Pull My Hair Again and This Is Gonna Get Real Awkward

I'm gonna make him an offer he tin can't decline. Now, you but go exterior and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I desire you, I want you to leave it all to me.

Where does information technology say that you lot tin't kill a cop? I'm talking most a cop that'due south mixed up in drugs. I'grand talking about a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. Information technology's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business organization.

Get out the gun. Have the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 pic most a Mafia criminal offense family unit and the outbreak of a New York City gang war in the late 1940s.

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

An offer you can't refuse.

Vito Corleone [edit]

• [to Bonasera] I desire you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to meet him this mode. [pulls canvas to reveal Sonny'southward bullet-ridden body] Await how they massacred my boy.

• I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can beget to be devil-may-care, just not men.

• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than than talent. It is more than the regime. It is nearly the equal of family unit.

• Yous cannot say "no" to the people yous dearest, not frequently. That's the secret. And then when you lot practise, it has to audio similar a "yes" or you have to brand them say "no." Y'all take to take time and trouble.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

• [to Rocco Lampone, after Rocco has killed Paulie Gatto] Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bitch! Do you lot know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I fabricated my basic when you were going out with cheerleaders!

Dialogue [edit]

Amerigo Bonasera: I believe in America. America has fabricated my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, simply I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a boyfriend, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest. Two months agone he took her for a bulldoze, with another male child friend. They made her drink whiskey and and so they tried to have advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her laurels, then they crush her similar an animate being. When I went to the hospital her olfactory organ was broken. Her jaw was shattered, held together past wire. She couldn't even cry because of the pain, merely I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. A beautiful daughter. Now she will never be beautiful again. [sobs] Distressing. I went to the police, like a good American. These two boys were brought to trial. The guess sentenced them to three years in prison house, and suspended the sentence. Suspended judgement! They went free that very 24-hour interval! I stood in the courtroom similar a fool, and those ii bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my wife, "For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."

Don Vito Corleone: Why did yous go to the law? Why didn't you come up to me first?

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

Vito: What is that?

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

Vito: That I cannot exercise.

Bonasera: I will give you lot anything you enquire.

Vito: We've known each other many years, but this is the start time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. I can't recollect the final time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let's exist frank here. Yous never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were agape to exist in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't desire to go into trouble.

Vito: I understand. You lot plant paradise in America, yous had a expert trade, you made a good living, the police protected you lot, and at that place were courts of police force. Y'all didn't need a friend like me. But, now y'all come up to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, requite me justice." Just you lot don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to telephone call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder for money.

Bonasera: I ask for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your girl is still alive.

Bonasera: Allow them suffer then, as she suffers. How much shall I pay you?

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What accept I e'er done to brand y'all treat me and then disrespectfully? If y'all'd come to me in friendship, and so that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very solar day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, and so they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you lot.

Bonasera: Exist my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito's hand]

Vito: Expert. Someday—and that day may never come—I'll call upon y'all to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my girl'due south wedding ceremony day.

Bonasera: Grazie, Godfather.

Vito: Prego. [Bonasera leaves, and Don Corleone turns to Tom] Give this to, uh, Clemenza. I desire reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. Afterwards all, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks.

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Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was get-go starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a big ring leader. And as his career got better and ameliorate, he wanted to get out of it. At present, Johnny is my father's godson. And my begetter went to see this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to permit Johnny go. But the band leader said no. So the adjacent solar day, my father went to meet him, only this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $i,000.

Kay: How'd he do that?

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

Kay: What was that?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father bodacious him that either his brains - or his signature - would be on the contract. That's a truthful story. That'due south my family, Kay. Information technology'southward not me.

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Johnny Fontane: A calendar month ago, he [Woltz] bought the flick rights to this book, a all-time-seller, and the main character, it'south a guy just similar me. I, uh, I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. [choking upward] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to exercise. I don't know what to exercise.

Don Vito Corleone: [shaking Johnny] You can act like a man! [He slaps Johnny.] What'south the affair with y'all? Is this how you turned out, a Hollywood finocchio that cries like a adult female? "Eheheh! What can I practise? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You lot spend time with your family?

Johnny: Sure I practise.

Vito: Good, because a homo who doesn't spend time with his family unit can never be a existent man. Come here. You look terrible. I want y'all to eat. I want you to remainder a while, and in a calendar month from now, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna give you what you lot want.

Johnny: It'due south too late, they start shooting in a calendar week.

Vito: I'grand gonna make him an offering he can't refuse. Now, you just go outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget well-nigh all this nonsense. I want you, I want you lot to get out it all to me.

• The line in bold is ranked #2 in American Moving-picture show Institute's list of the top 100 picture quotations.

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Vito Corleone: [to Sollozzo] I must say no to you, and I'll give you my reasons. It's truthful, 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. Only drugs is a dirty business. It makes, it doesn't brand any difference to me what a man does for a living, sympathise. But your business is, uh, a little dangerous.

Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo: If you're worried near security for your million, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.

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

Vito: Wait a minute. I take a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as y'all can see. They talk when they should listen. Just anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate yous on your new business organization. I know you lot'll practice very well, and good luck to you, peculiarly since your interests don't conflict with mine. Cheers. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come here. What'southward the matter with y'all? I think your brain's going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that young girl. Never tell everyone exterior the family what you lot're thinking again.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your boss is dead. I know y'all're not in the muscle-cease of the family, Tom, so I don't want you to exist scared. I want you to assist the Corleones, and I desire you to help me. [hands Tom a potable.] Yeah, nosotros got him exterior his function just about an hour after we picked you up. Drink information technology. And so now information technology's up to you to brand the peace between me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my idea, wasn't he? And you knew information technology was the correct affair to exercise.

Tom Hagen: Sonny'll come after you with everything he's got.

Sollozzo: That'll exist his showtime reaction, sure. That'south why you gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family is behind me with all their people. The other New York families will keep with annihilation that will prevent a full-calibration war. Let'south confront it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, residuum in peace, was slipping. Ten years ago, could I take gotten to him? Well, at present, he's dead. He's dead, Tom, and aught tin can bring him back, and so y'all gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fatty Clemenza. It's good business, Tom.

Tom: I'll try, but even Sonny won't be able to call off Luca Brasi.

Sollozzo: Yes, well, allow me worry almost Luca. Y'all just talk to Sonny and the other two kids.

Tom: I'll do my best.

Sollozzo: Practiced. Now, you can become. I don't like violence, Tom. I'yard a business man. Blood is a big expense. [receives news from an arriving automobile] He's still alive. They hit him with v shots, and he's still live! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for you lot if y'all don't brand that bargain!

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[Sonny opens a bundle to find two fish wrapped in Luca'due south bulletproof belong.]

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

Salvatore Tessio: It's a Sicilian bulletin. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

• Note: The line in assuming was nominated for the American Film Institute'southward list of the pinnacle 100 movie quotations.

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Tom Hagen: This is concern, non personal!

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

Tom: Fifty-fifty shooting your father was business, not personal, Sonny!

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Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, right? It will be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Let's prepare the meeting. Go our informers to find out where it's gonna be held. Now, we insist it's a public place, a bar, a eatery, some place where there'southward people then I feel prophylactic. They're gonna search me when I start meet them, correct? So I can't have a weapon on me and so. Only if Clemenza tin figure a way, to have a weapon planted there for me, so I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna do, dainty college boy, eh? Didn't want to get mixed upward in the family unit concern huh? Now you wanna gun downwardly a police captain. Why? Considering he slapped you in the face a piffling scrap? Hah? What practise y'all recollect this is, the Army? Where you lot shoot 'em a mile abroad? You've gotta become up shut like this and bada-bing! You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League adapt. [He kisses Michael'southward head.] Y'all're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that you can't kill a cop? I'm talking about a cop that'southward mixed up in drugs. I'thousand talking most a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It'south not personal, Sonny. It'southward strictly concern.

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Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as cold as they come up, impossible to trace, so yous don't worry about prints, Mike. I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt. Here, try it. [Michael takes the revolver] What'sa affair? The trigger too tight?

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

Clemenza: Yep, I left it noisy. That way, it scares any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away. All correct, you shot 'em both. Now what practice you lot practise?

Michael: Sit, finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come on, kid. Don't fool around. Just let your hand drop to your side, and allow the gun skid out. Everybody'll still remember you got it. They're gonna be staring at your face up, Mike, so walk out of the place real fast, but don't run. Don't await nobody directly in the heart, but y'all don't look abroad either. Eh, they're gonna be scared potent of you, believe me, so don't worry about zippo. You know, you gonna turn out all correct. You have a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna catch the hell.

Michael: How bad do you lot think it's gonna exist?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families will line up against usa. That's all correct. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to become rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the final ane. Y'all know, you gotta stop 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have let him get away with that. They was but asking for big trouble. Yous know, Mike, we was all proud of you, being a hero and all. Your father, likewise.

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

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

Fabrizio: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I call up you got hitting past the thunderbolt.

Calo: [in Sicilian] In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Did yous have a proficient hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Yous know all the girls around here? Nosotros saw some real beauties. Ane of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt. She would tempt the devil himself. Really put together. Such hair, such mouth!

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] The girls around hither are cute but virtuous.

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

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] No! There's no girl similar 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] Let's go. Information technology's his girl.

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

Fabrizio: Si, signor.

Michael: [with Fabrizio translating] I apologize if I offended you. I'thou a stranger in this state and I meant no disrespect, to yous or your daughter. 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 then your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a husband. I want to meet your daughter with your permission and under the supervision of your family with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come to my house Sunday morn. My name is Vitelli.

Michael Grazie. [in Sicilian] What's her name?

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

---

Don Vito Corleone: [sees Tom Hagen with a drinkable] Requite me a drib. My married woman is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consigliere of mine, I recall yous should tell your Don what everyone seems to know.

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

Vito: Simply you lot needed a potable first.

Tom: Yeah.

Vito: Well, now y'all've had your drink.

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

Vito: I want no inquiries fabricated. I desire no acts of vengeance. I desire you to adjust a meeting with the heads of the Five Families. This state of war stops now.

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Don Vito Corleone: [to the heads of the Five Families] How did things ever become so far? I don't know. It was and then unfortunate, and then unnecessary. Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son. Nosotros're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees, and then I'grand 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. Nosotros all know him as a homo of his word. A small man who will always listen to reason.

Don Phillip Tattaglia: Yep, Barzini, he is likewise modest. He had all the judges and politicians in his pocket, and refused to share them.

Vito: When? When did I e'er refuse an adaptation? All of yous know me here. When did I always refuse, except one time? And why? Considering I believe this drug business is gonna destroy us in the years to come. I hateful, it's not like gambling or liquor, even women, which is something that virtually people want nowadays and it'due south forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church. Even the police force departments have helped us in the by with gambling and other things. They're gonna reject to assist united states when information technology comes to narcotics. And I believed that and so, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times have inverse. It'south not like the quondam days when nosotros could practice anything we desire. A refusal is not the act of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must let us describe the water from the well. Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, nosotros are not Communists!

Zaluchi: I besides don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people actress so they wouldn't do that kind of concern. Somebody comes to them and says, "I take powders. If you put up three, 4 m dollar investment, nosotros can make l thousand distributing." And then they tin can't resist. I desire to control it as a business concern, to keep it respectable. I don't want information technology almost schools! I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the night people, the coloreds. They're animals anyhow, so allow them lose their souls.

Vito: I hoped that we would come here and reason together. And every bit a reasonable man, I'yard willing to do whatever is necessary to find a peaceful solution to these problems.

Barzini: Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs will be permitted, but controlled, and Don Corleone will requite usa protection in the e, and there will exist the peace.

Tattaglia: But I must have strict assurance from Corleone. As time goes by and his position becomes stronger, will he attempt whatever individual vendetta?

Barzini: Look, nosotros are all reasonable men here. We don't accept to requite assurances every bit if we were lawyers.

Vito: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to y'all or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. Merely I take selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to exit this country because of all this Solozzo business. All correct. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back here safely, but I'm a superstitious homo, and if some unlucky accident should befall him—if he should become shot in the head past a police officeholder, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning—and so I'grand going to blame some of the people in this room. And that, I practise not forgive. Merely that aside, allow me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will not be the ane to break the peace that we have fabricated here today.

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Tom Hagen: When I run across with the Tattaglia people, should I insist that all his drug middlemen have clean records?

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

Tom: Y'all mean Tattaglia?

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

---

Michael Corleone: I'g working for my male parent now. He's been sick, very ill.

Kay Adams: Just y'all're non similar him, Michael. I thought yous weren't going to go a man like your father. That'south what you told me.

Michael: My father's no dissimilar than whatsoever other powerful man – any man who's responsible for other people, like 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'due south existence naïve, Kay? Kay, my father'due south way of doing things is over, information technology'due south finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in five years, the Corleone family is going to be completely legitimate. Trust me. That'south all I can tell y'all about my business concern.

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

Michael Corleone: Y'all straightened my brother out?

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

Michael Corleone: Fredo, yous're my older brother, and I dear you, but don't ever take sides with anyone against the family unit over again, ever.

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Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna have to become through all this, and Fredo, well, Fredo was... simply I never—I never wanted this for yous. I worked my whole life—I don't apologize—to accept care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologize. That's my life, but I thought that when it was your time, that yous would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

Vito: Well, in that location wasn't enough fourth dimension, Michael. Wasn't plenty time.

Michael: We'll get at that place, Pop. We'll get there.

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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I promise Mike tin can get us a practiced deal.

Tom Hagen: I'm sure he will.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Boss says he'll come in a separate car. He says for you 2 to go along ahead.

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

Cicci: Well, that'south what he said.

Tom: I can't get either, Sal.

[Several button men close in around Tessio]

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

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

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

Tom: Tin can't do it, Sally.

---

[While Carlo dials the telephone, Michael Corleone enters the room with Tom Hagen, Al Neri and Rocco Lampone. Carlo turns and looks at Michael'southward new inner circle]

Michael Corleone: Yous have to answer for Santino, Carlo.

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

Michael: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ah, that little farce y'all played with my sister. Did you think that would fool a Corleone?

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

Michael: Sit down down.

Carlo: Please don't exercise this. Please.

Michael: Barzini's dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family business, so don't tell me yous're innocent, Carlo. Admit what you did. [Carlo breaks down] Get him a drink. Come up on. Don't be agape, Carlo. Come on. Yous retrieve I'd brand my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a drink] Go ahead, drinkable. Beverage. No, Carlo, y'all're out of the family business organization, that's your punishment. We're finished. I'1000 putting you on a plane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a plane ticket] I want y'all to stay there, understand? Only, don't tell me you're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. It makes me very aroused. Now who approached you: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: It was Barzini.

Michael: Skilful. In that location'southward a car waiting for you outside, it'll accept you to the airport. I'll phone call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, it was—

Michael: Go on. Get out of my sight.

[Carlo gets in the automobile and notices Clemenza sitting behind him]

Peter Clemenza: Hey, Carlo. [strangles Carlo]

---

[Connie has just accused Michael of having Carlo killed]

Michael Corleone: She'due south hysterical. Hysterical.

Kay Corleone: Michael, is it true?

Michael: Don't inquire me almost my business organisation, Kay.

Kay: Is it true?

Michael: Don't ask me about my business.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk] Enough! All right, this one fourth dimension. This 1 fourth dimension, I'll let you inquire me about my affairs.

Kay: Is information technology true? Is it?

Michael: No.

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

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael'due south 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 – Helm 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

Encounter as well [edit]

• The Godfather: Part Two
• The Godfather: Part III

External links [edit]

lambawly1978.blogspot.com

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

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