The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II[1]
Original film poster
Directed by Produced by Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola Gray Frederickson [2] Fred Roos Francis Ford Coppola Mario Puzo The Godfather by Mario Puzo Al Pacino Robert Duvall Diane Keaton Robert De Niro Talia Shire Morgana King John Cazale Marianna Hill Lee Strasberg Michael V. Gazzo Nino Rota Carmine Coppola

Screenplay by Based on Starring

Music by

Cinematography Gordon Willis Editing by Barry Malkin Richard Marks Peter Zinner Paramount Pictures

Distributed by Release date(s)

December 20, 1974

(US)

Running time Country Language Budget Box office

200 min United States English Sicilian $13 million $193,000,000

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and partially based on Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather. The screenplay was once again written by Coppola and Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, Morgana King, John Cazale, Marianna Hill, Michael V. Gazzo and Lee Strasberg. The film is in part, both a sequel and a prequel to 1972 The Godfather film, presenting two parallel dramas. The main storyline, following the events of the first film, centers on Michael Corleone (Pacino), the new Don of the Corleone crime family, trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959; the other is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone (De Niro), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to his founding of the Corleone family in New York City.

The Godfather Part II The Godfather Part II was released in 1974, and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with some even deeming it superior to its predecessor.[3] The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture. This made Part II the first film sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and it remained the only sequel to do so until The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won the award in 2003. The film also received Academy Awards for Best Director for Coppola, Best Supporting Actor for De Niro and Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola and Puzo. Pacino won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The Godfather Part II, like its predecessor, is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made[4] and it remains a highly influential film in the gangster genre. The film was ranked as the thirty-second greatest film in American cinematic history by the American Film Institute in 1997 and it kept its rank 10 years later.[5] It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 for being "culturally significant".[6] A sequel, The Godfather Part III, was released 16 years later in 1990.

Plot
In the town of Corleone, Sicily, in 1901, Vito's father Antonio Andolini and his brother Paolo are killed on the orders of the local Mafia chieftain, Don Ciccio. Vito's mother goes to Ciccio to beg him to let young Vito live. He refuses, saying that Vito will someday come back for revenge. Vito's mother then holds a knife to his throat, sacrificing herself to allow Vito to escape, as Ciccio's gunmen shoot her dead. With the aid of some townspeople, Vito takes a ship to New York City. Arriving at Ellis Island, an official registers him as "Vito Corleone" and he is quarantined for smallpox. In 1958, Michael Corleone deals with various business and family problems at his Lake Tahoe, Nevada, compound during an elaborate party celebrating his son Anthony's First Communion. Michael meets with Nevada Senator Pat Geary, who despises the Corleones. Geary, aware that Michael plans to gain control of another Las Vegas casino, demands a high price and kickbacks for a new gaming license, while insulting the Corleones and Italians in general. Michael offers Geary nothing. Michael meets Johnny Ola, the right-hand man of Jewish gangster, Hyman Roth, who tells him that Roth would not object to Michael's attempting to gain control of the extra casino. His sister, Connie, recently divorced, is planning to marry a man of whom Michael disapproves. His brother and underboss, Fredo, is having trouble keeping his drunken wife, Deanna Dunn, under control; Michael's men have to haul her away. Michael meets with a drunken Frank Pentangeli, who took over the old Corleone New York territory after caporegime Peter Clemenza's death. To maintain a smooth business relationship with Roth, Michael refuses to allow Pentangeli to kill the Rosato brothers, who, backed by Roth, are attempting to intrude on Pentangeli's territory. Pentangeli leaves after arguing with Michael. Later that night, an assassination attempt is made on Michael. He tells family consigliere Tom Hagen that the hit was made with the help of someone close. Michael then insists that he must leave and entrusts Hagen Michael had excluded him from the Roth and Pentangeli negotiations to protect his family. As Michael suspected, the assassins are found dead. In 1917, Vito Corleone, now married and living in a tenement with his wife Carmela and son (Santino), works in a New York grocery store owned by the father of his close friend Genco Abbandando, who looked after him after he came to New York. The neighborhood is controlled by a member of the Black Hand, Don Fanucci, who extorts protection payments from local businesses. Abbandando Senior is forced to fire Vito and give his job to Fanucci's nephew. One night, Vito's neighbor Peter Clemenza asks him to hide a stash of guns for him, and later, to repay the favor, takes him to a fancy apartment where they commit their first crime together, stealing an expensive rug.

The Godfather Part II Michael drives to Hyman Roth's home near Miami, and tells Roth that he believes Pentangeli was responsible for the assassination attempt. Traveling to Pentangeli's home, Michael lets Pentangeli know that Roth was actually behind it and that Michael has a plan to deal with him, but needs Pentangeli to cooperate with the Rosato brothers in order to keep Roth off guard. When Pentangeli goes to meet with the Rosatos, their men garrote him, claiming to have been sent by Michael. However, the attempted murder is interrupted by a policeman. Elsewhere, Tom visits one of the brothels owned by the Corleone family, where Geary has been found in a room with a dead prostitute. Geary says he cannot remember what happened, and Hagen says he will cover up the death as a token of the Corleones' "friendship" with the senator. Meanwhile, Michael meets Roth in Havana, Cuba, at the time when dictator Fulgencio Batista is soliciting American investment, and guerrillas are trying to bring down the government. Roth is celebrating his birthday with business partners, splitting up territory in Havana and telling them that Michael and the Corleone Family will be taking over the operation when he dies, when Michael reveals to Roth and others that he is hesitant to invest after having seen a rebel kill several of Batista's policemen in a suicide bombing, convincing him that Fidel Castro is capable of taking over. Roth privately requests Michael's investment once again. Fredo arrives in Havana, carrying the money promised to Roth; Michael confides in him that it was Roth who tried to kill him and that he plans to try again. Michael assures Fredo that he has already made his move and that " Hyman Roth will never see the New Year". Instead of turning over the money, Michael asks Roth who gave the order to have Pentangeli killed. Roth avoids the question, instead alluding to the murder of his old friend and ally Moe Greene who Michael ordered to be killed years previously saying, "This is the business we've chosen. I didn't ask who gave the order because it had nothing to do with business!" Michael asks Fredo to show Geary and other important American officials and businessmen a good time, during which Fredo pretends not to know Johnny Ola, Roth's right-hand man. Later in the evening, however, Fredo drunkenly comments that he learned about the place they're in from Johnny Ola, contradicting what he told Michael twice earlier. Michael realizes that his own brother is the family traitor and dispatches his bodyguard to kill Roth. Johnny Ola is strangled with a wooden coathanger, but Roth, whose health is failing, is taken to a hospital before he can be assassinated. Michael's bodyguard follows but is shot and killed by police while trying to smother Roth with a pillow. At Batista's New Year's Eve party, at the stroke of midnight, Michael grasps Fredo tightly by the head and kisses him harshly on the lips, telling him "I know it was you, Fredoyou broke my heart. " Batista announces he is stepping down due to unexpected gains by the rebels, and the guests flee as Castro's guerrillas pour into the city and the people begin celebrating. Michael appeals to his brother to join him in leaving the country, but Fredo runs away frightened. Michael returns to Las Vegas, where Hagen tells him that Roth escaped from Cuba after suffering a stroke and is recovering in Miami. Hagen also informs Michael that Kay had a miscarriage while he was away. Michael angrily asks if it was a boy which Hagen replies that he doesn't know. In New York, in 1920, Don Fanucci has become aware of the partnership between Vito, Clemenza and Sal Tessio. He collars Vito in his delivery truck and tells him that he knows the trio has recently committed a robbery. He demands that they "wet his beak" or the police (on Fanucci's payroll) will arrest Vito, and his family will be ruined. Clemenza and Tessio agree to pay, but Vito - guessing that Fanucci's grip on his ghetto was only one man deep - asks his friends to allow him to convince Fanucci to accept less money, telling them, "I make him an offer he don't refuse. " Vito manages to get Fanucci to take one hundred dollars instead of the original six hundred he had demanded ($50 from each of his friends, but holding his own back - money he took back after killing Fanucci anyway). Immediately afterward despite having earned Fanucci's respect and an offer of employment Vito shoots him dead in a darkened stairway outside Fanucci's apartment during a neighborhood festa, and escapes across the rooftops. Later, on the steps of his tenement building, he sits with his family, cradling the newborn Michael in his arms. The screen fades to black as this hinge point was the

The Godfather Part II intermission in some cinema performances. Michael returns to his compound in Lake Tahoe, declining to go into the same room as his wife and instead asking advice from his mother. In Washington, D.C., a Senate committee, of which Geary is a member, is conducting an investigation into the Corleone family. They question disaffected "soldier" Willi Cicci, but he cannot implicate Michael because he never received any direct orders from him. In New York, in the early 1920s, Vito has become a respected figure in his community. He intercedes with a slum landlord who is evicting a widow. Vito offers the landlord extra money to let her stay, but the man becomes angry when Vito demands that she also be allowed to keep her dog. A few days later the landlord, terrified after finding out who Vito is, calls on him and announces that the widow can stay, along with her dog, at a reduced rent. When Michael appears before the Senate committee, Geary makes an announcement generally supportive of Italian-Americans and then excuses himself from the proceedings. Michael makes a statement challenging the committee to produce a witness to corroborate the charges against him. The hearing ends with the Chairman promising a witness who will do exactly that, who turns out to be Pentangeli. Michael and Hagen observe that Roth's strategy to destroy Michael is well planned. Fredo has been found and persuaded to return to Nevada, and in a private meeting he explains his betrayal to Michael; he was upset about being passed over to head the family, and helped Roth, thinking there would be something in it for him. He swears he didn't know they wanted to kill Michael. He also tells Michael that the Senate Committee's chief counsel is on Roth's payroll. Michael then disowns Fredo and privately instructs bodyguard Al Neri that " nothing is to happen to him while my mother's alive. " Pentangeli has made a deal with the FBI to testify against Michael, believing Michael was the one who organized the attempt on his life. He is considered very credible, since as a caporegime there is no insulation between Michael and himself. At the hearing in which Pentangeli is to testify, Michael arrives accompanied by Pentangeli's brother, brought in from Sicily. Upon seeing his brother, Pentangeli recants his earlier written statements, saying that he runs his own family, thereby derailing the government's case. The hearing ends in an uproar with Hagen, acting as Michael's lawyer, irately demanding an apology. In a hotel room afterwards, Kay tells Michael she is leaving him, taking their children with her. Michael at first tries to mollify her, but when she reveals to him that her "miscarriage" was actually an abortion to avoid bringing another son into Michael's criminal family, Michael explodes in anger and slaps her in the face. In 1925, Vito visits Sicily for the first time since leaving for America, now accompanied by all four of his children. He is introduced to the elderly Don Ciccio by Don Tommasino who initially helped Vito escape to America as the man who imports their olive oil to America, and who wants his blessing. When Ciccio asks Vito who his father was, Vito says, "My father's name was Antonio Andolini, and this is for you!" He then stabs the old man to death. In the resulting gun battle, Tommasino is shot, confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Mama Corleone dies and the whole Corleone family reunites at her funeral. Michael is still shunning Fredo, but relents when Connie implores him to forgive their brother. Michael and Fredo embrace, but as they do so, Michael exchanges glances with Al Neri. Michael Corleone, Tom Hagen, Al Neri and Rocco Lampone discuss their final dealings with Roth, who has been unsuccessfully seeking asylum from various countries, and was even refused entry to Israel as a returning Jew. Michael rejects Hagen's advice that the Corleone family's position is secure and that killing Roth and the Rosato brothers is an unnecessary risk. Later, Hagen visits Pentangeli at the military base. He leads Pentangeli, a student of history, into a discussion on how families were organized like Roman legions, which ends with Hagen's veiled assurance that if Pentangeli were to commit suicide then, just as the Romans did after a failed plot against the Emperor, his family would be spared and taken care of. With Connie's help, Kay visits her children but cannot bear to leave them and stays too long. When Michael arrives, he closes the door in her face.

The Godfather Part II In 1925, Vito and his young family board the train to leave Corleone, as family and friends wave. The film then reaches its climax in a montage of assassinations and death: As he arrives in Miami to be taken into custody, Hyman Roth is shot in the stomach and killed by Lampone, who is immediately shot dead by FBI agents. Frank Pentangeli is found dead in his bathtub, having slit his wrists. Finally, Neri shoots Fredo in the head while they are fishing on Lake Tahoe, as Fredo is saying a Hail Mary to help catch a fish. Michael watches from his den. The final scene takes place as a flashback to December 1941 as the Corleone family is preparing a surprise birthday party for Vito. Sonny introduces Carlo Rizzi (who would later be complicit in Sonny's death) to Connie. Tessio comes in with the cake, and they all discuss the recent attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Michael shocks everybody by announcing that he has dropped out of college and enlisted in the Marines. Sonny is furious with Michael's decision, Tom incredulous, and Fredo supportive. Vito arrives (offscreen) and all but Michael leave the room to greet him. As the film ends, an older Michael sits outside in the Corleones' Lake Tahoe compound, alone in silence.

Cast
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen Diane Keaton as Kay Adams-Corleone John Cazale as Fredo Corleone Talia Shire as Connie Corleone Lee Strasberg as Hyman Roth Michael V. Gazzo as Frank Pentangeli Morgana King as Carmela Corleone G. D. Spradlin as Senator Pat Geary Richard Bright as Al Neri Marianna Hill as Deanna Corleone Gastone Moschin as Don Fanucci Troy Donahue as Merle Johnson Dominic Chianese as Johnny Ola Amerigo Tot as Michael's bodyguard Joe Spinell as Willi Cicci Bruno Kirby as Young Peter Clemenza Frank Sivero as Young Genco Abbandando Maria Carta as the mother of Vito Corleone Giuseppe Sillato as Don Francesco Ciccio Roman Coppola as Young Santino Corleone John Megna as Young Hyman Roth Julian Voloshin as Sam Roth Larry Guardino as Vito's uncle Danny Aiello as Tony Rosato John Aprea as Young Salvatore Tessio Leopoldo Trieste as Signor Roberto Salvatore Poe as Vincenzo Pentangeli Harry Dean Stanton as FBI agent James Caan as Sonny Corleone (cameo) Abe Vigoda as Salvatore Tessio (cameo) Gianni Russo as Carlo Rizzi (cameo)

Robert De Niro as Young Vito Corleone

James Caan agreed to reprise the role of Sonny in the birthday flashback sequence demanding he be paid the same amount he received for the entire previous film for the single scene in Part II, which he received. Marlon Brando initially agreed to return for the birthday flashback sequence, but the actor, feeling mistreated by the board at Paramount, failed to show up for the single day's shooting; Coppola rewrote the scene that same day. Richard Castellano, who portrayed Peter Clemenza in the first film, also declined to return, as he and the producers could not reach an agreement on his demands that he be allowed to write the character's dialogue in the film. Clemenza's role was subsequently filled by Frank Pentangeli. Troy Donahue, in a small role as Connie's boyfriend, plays a character named Merle Johnson, which was his birth name. Two actors who appear in the film played different character roles in other Godfather films; Carmine Caridi, who plays Carmine Rosato, also went on to play crime boss Albert Volpe in The Godfather Part III, and Frank Sivero, who plays a young Genco Abbandando, appears as a bystander in The Godfather scene in which Sonny beats up Carlo for abusing Connie.

The Godfather Part II Among the Senators in the hearing committee are film producer/director Roger Corman, writer/producer William Bowers, producer Phil Feldman, and science-fiction writer Richard Matheson.

Production
The Godfather Part II was shot between October 1, 1973 and June 19, 1974, and was the last major American motion picture to be printed with Technicolor's dye imbibition process until the late 1990s. The scenes that took place in Cuba were shot in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[7] Charles Bluhdorn, whose Gulf+Western conglomerate owned Paramount, felt strongly about developing the Dominican Republic as a movie-making site. The Lake Tahoe house and grounds portrayed in the film are Fleur du Lac, the summer estate of Henry J. Kaiser on the Original screenplay in the National Museum of the Cinema in Turin California side of the lake. The only structures used in the movie that still remain are the complex of old native stone boathouses with their wrought iron gates. Although Fleur du Lac is private property and no one is allowed ashore there, the boathouses and multi-million dollar condominiums may be viewed from the lake. Unlike with the first film, Coppola was given near-complete control over production. In his commentary, he said this resulted in a film that ran very smoothly, considering that it was shot in multiple locations and told two parallel stories within one film.[8] It was the last major American motion picture to be filmed in Technicolor. In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film released in 2002, Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" in its title. Paramount was initially opposed to his decision to name the movie The Godfather Part II. According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story. The success of The Godfather Part II began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels. Production nearly ended before it began when Pacino's lawyers told Coppola that he had grave misgivings with the script and wasn't coming. Coppola spent an entire night rewriting it before giving it to Pacino for his review. Pacino approved, allowing shooting to go forward.[8] In the documentary The Godfather Family: A look Inside, Coppola stated that three weeks prior to Part II being released, film critics and journalists pronounced the film a disaster, claiming the parallel stories between Vito and Michael were uncomfortably fast, not allowing enough time for the stories to leave a lasting impression on the audience. Coppola stated that he and the editors returned to the cutting room to change the film's narrative structure, but could not complete the full re-arrangement in time, leaving the final scenes of the film poorly timed. Coppola shot The Godfather Part II shortly after The Conversation, which was released eight months earlier. Both films earned Coppola nominations for Best Picture of 1974, with Part II winning.

The Godfather Part II

Additional/deleted scenes
For both The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, many scenes that were shot were not shown in the original theatrical runs but were included in the television adaptation The Godfather Saga (1977) and the home video releases The Godfather 1901-1959: The Complete Epic (1981) and The Godfather Trilogy: 19011980 (1992). To date, there has not been a single release that contains all of this footage together in one collection. A limited time-reduced version with roughly thirty minutes of the film removed was later released.

Box office
While not to the extent of the original, The Godfather Part II was very successful commercially, grossing $193 million on a $13 million budget. It was Paramount's highest grossing film of 1974 (ahead of The Longest Yard, Murder on the Orient Express and Chinatown) and was the fifth highest grossing picture in the US that year.

Reception
Film Rotten Tomatoes All critics Top critics Metacritic

The Godfather Part II 98% (58 reviews)[9] 80% (5 reviews)[9] 71/100 (7 reviews)[10]

The Godfather Part II ranks among the most critically and artistically successful film sequels in movie history, and is the most honored. It, like its predecessor, is widely considered as one of the greatest films of all time. Many critics praise it as equal, or even superior, to the original film (although it is almost always placed below the original on lists of "greatest" movies). The Godfather Part II: Is featured on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list, even though Ebert's original review of the film granted it only three out of four stars. Is ranked the #7 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "100 Greatest Movies of All Time. " Is featured on movie critic Leonard Maltin's list of the "100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century. " Received only one negative review on Rotten Tomatoes and a "98%" approval rating, 2 percentage-points less than The Godfather (although it does hold a higher rating average of 9.2/10 compared to the predecessor's 9.1/10) but 32 percentage-points more than The Godfather Part III.[11] Was featured on Sight and Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1992 and 2002. Is ranked #1 onTV Guide's 1998 list of the "50 Greatest Movies of All Time on TV and Video. "[12] Is ranked #3 on IMDB's Top 100 Movies of all time, with its predecessor The Godfather ranked second. Pacino's performance in The Godfather Part II has been praised as perhaps his best, and the Academy has been criticized for not awarding him the Academy Award for Best Actor, which went that year to Art Carney for his role in Harry and Tonto. Over time, it has come to be recognized by some as one of the greatest performances in cinema history. In 2006, Premiere magazine issued its list of "The 100 Greatest Performances of all Time", ranking Pacino's performance at #20.[13] Later in 2009, Total Film issued "The 150 Greatest Performances Of All Time", ranking Pacino's performance at #4.[14]

Awards and honors

Between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Coppola directed The Conversation, which was released in 1974 and was also nominated for Best Picture. This resulted in Coppola becoming the third director in Hollywood history to have two films released in the same year, both nominated for Best Picture. The first was Victor Fleming for his 1939 films Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. This achievement was matched by Alfred Hitchcock with his 1940 films Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca. Since Coppola, two other directors have achieved the same result:

The Godfather Part II Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point, and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic. Coppola, however, is the only one to have done this with films he produced as well as directed. The film was the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and was the only sequel to win until The Return of the King won the award in 2003.

Honors
Award Academy Award Category Academy Award for Best Picture Nominee Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos Francis Ford Coppola Al Pacino Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo Robert De Niro Michael V. Gazzo Lee Strasberg Talia Shire Theadora Van Runkle Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham and George R. Nelson Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola Result Won Won Nominated Won Won Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated Won Won

Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Academy Award for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score Golden Globe Award Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Nominated Roos Francis Ford Coppola Al Pacino Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated Won Nominated Nominated Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo

Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Male Lee Strasberg Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score BAFTA Award BAFTA Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles BAFTA Award for Best Film Editing Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music Nino Rota Al Pacino (also for Dog Day Afternoon) Robert De Niro

Peter Zinner, Barry Malkin and Richard Marks Nino Rota

The Godfather Part II American Film Institute 1998 AFI's 100 Years100 Movies #32 2003 AFI's 100 Years100 Heroes and Villains: Michael Corleone #11 Villain 2005 AFI's 100 Years100 Movie Quotes: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. " #58 "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart. " Nominated "Michael, we're bigger than U. S. Steel. " Nominated 2007 AFI's 100 Years100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) #32 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 #3 Gangster film Epic film Nominated

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External links
The Godfather Official site from Paramount Pictures (http://www.thegodfather.com/) The Godfather Part II (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/) at the Internet Movie Database The Godfather Part II (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godfather_part_ii/) at Rotten Tomatoes The Godfather: Part II (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather-part-ii) at Metacritic The Godfather Part II (http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=76548) at the TCM Movie Database The Godfather Part II (http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/v20078) at AllRovi

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