I Want to Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself Again-sly and the Family Stone

I'g gonna brand him an offer he can't refuse. Now, you but go exterior and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want yous, I desire you to leave it all to me.

Where does it say that you can't kill a cop? I'm talking nigh a cop that's mixed upward in drugs. I'm talking about a dishonest cop and a kleptomaniacal cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It's non personal, Sonny. It's strictly business organisation.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 flick about a Mafia criminal offence family and the outbreak of a New York Metropolis gang state of war in the belatedly 1940s.

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

An offer you 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 encounter him this style. [pulls sheet to reveal Sonny's bullet-ridden torso] Wait how they massacred my male child.

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

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

• You cannot say "no" to the people you dear, non often. That's the undercover. And then when yous do, it has to sound like a "aye" or you have to make them say "no." You accept to take fourth dimension and trouble.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

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

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bitch! Do yous 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 fabricated my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a young man, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out belatedly. I didn't protest. Two months agone he took her for a bulldoze, with some other boy friend. They made her drink whiskey and so they tried to take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor, and so they beat her like an animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was cleaved. Her jaw was shattered, held together past wire. She couldn't even cry considering of the pain, but I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. A beautiful girl. At present she will never exist cute once more. [sobs] Deplorable. I went to the police, like a skillful American. These two boys were brought to trial. The estimate sentenced them to three years in prison house, and suspended the sentence. Suspended judgement! They went free that very twenty-four hour period! I stood in the court similar a fool, and those 2 bastards, they smiled at me. So 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 lot come up to me first?

Bonasera: What do you want of me? Tell me anything, but do what I beg you lot to practice.

Vito: What is that?

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

Vito: That I cannot do.

Bonasera: I volition give you anything you ask.

Vito: We've known each other many years, only this is the start time you ever came to me for counsel or for aid. I tin can't remember the final time that yous invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But allow'south exist frank here. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, yous were agape to be in my debt.

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

Vito: I understand. You found paradise in America, you had a skilful merchandise, yous made a proficient living, the police protected you, and there were courts of law. You lot didn't need a friend like me. But, at present you come to me, and yous say: "Don Corleone, requite me justice." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offering friendship. You don't fifty-fifty call back to telephone call me Godfather. Instead, you come up into my house on the day my girl is to be married, and yous ask me to do murder for money.

Bonasera: I enquire for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your girl is still alive.

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

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What accept I always done to make you care for me so disrespectfully? If yous'd come to me in friendship, and so that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if past take chances an honest human similar yourself should make enemies, then they would go my enemies. And then they would fearfulness you.

Bonasera: Be my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito'due south mitt]

Vito: Good. Someday—and that twenty-four hour period may never come—I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, take this justice every bit a gift on my daughter's nuptials 24-hour interval.

Bonasera: Grazie, Godfather.

Vito: Prego. [Bonasera leaves, and Don Corleone turns to Tom] Requite this to, uh, Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried abroad. Subsequently 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 as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of information technology. At present, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to run across this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. Simply the band leader said no. Then the next day, my father went to see him, only this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hr, he signed a release, for a certified check for $one,000.

Kay: How'd he do that?

Michael: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Kay: What was that?

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

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Johnny Fontane: A month ago, he [Woltz] bought the flick rights to this book, a all-time-seller, and the main character, it'due south a guy just like me. I, uh, I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. [choking up] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to practice.

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

Johnny: Sure I do.

Vito: Good, because a human who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. Come here. You expect terrible. I want you to eat. I want you to balance a while, and in a month from now, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna give you what you desire.

Johnny: It'south likewise belatedly, they start shooting in a calendar week.

Vito: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't decline. Now, yous just go exterior and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget well-nigh all this nonsense. I want yous, I want you to leave it all to me.

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

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

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

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

Vito: Expect a minute. I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as you tin meet. They talk when they should heed. Simply anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate you on your new concern. I know you'll practice very well, and good luck to you, peculiarly since your interests don't conflict with mine. Thank y'all. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come here. What's the thing with you? I think your encephalon'due south going soft from all that one-act you're playing with that young daughter. Never tell everyone outside the family what y'all're thinking again.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your boss is expressionless. I know you're not in the muscle-end of the family, Tom, so I don't desire you lot to exist scared. I want you to help the Corleones, and I want yous to assist me. [hands Tom a drink.] Yeah, we got him outside his office just about an hr afterwards we picked y'all upwardly. Drink it. Then now it's up 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 practice.

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

Sollozzo: That'll exist his showtime reaction, certain. That'south why you gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family is behind me with all their people. The other New York families will go along with annihilation that will prevent a full-scale war. Allow's face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, rest in peace, was slipping. 10 years ago, could I have gotten to him? Well, now, he's expressionless. He'south dead, Tom, and zip can bring him back, so you lot gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fat Clemenza. Information technology's good business, Tom.

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

Sollozzo: Yeah, well, let me worry nearly Luca. You lot just talk to Sonny and the other ii kids.

Tom: I'll practise my all-time.

Sollozzo: Good. At present, you lot tin can go. I don't like violence, Tom. I'thousand a business human being. Blood is a big expense. [receives news from an arriving auto] He'due south still live. They hit him with five shots, and he's still alive! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for y'all if you don't make that bargain!

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[Sonny opens a package to find two fish wrapped in Luca's impenetrable belong.]

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

Salvatore Tessio: It'southward a Sicilian message. Information technology means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

• Annotation: The line in assuming was nominated for the American Picture show Institute's list of the top 100 picture show quotations.

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Michael: Who are you?

Enzo: I am Enzo, the bakery. Yous recollect me?

Michael: Enzo.

Enzo: Yeah, Enzo.

Michael: You'd better exit of here, Enzo, at that place's gonna be problem.

Enzo: If in that location is trouble, I'll stay here to help yous. For your father. For your father.

Michael: Mind. Wait for me exterior in front end of the hospital, all right? I'll be out in a minute. Get ahead.

Enzo: OK, OK.

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Tom Hagen: This is business concern, not personal!

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: They shot my male parent. Information technology'southward business, your ass!

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

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Michael Corleone: They wanna take a meeting with me, right? Information technology will be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Let's set the meeting. Become our informers to find out where information technology'due south gonna be held. Now, we insist information technology's a public place, a bar, a restaurant, some identify where there's people so I feel prophylactic. They're gonna search me when I offset run across them, right? So I can't take a weapon on me then. But if Clemenza can figure a manner, to have 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 practise, nice college boy, eh? Didn't desire to get mixed upwards in the family business concern huh? Now you lot wanna gun downward a police helm. Why? Because he slapped you in the face a little flake? Hah? What practice you remember this is, the Army? Where you shoot 'em a mile abroad? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing! You accident their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael'southward head.] You're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that y'all tin't kill a cop? I'g talking about a cop that's mixed upward in drugs. I'm talking almost a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. Information technology's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.

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

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

Clemenza: Yeah, I left it noisy. That mode, it scares any pain-in-the-donkey innocent bystanders abroad. All right, you shot 'em both. At present what exercise you do?

Michael: Sit down downwardly, terminate my dinner.

Clemenza: Come up on, child. Don't fool around. Just permit your manus drop to your side, and let the gun sideslip out. Everybody'll however think you got information technology. They're gonna exist staring at your face, Mike, so walk out of the place real fast, but don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the middle, but you don't expect away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared strong of you, believe me, so don't worry most zilch. You know, you lot gonna turn out all right. You accept a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna catch the hell.

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

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families will line up against us. That's all right. These things gotta happen every v years or so, ten years. Helps to become rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You lot know, you gotta end 'em at the starting time, similar they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never accept allow him become away with that. They was just asking for big problem. Yous know, Mike, we was all proud of you, beingness a hero and all. Your father, besides.

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

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

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

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

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

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Yous know all the girls around hither? We saw some real beauties. One 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 effectually here are cute but virtuous.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] This 1 had a purple dress and a regal ribbon in her pilus. A blazon more Greek than Italian. Do y'all know her?

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

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] My God, I sympathise! [gets up to expect at the buffet.]

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

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

Michael: [in Sicilian] Tell him to come here. Phone call him. Fabrizio, you lot 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 boldness, to you lot or your daughter. I'm an American hiding in Sicily. My name is Michael Corleone. In that location are people who'd pay a lot of money for that information, only then your girl would lose a father instead of gaining a married man. I want to run across your daughter with your permission and under the supervision of your family with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come to my business firm Sun morning. My name is Vitelli.

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

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

---

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

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

Vito: But you needed a drink outset.

Tom: Yeah.

Vito: Well, at present you lot've had your drink.

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

Vito: I desire no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want y'all to suit a coming together with the heads of the 5 Families. This war stops now.

---

Don Vito Corleone: [to the heads of the 5 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'm willing to let things go on the manner they were before.

Don Emilio Barzini: We're all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this meeting. We all know him as a man of his word. A modest 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 refuse an accommodation? All of you know me here. When did I ever refuse, except i time? And why? Considering I believe this drug business is gonna destroy us in the years to come up. I mean, information technology's not similar gambling or liquor, even women, which is something that well-nigh people want present and information technology'southward forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church building. Even the police departments have helped the states in the past with gambling and other things. They're gonna pass up to help us when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that and so, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times have changed. Information technology's not like the old days when nosotros could do annihilation we 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 allow us draw the water from the well. Certainly, he can nowadays 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 practice that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders. If you lot put up three, four one thousand dollar investment, we can brand fifty thousand distributing." So they can't resist. I want to control information technology equally a business, to keep it respectable. I don't want information technology near schools! I don't want information technology sold to children! That'due south an infamia. In my metropolis, we would go along 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 hither and reason together. And as a reasonable man, I'm willing to exercise any is necessary to detect a peaceful solution to these problems.

Barzini: Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs will be permitted, but controlled, and Don Corleone will 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 past and his position becomes stronger, volition he attempt whatever individual vendetta?

Barzini: Expect, we are all reasonable men hither. We don't accept to give assurances as if we were lawyers.

Vito: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son dorsum to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. Simply I accept selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to get out this country because of all this Solozzo business organization. All correct. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back hither safely, just I'k a superstitious homo, and if some unlucky accident should befall him—if he should get shot in the head by a police force officer, or if he should hang himself in his prison cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning—and then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive. But that aside, allow me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will non exist the one to break the peace that we have made here today.

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

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

Tom: You hateful 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'chiliad working for my father at present. He'due south been ill, very ill.

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

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

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

Michael: Why?

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

Michael: Oh, who's beingness naïve, Kay? Kay, my father'due south way of doing things is over, information technology's finished. Fifty-fifty he knows that. I hateful, in five years, the Corleone family is going to be completely legitimate. Trust me. That's all I tin can tell you about my business organization.

---

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

Michael Corleone: You straightened my brother out?

---

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

Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you lot, merely don't ever take sides with anyone against the family over again, always.

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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 yous. I worked my whole life—I don't apologize—to take care of my family unit. And I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held past all of those big shots. I don't apologize. That'due south my life, just I thought that when it was your time, that you would exist the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

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

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

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

Tom Hagen: I'm sure he volition.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Boss says he'll come in a carve up car. He says for y'all two to proceed ahead.

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

Cicci: Well, that'southward what he said.

Tom: I can't go 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 claw, for quondam time'southward 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 lot have to reply for Santino, Carlo.

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

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

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

Michael: Sit downwards.

Carlo: Please don't practise this. Please.

Michael: Barzini'southward dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family unit business, and then don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Acknowledge what yous did. [Carlo breaks down] Get him a beverage. Come up on. Don't be agape, Carlo. Come on. You recall I'd make my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a beverage] Go ahead, drink. Drink. No, Carlo, you're out of the family business organization, that's your punishment. We're finished. I'1000 putting yous on a plane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a plane ticket] I want yous to stay there, sympathise? Only, don't tell me you're innocent, considering it insults my intelligence. It makes me very angry. Now who approached you: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: Information technology was Barzini.

Michael: Good. In that location'due south a car waiting for you exterior, it'll take you to the airport. I'll call your wife and tell her what flying y'all're on.

Carlo: Mike, it was—

Michael: Proceed. Go 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 well-nigh my business, Kay.

Kay: Is information technology true?

Michael: Don't ask me about my business.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk] Enough! All correct, this ane time. This one time, I'll let you inquire me nigh my affairs.

Kay: Is it true? Is information technology?

Michael: No.

Kay: I guess nosotros both need a beverage, huh? Come on.

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael'due south mitt as 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

See also [edit]

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

External links [edit]

masonmotosed.blogspot.com

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

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