Kay? Kay, my father's way of doing things is over, information technology's finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in five years, the Corleone family is going to be completely legitimate. Trust me. That'southward all I can tell y'all well-nigh my business organisation.

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

Michael Corleone: You straightened my blood brother out?

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

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

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Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna have to become 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 repent—to take care of my family. And I refused to exist a fool dancing on a string held by all of those large shots. I don't apologize. That's my life, but I thought that when information technology was your fourth dimension, that you would be the ane to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

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

Michael: Nosotros'll go there, Popular. We'll go at that place.

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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I hope Mike can get us a good deal.

Tom Hagen: I'm sure he volition.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Dominate says he'll come in a divide car. He says for yous two to get on ahead.

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

Cicci: Well, that's what he said.

Tom: I tin't get either, Sal.

[Several button men close in around Tessio]

Sal: Tell Mike information technology was merely concern. I always liked him.

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

Sal: Tom, can yous become me off the hook, for old time's sake?

Tom: Tin't do it, Emerge.

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

Michael Corleone: You accept to answer for Santino, Carlo.

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

Michael: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ah, that trivial farce you played with my sister. Did you call up that would fool a Corleone?

Carlo: Mike, I'm innocent. I swear on my kids. Please don't practice 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 unit business concern, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Acknowledge what y'all did. [Carlo breaks down] Get him a drink. Come on. Don't exist afraid, Carlo. Come on. Yous recall I'd brand my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a beverage] Get ahead, drink. Drink. No, Carlo, y'all're out of the family business, that's your punishment. We're finished. I'one thousand putting you on a airplane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a aeroplane ticket] I desire y'all to stay there, understand? Only, don't tell me you're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. Information technology makes me very angry. Now who approached y'all: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: It was Barzini.

Michael: Good. There's a automobile waiting for yous outside, it'll take you lot to the airport. I'll call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, it was—

Michael: Get on. Leave of my sight.

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

Peter Clemenza: Hey, Carlo. [strangles Carlo]

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[Connie has only 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 business organisation, Kay.

Kay: Is it true?

Michael: Don't ask me well-nigh my business concern.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk] Plenty! All right, this in one case. This one fourth dimension, I'll let y'all ask me most my affairs.

Kay: Is it truthful? Is it?

Michael: No.

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

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael's paw 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 – Helm 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

Come across also [edit]

• The Godfather: Role II
• The Godfather: Function III

External links [edit]

meltonwitheitay.blogspot.com

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

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