For most cinephiles, and Mafia movie aficionados, The Godfather is untouchable, to reference another example from the genre.

Editor’s note: “The Godfather” was released 50 years ago this month. This review appeared in America on March 25, 1972. The original grammar and style elements are preserved here. With The Godfather, ...

Mobs attracted to the theaters where “The Godfather” had its openings yesterday, at Cinema 21 here as well as in other cities, attest to the certainty that this motion picture version of Mario Puzo’s ...

The Godfather (1972) introduces Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), a World War II veteran, as the quiet, sensitive son of a mafia ...

"The Godfather" holds a revered position in film history, with the Corleone crime family saga – starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan – perched at No. 2 on the American Film Institute's ...

Few people create a hit movie. Fewer still create a blockbuster. Fewer still create a critically acclaimed movie classic with staying power. Francis Ford Coppola managed to do all three when he ...

Exactly 50 years ago, in the spring of 1972, my friend Bob and I put on black shirts and white ties (for some reason that’s what we thought guys in the Mafia wore) and got on line to see “The ...

In early 2024, a post on X went viral with a claim that real members of organized crime were involved in the making of the 1972 movie "The Godfather." "The mob actively followed the actors and ...

“Beware the ides of March,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar. Like their ancient forebear, Italian-Americans should have heeded such an augury. For on March 14, 1972, “The Godfather” premiered at ...

The Godfather, about an Italian New York crime family trying to maintain its position amid changing times and heavy competition from rival families, is a chronicle of America. It is a story about ...

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