The Godfather Part II (1974)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Moviegoers rooted for villains like James Cagney in White Heat and Angels with Dirty Faces, but Al Pacino’s performance as Michael Corleone goes far darker places.
Moviegoers rooted for villains like James Cagney in White Heat and Angels with Dirty Faces, but Al Pacino’s performance as Michael Corleone goes far darker places.
A more playful vampire movie than Browning's classic 1931 "Dracula," with Bela Lugosi and two hammy Lionels--Barrymore and Atwill--cavorting in an old mansion thriller, with a nifty surprise ending.
Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 classic, "The Godfather," is to gangster films what Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" was to super spectaculars.
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In a crazy way, “The Godfather” and its sequel belong in the same category with those other epics of immigrant achievement in America, “ The Emigrants ” and “The New Land.”
Some people argue that Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather, Part II" and not "Citizen Kane" is the greatest movie ever made, and they have a point--but only if you put the entire "Godfather" trilogy up against "Kane."