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The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration DVD Collection, enhanced for 16:9 TVs, with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and English Mono (The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II) and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The DVD disc breakdown is as follows:
Disc 1:
- The Godfather feature film
- Commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola
Disc 2:
- The Godfather, Part II feature film
- Commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola
Disc 3:
- The Godfather, Part III feature film
- Commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola
Disc 4: (previously released special features)
- Making of The Godfather
- Additional Scenes
- Filming Locations
- The Corleone Family Tree
- The Music of The Godfather
- The Godfather Historical Timeline
- Profiles on the Filmmakers
- Photo Galleries and Storyboards
Disc 5: (new special features)
- Godfather World
- The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn’t
- …when the shooting stopped
- Emulsional Rescue: Revealing The Godfather
- The Godfather on the Red Carpet
- Four Short Films on The Godfather
— The Godfather vs. The Godfather, Part II
— Cannoli
— Riffing on the Riffing
— Clemenza
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CAST :
| Marlon Brando | Don Vito Corleone |
| Al Pacino | Michael Corleone |
| James Caan | Santino ‘Sonny’ Corleone |
| Morgana King | Carmella Corleone |
| Robert Duvall | Tom Hagen |
| Sterling Hayden | Capt. Mark McCluskey |
| Simonetta Stefanelli | Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone |
| Richard Conte | Emilio Barzini |
| Al Lettieri | Virgil ‘The Turk’ Sollozzo |
| Diane Keaton | Kay Adams |
| Abe Vigoda | Salvatore “Sally” Tessio |
| Talia Shire | Connie Corleone Rizzi |
| Gianni Russo | Carlo Rizzi |
| John Cazale | Fredo Corleone |
| Rudy Bond | Carmine Cuneo |
| Al Martino | Johnny Fontane |
| Richard S. Castellano | Luca Brasi |
| Lenny Montana | Peter Clemenza |
| John Martino | Paulie Gatto |
| Salvatore Corsitto | Amerigo Bonasera |
| Richard Bright | Al Neri |
| Alex Rocco | Moe Greene |
| Tony Giorgio | Bruno Tattaglia |
| Vito Scotti | Nazorine |
| Tere Livrano | Theresa Hagen |
| Victor Rendina | Philip Tattaglia |
| Jeannie Linero | Lucy Mancini |
| Julie Gregg | Sandra Corleone |
| Ardell Sheridan | Mrs. Clemenza |
| John Marley | Jack Woltz |
| Angelo Infanti | Fabrizio |
| Corrado Gaipa | Don Tommasino |
| Franco Citti | Calo |
| Saro Urzì | Vitelli |
| Al Pacino | Don Michael Corleone |
| Robert Duvall | Tom Hagen |
| Diane Keaton | Kay Corleone |
| Robert De Niro | Vito Corleone |
| John Cazale | Fredo Corleone |
| Talia Shire | Connie Corleone |
| Lee Strasberg | Hyman Roth |
| Michael V. Gazzo | Frankie Pentangeli |
| G.D. Spradlin | Sen. Pat Geary |
| Richard Bright | Al Neri |
| Gastone Moschin | Don Fanucci |
| Tom Rosqui | Rocco Lampone |
| Bruno Kirby | Young Clemenza (Peter) |
| Frank Sivero | Genco Abbandando |
| Francesca De Sapio | Young Mama Corleone |
| Morgana King | Carmella ‘Mama’ Corleone |
| Marianna Hill | Deanna Dunn-Corleone |
| Leopoldo Trieste | Signor Roberto, landlord |
| Dominic Chianese | Johnny Ola |
| Amerigo Tot | Busetta, Michael’s bodyguard |
| Troy Donahue | Merle Johnson |
| John Aprea | Young Sal Tessio |
| Joe Spinell | Willie Cicci |
| James Caan | Sonny Corleone |
| Abe Vigoda | Salvatore “Sally” Tessio |
| Tere Livrano | Theresa Hagen |
| Gianni Russo | Carlo Rizzi |
| Maria Carta | Signora Andolini, Vito’s mother |
| Oreste Baldini | Young Vito Andolini |
| Giuseppe Sillato | Don Francesco Ciccio |
| Mario Cotone | Don Tommasino |
| James Gounaris | Anthony Vito Corleone |
| Fay Spain | Mrs. Marcia Roth |
| David Baker | FBI man #2 |
| Carmine Caridi | Carmine Rosato |
| Danny Aiello | Tony Rosato |
| Carmine Foresta | Policeman |
| Nick Discenza | Bartender |
| Father Joseph Medeglia | Father Carmelo |
| Andrea Maugeri | Strollo |
| Peter LaCorte | Signor Abbandando |
| Vincent Coppola | Street vendor |
| Peter Donat | Questadt |
| Tom Dahlgren | Fred Corngold |
| Al Pacino | Don Michael Corleone |
| Diane Keaton | Kay Adams Michelson |
| Talia Shire | Connie Corleone-Rizzi |
| Andy Garcia | Don Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Mancini |
| Eli Wallach | Don Altobello |
| Joe Mantegna | Joey Zasa |
| George Hamilton | B.J. Harrison |
| Bridget Fonda | Grace Hamilton |
| Sofia Coppola | Mary Corleone |
| Raf Vallone | Cardinal Lamberto |
| Franc D’Ambrosio | Anthony Vito Corleone/Turiddu |
| Donal Donnelly | Archbishop Gilday |
| Richard Bright | Al Neri |
| Helmut Berger | Frederick Keinszig |
| Don Novello | Dominic Abbandando |
| John Savage | Father Andrew Hagen |
| Franco Citti | Calo |
| Mario Donatone | Mosca |
| Vittorio Duse | Don Tommasino |
| Enzo Robutti | Don Licio Lucchesi |
| Michele Russo | Spara |
| Al Martino | Johnny Fontane |
| Robert Cicchini | Lou Penning |
| Rogerio Miranda | Twin Bodyguard Armand |
| Carlos Miranda | Twin Bodyguard Francesco |
| Vito Antuofermo | Anthony ‘The Ant’ Squigliaro, |
| Robert Vento | Father John |
| Willie Brown | Party Politician |
| Jeannie Linero | Lucy Mancini |
| Remo Remotti | Camerlengo Cardinal/ |
| Jeanne Savarino Pesch | Francesca Corleone |
| Janet Savarino Smith | Kathryn Corleone |
| Tere Livrano | Teresa Hagen (as Tere L. Baker) |
| Carmine Caridi | Albert Volpe |
| Don Costello | Frank Romano |
| Al Ruscio | Leo Cuneo |
| Mickey Knox | Marty Parisi |
| Rick Aviles | Mask #1 |
| Michael Bowen | Mask #2 |
| Brett Halsey | Douglas Michelson |
| Gabriele Torrei | Enzo the Baker |
| John Abineri | Hamilton Banker |
| Brian Freilino | Stockholder |
| Gregory Corso | Unruly Stockholder |
| Marino Masé | Lupo |
| Dado Ruspoli | Vanni |
| Valeria Sabel | Sister Vincenza |
| Luigi Laezza | Keinszig Killer |
| Beppe Pianviti | Keinszig Killer |
| Santo Indelicato | Guardia del Corpo |
| Francesco Paolo Bellante | Autista di Don Tommasino |
| Paco Reconti | Gesu |
| Mimmo Cuticchio | Puppet Narrator |
| Richard Honigman | Party Reporter |
| Jessica Di Cicco | Child |
| Corinna Vozza | Lucia |
| Angelo Romero | Alfio played by |
| Paolo Gavanelli | Alfio sung by |
| Salvatore Billa | Lucchesi Bodyguard |
| Sal Borgese | Lucchesi’s Door |
| James Caan | Sonny Corleone |
| Richard S. Castellano | Peter Clemenza |
| John Cazale | Fredo Corleone |
| R. Emmett Fitzsimmons | Mob guy (uncredited) |
| Andrea Girolami | Extra |
| Simonetta Stefanelli | Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone |
| Lee Strasberg | Hyman Roth |
| F.X. Vitolo | Pasquale |
THE GODFATHER SOUNDTRACKS:
When director Francis Ford Coppola turned novelist Mario Puzo’s pulpy The Godfather into one of the greatest accomplishments of modern American cinema in 1972,
one of his shrewdest decisions was to hand the scoring assignment to the great Italian film composer Nino Rota.
Rota, who had built his reputation alongside Fellini (though he’d already scored some three dozen films in the previous 20 years), brought Neopolitan jazz stylings and
a Sicilian melodic sensibilty (characterized perfectly by the main title’s mournful solo trumpet, which has since become a cinematic icon) to a story of corruption and betrayal as American as, well, gnocchi.
Listening to this masterful score one can’t help but wonder what Rota, who died in 1979) might have accomplished had he begun working with Hollywood’s resources a decade earlier.
Love Theme (3:53)
(Nino Rota) Probably the best-known excerpt from The Godfather Trilogy. It appears in all three films and is also known as the Love Song, ‘Speak Softly Love.’
The Godfather’s Tarantella (3:10)
(Carmine Coppola) The ethnic dance written especially for the opening of The Godfather I depicting the wedding scene.
The Godfather’s Mazurka (2:50)
(Carmine Coppola) Also composed for the wedding scene.
Every Time I look in Your Eyes (3:27)
(Carmine Coppola) (Kay & Michael’s Romantic Dance) Arranged for orchestra and piano, this melody is heard several times as the romantic theme between Michael and Kay. Played when they are dancing in Lake Tahoe in the opening party scene in both The Godfather I & II.
The Godfather’s Waltz (2:30)
(Nino Rota) (Connie’s Wedding Dance) Played during the wedding scene in The Godfather. Vito dances with Connie alone on the dance floor–a tradition at all Italian family weddings.
Michael’s Theme (2:37)
(Nino Rota) Michael is associated with this theme, a kind of leit motif, which is sombre in nature and predicts his tragic life development throughout the three films.
The Godfather’s Fox Trot (2:22)
(Carmine Coppola) At Italo-American weddings, the youth want to be served by their kind of music, and in this case the charleston or an upbeat fox-trot was in vogue. Played in GF1.
Senza Mamma (Without A Mother) (3:25)
(Francesco Pennino) In New York’s ‘Little Italy’ (Mulberry Street), a theatre presenting a Neapolitan Melodrama in which the lead actor sings this song. Played in GF2.
Napule Ve Salute (Goodbye to Naples) (2:00)
(Francesco Pennino) In the same theatrical presentation, this is a typical sprightly cafe song. From GF2.
Marcia Religiosa (3:09)
(Carmine Coppola) Procession from the Feast of St. Rocca scene, heard in GF1 & GF3. Little Italy has many feasts in celebration of the honour of a saint.
Festa March (1:40)
(Carmine Coppola) Following the procession, the crowds break into dancing and song and partake in the endless stands of food being served outdoors. Featured in GF2.
Kay’s Theme (3:37)
(Nino Rota) Kay is depicted by this romantic but melancholy theme which mirrors her troubled life and existence. Heard in GF2.
A New Carpet (1:25)
(Nino Rota) This tarantella-like theme is the background music for the scene in GF2 when the young Vito and Clemenza steal a carpet for Vito’s small flat. The humour of the scene is exemplified by the music.
The Immigrant-Main Theme (4:13)
(Nino Rota) This opening dark theme for trumpet solo opens all the Godfather films, sensing the tragic coming events. The immigration scene on Ellis Island follows a musical sequence heard again in GF2, also known as the song, ‘Love Said Goodbye.’
THE GF
1. The Godfather Waltz
2. I Have But One Heart (O Marenariello) – Nino Rota, Farrow, John
3. The Pickup
4. Connie’s Wedding – Nino Rota, Coppola, Carmine
5. The Halls of Fear
6. Sicilian Pastorale
7. The Godfather (Love Theme)
8. The Godfather Waltz
9. Appollonia
10. The New Godfather
11. The Baptism
12. The Godfather (Finale)
THE GF II
1. Main Title/The Immigrant – Nino Rota, Rota, Nino
2. New Carpet – Nino Rota, Rota, Nino
3. Kay
4. Ev’ry Time I Look in Your Eyes/After the Party – Nino Rota, Coppola, Carmine
5. Vito and Abbandando – Nino Rota, Rota, Nino
6. Senza Mamma/Diuri-Ciuri/Napule Ve Salute – Nino Rota, Pennino, Francesco
7. Godfathers at Home – Nino Rota, Rota, Nino
8. Remember Vito Andolini
9. Michael Comes Home
10. Marcia Stilo Italiano
11. Ninna Nanna a Michele
12. Brothers Mourn
13. Murder of Dom Fanucci
14. End Title
THE GF III
1. Main Title
2. The Godfather Waltz – Carmine Coppola, Rota, Nino
3. Marcia Religioso
4. Michael’s Letter
5. The Immigrant/Love Theme from the Godfather Partiii
6. The Godfather Waltz – Carmine Coppola, Rota, Nino
7. To Each His Own
8. Vincent’s Theme
9. Altobello
10. The Godfather Intermezzo – Carmine Coppola, Rota, Nino
11. Sicilian Medley: Va Pensiero/Danza Tarantella/Mazurka (Alla Siciliana)
12. Promise Me You’ll Remember – Carmine Coppola, Bettis, John
13. Preludio and Siciliana
14. A Casa Amiche
15. Preghiera
16. Finale
17. Coda: The Godfather Finale
