One of the most famous films of the gangster genre is 'The godfather' made in about 1970/1 and released in 1972, Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo it's a tale of Mafia life in America during the 1940s and '50s. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the family patriarch balancing a love of his family with an ambitious criminal instinct. At the wedding of the don's daughter, Connie (Talia Shire), youngest son Michael (Al Pacino), a decorated war veteran, is reunited with his family. After an assassination attempt leaves the Godfather too ill to run the family business, sons Michael and Sonny (James Caan), with the help Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), lead the Corleones into a vendetta-filled war with the other mob families. …
