Synopsis
Inspired by
Mario Puzo's novel,
The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned films 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.
