One Time Offer You Will Never See This Again

I'thousand gonna brand him an offering he tin't refuse. Now, you but go outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want you, I want you to leave it all to me.

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

Leave the gun. Accept the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 moving-picture show nigh a Mafia crime family unit and the outbreak of a New York City gang state of war in the late 1940s.

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

An offering you can't refuse.

Vito Corleone [edit]

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

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

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

• Yous cannot say "no" to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And and then when you lot do, it has to audio like a "yep" or yous have to make them say "no." You take to take time and trouble.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

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

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I fabricated my bones when you 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 fashion. I gave her liberty, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She establish a fellow, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protestation. Two months agone he took her for a bulldoze, with another boy friend. They fabricated her drink whiskey and so they tried to take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor, so they shell her similar an animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was cleaved. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn't even weep because of the hurting, but I wept. Why did I cry? She was the light of my life. A beautiful daughter. At present she will never exist beautiful once again. [sobs] Pitiful. I went to the police, like a good American. These ii boys were brought to trial. The approximate sentenced them to three years in prison house, and suspended the sentence. Suspended judgement! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. So I said to my married woman, "For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."

Don Vito Corleone: Why did y'all become to the police? Why didn't you come up to me first?

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

Vito: What is that?

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

Vito: That I cannot do.

Bonasera: I volition requite you anything you enquire.

Vito: Nosotros've known each other many years, but this is the first fourth dimension you ever came to me for counsel or for assist. I can't remember the terminal time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, fifty-fifty though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let'southward exist frank here. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, yous were afraid to be in my debt.

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

Vito: I sympathise. You lot constitute paradise in America, you lot had a good trade, you lot fabricated a skilful living, the law protected you, and there were courts of law. You didn't need a friend like me. Simply, now you come up to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't enquire with respect. You lot don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my business firm on the twenty-four hours my daughter is to be married, and you lot ask me to exercise murder for money.

Bonasera: I ask for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your daughter is all the same alive.

Bonasera: Let them suffer and then, equally she suffers. How much shall I pay you lot?

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I ever washed to make you treat me and so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if past gamble an honest man like yourself should make enemies, and then they would go my enemies. And so they would fear you.

Bonasera: Be my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito's paw]

Vito: Good. Someday—and that twenty-four hour period may never come—I'll call upon yous to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice equally a gift on my girl'south wedding twenty-four hour period.

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 away. After all, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks.

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Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a large band leader. And every bit his career got better and better, he wanted to go out of it. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to see this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. But the band leader said no. So the next solar day, my father went to see him, but this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1,000.

Kay: How'd he practise that?

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

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 exist on the contract. That'southward a true story. That'southward my family, Kay. Information technology's not me.

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Johnny Fontane: A month ago, he [Woltz] bought the motion-picture show rights to this book, a all-time-seller, and the main graphic symbol, it's a guy just like me. I, uh, I wouldn't even have to act, only be myself. [choking upward] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

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

Johnny: Sure I do.

Vito: Practiced, considering a man who doesn't spend time with his family tin can never be a real man. Come here. Yous look terrible. I want you to swallow. I want you to rest a while, and in a month from at present, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna give you what yous want.

Johnny: It's too tardily, they start shooting in a calendar week.

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

• The line in assuming is ranked #2 in American Film Institute's listing of the acme 100 movie quotations.

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Vito Corleone: [to Sollozzo] I must say no to you, and I'll give you my reasons. It's true, I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be 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 organization. Information technology makes, it doesn't make any deviation to me what a man does for a living, sympathise. Merely your business is, uh, a little unsafe.

Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo: If y'all're worried nearly security for your one thousand thousand, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.

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

Vito: Await a minute. I take a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should listen. Simply anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate yous on your new business. I know you'll exercise very well, and good luck to you, specially since your interests don't conflict with mine. Thank you. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come here. What's the matter with you lot? I call up your brain'southward going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that young daughter. Never tell everyone outside the family what you're thinking once more.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your boss is dead. I know you're not in the muscle-finish of the family, Tom, then I don't desire you to be scared. I want y'all to help the Corleones, and I want you lot to help me. [hands Tom a drink.] Yeah, nosotros got him outside his office just nearly an hr later on we picked you up. Drink it. Then now it's up to you to make the peace betwixt me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my idea, wasn't he? And you knew information technology 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 you lot gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family is behind me with all their people. The other New York families volition go along with anything that volition forbid a full-scale war. Permit'southward face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, balance in peace, was slipping. Ten years ago, could I have gotten to him? Well, now, he's dead. He'southward dead, Tom, and nothing tin bring him back, so you lot gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fat Clemenza. It'due south expert business, Tom.

Tom: I'll try, just fifty-fifty Sonny won't be able to phone call off Luca Brasi.

Sollozzo: Yeah, well, let me worry most Luca. Yous just talk to Sonny and the other two kids.

Tom: I'll do my all-time.

Sollozzo: Good. At present, you lot can go. I don't like violence, Tom. I'chiliad a business man. Blood is a large expense. [receives news from an arriving car] He'due south notwithstanding alive. They hit him with 5 shots, and he's nonetheless live! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for you if you lot don't brand that deal!

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

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

Salvatore Tessio: Information technology'due south a Sicilian message. It ways Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

• Note: The line in bold was nominated for the American Film Institute's list of the superlative 100 movie quotations.

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Tom Hagen: This is business concern, not personal!

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

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

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Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, right? It volition be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Let's set the meeting. Get our informers to discover out where information technology'due south gonna be held. Now, we insist it'south a public place, a bar, a eatery, some place where at that place's people so I feel safe. They're gonna search me when I kickoff meet them, correct? And then I can't have a weapon on me then. Only if Clemenza tin figure a way, to take a weapon planted there for me, and so I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna practice, dainty higher male child, eh? Didn't want to get mixed upwardly in the family business huh? Now y'all wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Considering he slapped you in the face a piddling bit? Hah? What do you think this is, the Army? Where you shoot 'em a mile abroad? You've gotta get upwards shut like this and bada-bing! You blow their brains all over your squeamish Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael'south head.] You're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does information technology say that y'all can't kill a cop? I'chiliad talking nigh a cop that's mixed upwardly in drugs. I'm talking nigh a quack cop and a crooked cop who got mixed upwards in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It's not personal, Sonny. It'south strictly business.

---

Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as cold equally they come, incommunicable to trace, and then yous don't worry virtually prints, Mike. I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt. Here, attempt it. [Michael takes the revolver] What'sa matter? The trigger too tight?

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

Clemenza: Yeah, I left information technology noisy. That way, it scares any hurting-in-the-donkey innocent bystanders abroad. All correct, y'all shot 'em both. Now what do you lot practise?

Michael: Sit down, finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come up on, child. Don't fool around. Merely permit your paw drop to your side, and permit the gun slip out. Everybody'll still recall you got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike, and then walk out of the identify real fast, merely don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, merely you lot don't look away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared potent of y'all, believe me, so don't worry about nothing. You lot know, you gonna turn out all right. You take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna catch the hell.

Michael: How bad practise you call up it's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families volition line up against us. That'south all right. These things gotta happen every five years or and so, ten years. Helps to become rid of the bad blood. Been x years since the last one. You know, you gotta terminate 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have permit him get away with that. They was simply asking for big trouble. You know, Mike, we was all proud of you, being a hero and all. Your father, too.

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

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

Fabrizio: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I think 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 have a good hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Yous know all the girls effectually 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 pilus, such mouth!

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] The girls effectually hither are beautiful just virtuous.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] This one had a purple apparel and a purple ribbon in her hair. A type more Greek than Italian. Do y'all know her?

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] No! At that place'due south no girl like that in his town.

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

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

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

Michael: [in Sicilian] Tell him to come here. Phone call him. Fabrizio, you translate.

Fabrizio: Si, signor.

Michael: [with Fabrizio translating] I apologize if I offended you. I'1000 a stranger in this country and I meant no disrespect, to y'all or your girl. 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, but so your girl would lose a father instead of gaining a hubby. I want to meet your daughter with your permission and nether the supervision of your family with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come to my house Dominicus morning. My proper noun 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 married woman is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the firm. Consigliere of mine, I recollect you should tell your Don what everyone seems to know.

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

Vito: But you needed a drink showtime.

Tom: Yeah.

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

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

Vito: I want no inquiries fabricated. I want no acts of vengeance. I desire y'all to arrange a coming together with the heads of the Five 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 then far? I don't know. It was then unfortunate, and so unnecessary. Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son. We're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees, so I'm willing to let things go on the mode 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 pocket-size homo who will always mind 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 e'er turn down an accommodation? All of y'all know me hither. When did I ever refuse, except one time? And why? Because I believe this drug business organization is gonna destroy us in the years to come. I hateful, it's not like gambling or liquor, even women, which is something that nearly people desire present and it's forbidden to them past the pezzonovantes in the church. Even the police departments accept helped us in the past with gambling and other things. They're gonna refuse to help usa when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that then, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times accept inverse. Information technology'south not similar the old days when we could do anything nosotros desire. A refusal is non the human action of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must permit us draw the water from the well. Certainly, he can nowadays a neb 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 do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders. If you put upwardly 3, 4 k dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing." And then they can't resist. I want to command it every bit a business, to keep it respectable. I don't desire it nigh schools! I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my metropolis, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.

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

Barzini: Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs volition be permitted, just controlled, and Don Corleone will give u.s. protection in the east, and in that location will exist the peace.

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

Barzini: Look, we are all reasonable men hither. We don't take to give assurances equally if we were lawyers.

Vito: You talk near vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my male child to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. But I have selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to leave this land because of all this Solozzo concern. All correct. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back here safely, just I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky blow should befall him—if he should become shot in the caput past a law officeholder, or if he should hang himself in his jail prison cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning—and so I'm going to arraign some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive. But that aside, let me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will non be the 1 to break the peace that we take made here today.

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

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

Tom: You mean Tattaglia?

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

---

Michael Corleone: I'1000 working for my male parent now. He'due south been sick, very ill.

Kay Adams: But you're non like him, Michael. I thought you weren't going to go a homo similar your father. That'southward what you told me.

Michael: My father's no dissimilar than whatever other powerful man – any homo 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'southward beingness naïve, Kay? Kay, my father's fashion 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 can tell you most my business.

---

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

Michael Corleone: You straightened my brother out?

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

Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're my older blood brother, and I dearest you, but don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again, e'er.

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Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna accept to get 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 intendance of my family. And I refused to exist a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologize. That'due south my life, but I thought that when information technology was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

Vito: Well, at that place wasn't plenty time, Michael. Wasn't plenty time.

Michael: Nosotros'll get there, Pop. We'll get there.

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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I hope Mike can go usa a good deal.

Tom Hagen: I'm sure he volition.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Dominate says he'll come in a separate machine. He says for you two to go on ahead.

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

Cicci: Well, that'south what he said.

Tom: I can't become either, Sal.

[Several button men close in around Tessio]

Sal: Tell Mike it was but business. I always liked him.

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

Sal: Tom, can you go me off the hook, for former time's sake?

Tom: Tin't do it, Emerge.

---

[While Carlo dials the telephone, 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: Y'all have to respond for Santino, Carlo.

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

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

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

Michael: Sit down.

Carlo: Delight don't do this. Please.

Michael: Barzini's expressionless. So is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family unit business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Admit what you did. [Carlo breaks down] Go him a drinkable. Come up on. Don't be afraid, Carlo. Come on. You call up I'd make my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a drink] Go ahead, drinkable. Drink. No, Carlo, you're out of the family unit business, that's your penalty. We're finished. I'chiliad putting you on a plane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a aeroplane ticket] I want yous to stay there, understand? Only, don't tell me y'all're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. It makes me very angry. At present who approached you lot: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: It was Barzini.

Michael: Good. There's a car waiting for you outside, information technology'll take you to the airdrome. I'll telephone call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, information technology was—

Michael: Get on. Go out of my sight.

[Carlo gets in the motorcar and notices Clemenza sitting behind 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 enquire me about my business concern, Kay.

Kay: Is information technology true?

Michael: Don't ask me about my business organization.

Kay: No!

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

Kay: Is it true? Is it?

Michael: No.

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

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael's hand 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 – Captain 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]

akbarsomakingdon61.blogspot.com

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

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