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 Release Date  Director – Francis Ford Coppola  Screenplay – Mario Puzo  Marlon Brando – Don Vito Corleone  Al Pacino – Michael  James Caan – Sonny  Robert Duvall – Tom  Diane Keaton – Kay Adams  Talia Shire (Coppola’s sister)- Connie

 100% Positive Rating on Rotten Tomatoes  AFI #2 Film of all time  Nominated for 11 Academy Awards  Won Oscars for best picture, best writing, best actor (Brando)  Setting – 1940’s – 1950’s, New York mafia family  Son returning from war  Considered by many the best mafia film of all time

 175 minutes long - longest film on our list  Rated R – first R rated film for the class.  Brando wore a mouthpiece to create effect, cotton balls for screen test  Real horsehead – real scream!  Vegas scene set in 1950’s - hippies in the background

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