The Godfather

The Godfather might be among the best mafia primarily based movies of its time with an all-star cast that delivers an impressive film for everyone to enjoy. Marlon Brando performs Don Vito Corleone who is getting older in years and who's looking for his sons and household to run the family "mafia" business. Al Pacino stars as Don Corleone's war hero son who is completely happy to stay out of the family enterprise, which pleases his father.

Don Corleone is asked by a man named Virgil Solozzo, (Al Lettieri), a key participant within the medicine enterprise working throughout the Tattalia Crime household to finance his narcotics business and to guarantee him safety and crucial political contacts that will see him revenue and assure the Corleone's a 30% lower of the takings. Tom Hagen, (Robert Duvall) and Sonny Corleone, (James Cann) recognise that there are big future income and progress potential in dealing in narcotics. However, Don Corleone senses distrust in Solozzo and rejects the deal as it might be bad for the family.

Solozzo shouldn't be content with the rejection and desires more energy and demands retribution by making an attempt to kill Don Corleone and by killing Corleone's loyal good friend,. Luca Brasi.(Lenny Montana). When Michael Corleone visits his father Don Corleone on the hospital after the failed hit, he quickly discovers that Solozzo's males are coming back to finish his father off. Nevertheless, earlier than that he learns that nobody was guarding his father on the hospital, not even Tessio's men, which raises suspicion of his involvement. Michael saves his father from being killed but is badly beaten by the bent cop, Captain McCluskey, (Sterling Hayden) who is clearly on the payroll of Solozzo.

The scene is now set for a way the Corleone family will respond to being focused by Solozzo and the response is memorable and surprising and lets us know that Michael is truly a Corleone at heart. Michael decides that he will kill Solozzo and Captain McCluskey in order to save his father's life. This ensures that Michael will at all times be concerned in the mafia enterprise and his father is initially shocked as he needed Michael to stay out of that side of the business. Nevertheless, Michael soon suits nicely into his role because the new boss of the Corleone household and takes care of unfinished enterprise with all those concerned in trying to kill his father.

Nevertheless, as a consequence of killing Solozzo, it ends in Sonny being arrange and killed by these working with the Tatallia family, which included Barzini and Carlo Rizzi, (Gianni Russo) who was married to sonny's sister Connie, (Talia Shire).

During Michael's reign as boss of the family, he's told by his father how Don Barzini, (Richard Conte), one of the different head's of one other mafia family will goal him and it would be organized with somebody he can trust. This leads to Michael identifying the traitor throughout the Corleone family as Tessio, (Abe Vigoda) who's led off to be killed for his betrayal.

Carlo receives his reward for being a traitor when he is killed in the automotive by Peter Clemenza, (Richard Castellano) who's considered one of beatbox cover Corleone's soldiers. Barzini can be killed along with all different rivals who have gone towards the Corleone family. We are now left with Michael Corleone showing his ruthlessness as head of the household business.