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I'yard gonna make him an offering he tin can't decline. Now, you simply become outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I desire y'all, I want y'all to get out information technology all to me.

Where does information technology say that you tin't impale a cop? I'm talking most a cop that'due south mixed upwardly in drugs. I'1000 talking nearly a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed upwards in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It's non personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.

Get out the gun. Take the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 moving picture almost a Mafia crime family 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 tin can't turn down.

Vito Corleone [edit]

• [to Bonasera] I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't desire his mother to see him this fashion. [pulls canvass to reveal Sonny'due south bullet-ridden body] Look how they massacred my boy.

• I spent my whole life trying not to be devil-may-care. Women and children tin afford to be careless, merely non men.

• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. Information technology is more the authorities. It is virtually the equal of family.

• You lot cannot say "no" to the people you beloved, not often. That's the secret. So when you practice, it has to sound like a "yes" or you have to make them say "no." You have to take time and trouble.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

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

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bitch! Exercise you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!

Dialogue [edit]

Amerigo Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American way. I gave her liberty, just 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 ago he took her for a drive, with another boy friend. They made her drinkable whiskey and then they tried to accept advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honour, so they trounce her like an animal. When I went to the infirmary her nose was cleaved. Her jaw was shattered, held together past wire. She couldn't even weep because of the pain, only I wept. Why did I weep? She was the lite of my life. A beautiful girl. Now she will never be beautiful once again. [sobs] Sorry. I went to the police, like a good American. These 2 boys were brought to trial. The estimate sentenced them to iii years in prison house, and suspended the judgement. Suspended sentence! They went costless that very 24-hour interval! I stood in the courtroom similar a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. And so I said to my wife, "For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."

Don Vito Corleone: Why did you get to the police? Why didn't yous come to me first?

Bonasera: What do you want of me? Tell me annihilation, simply 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 do.

Bonasera: I will requite you anything you ask.

Vito: We've known each other many years, but this is the first fourth dimension y'all ever came to me for counsel or for help. I can't remember the last fourth dimension that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only kid. Just let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were afraid to exist in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't want to get into problem.

Vito: I understand. You found paradise in America, you had a skilful trade, y'all made a skilful living, the police protected you, and there were courts of law. Yous didn't need a friend like me. Merely, now you come to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't ask with respect. Yous don't offer friendship. Yous don't even call up to call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my house on the 24-hour interval my daughter is to be married, and y'all ask me to do murder for money.

Bonasera: I inquire for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your daughter is nonetheless alive.

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

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I e'er washed to make yous treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, and then that scum that ruined your daughter would exist suffering this very 24-hour interval. And if by chance an honest human similar yourself should make enemies, and so they would become my enemies. And and so they would fear you.

Bonasera: Be my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito'south hand]

Vito: Skillful. Someday—and that day may never come—I'll call upon you to do a service for me. Just until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter'due south nuptials day.

Bonasera: Grazie, Godfather.

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

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Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a big band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to become out of it. Now, Johnny is my father'due south godson. And my begetter went to meet this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. Only the band leader said no. So the next day, my father went to run into 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 father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Kay: What was that?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my male parent assured him that either his brains - or his signature - would be on the contract. That's a true story. That's my family unit, Kay. It's not me.

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Johnny Fontane: A calendar month ago, he [Woltz] bought the movie rights to this book, a best-seller, and the main character, it's a guy just similar me. I, uh, I wouldn't fifty-fifty have to deed, only exist myself. [choking upward] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to exercise.

Don Vito Corleone: [shaking Johnny] Yous can act like a man! [He slaps Johnny.] What'due south the matter with you? Is this how you turned out, a Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? "Eheheh! What can I do? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You spend fourth dimension with your family?

Johnny: Sure I exercise.

Vito: Good, because a human who doesn't spend time with his family can never exist a real man. Come here. You look terrible. I desire you to eat. I want you to balance a while, and in a calendar month from now, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna give y'all what yous want.

Johnny: It's likewise tardily, they get-go shooting in a calendar week.

Vito: I'm gonna make him an offering he can't refuse. Now, yous only become outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want you, I desire yous to leave it all to me.

• The line in bold is ranked #2 in American Film Institute's list of the height 100 picture show 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 take a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't exist friendly very long if they knew my business organization was drugs instead of gambling, which they regard every bit a – a harmless vice. But drugs is a dirty business organization. It makes, it doesn't make whatsoever difference to me what a homo does for a living, empathise. But your business organisation is, uh, a little unsafe.

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

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

Vito: Wait a infinitesimal. I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, every bit yous tin can run across. They talk when they should heed. But anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate y'all on your new concern. I know you lot'll do very well, and expert luck to yous, especially since your interests don't conflict with mine. Cheers. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come hither. What'south the thing with you lot? I think your encephalon's going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that immature girl. Never tell anybody outside the family unit what you're thinking once more.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your boss is dead. I know you're not in the muscle-end of the family, Tom, so I don't want you to be scared. I want you to help the Corleones, and I want you to help me. [hands Tom a drink.] Yeah, we got him outside his office only nigh an hour after we picked you upward. Drink it. And so now it'southward upward to y'all to make the peace between me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my idea, wasn't he? And you knew it was the right thing to do.

Tom Hagen: Sonny'll come later you with everything he'due south got.

Sollozzo: That'll be his first reaction, certain. That's why you gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family unit is behind me with all their people. The other New York families will keep with annihilation that will prevent a total-scale war. Let's face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, rest in peace, was slipping. Ten years ago, could I have gotten to him? Well, now, he'southward dead. He's expressionless, Tom, and nothing tin bring him back, so you lot gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fat Clemenza. It's expert business, Tom.

Tom: I'll try, simply fifty-fifty Sonny won't be able to phone call off Luca Brasi.

Sollozzo: Yep, well, let me worry about Luca. You but talk to Sonny and the other 2 kids.

Tom: I'll do my all-time.

Sollozzo: Good. Now, you tin can go. I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a concern man. Blood is a large expense. [receives news from an arriving automobile] He's still alive. They striking him with five shots, and he's yet live! Well, that'southward bad luck for me, and bad luck for y'all if you don't make that deal!

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[Sonny opens a packet to find two fish wrapped in Luca'south impenetrable vest.]

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

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

• Notation: The line in bold was nominated for the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations.

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Michael: Who are you lot?

Enzo: I am Enzo, the baker. You remember me?

Michael: Enzo.

Enzo: Yes, Enzo.

Michael: You'd improve become out of here, Enzo, at that place's gonna be trouble.

Enzo: If there is trouble, I'll stay here to assist you. For your father. For your father.

Michael: Listen. Expect for me outside in front end of the hospital, all right? I'll be out in a infinitesimal. Go alee.

Enzo: OK, OK.

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Tom Hagen: This is business, not personal!

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: They shot my father. Information technology's concern, your ass!

Tom: Even shooting your father was business, not personal, Sonny!

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Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, correct? Information technology will exist me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Allow's set the meeting. Get our informers to observe out where it's gonna be held. Now, nosotros insist it's a public identify, a bar, a restaurant, some place where at that place's people so I experience condom. They're gonna search me when I first meet them, right? And so I tin can't accept a weapon on me and so. Only if Clemenza can figure a way, to have a weapon planted in that location for me, then I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to become mixed up in the family business huh? Now you wanna gun down a police helm. Why? Because he slapped you in the face a little flake? Hah? What do you retrieve this is, the Regular army? Where yous shoot 'em a mile abroad? You've gotta get up shut similar this and bada-bing! You accident their brains all over your dainty Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael's head.] You're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that you lot tin't kill a cop? I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'g talking about a quack cop and a crooked cop who got mixed upwards in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It's not personal, Sonny. It'due south strictly business organisation.

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Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as common cold as they come, impossible to trace, so you 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 thing? The trigger too tight?

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

Clemenza: Yeah, I left information technology noisy. That mode, it scares any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away. All right, you shot 'em both. Now what practise you do?

Michael: Sit down, cease my dinner.

Clemenza: Come up on, kid. Don't fool effectually. Just let your hand driblet to your side, and let the gun sideslip out. Everybody'll still think you got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike, so walk out of the place real fast, but don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, merely you don't look away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared stiff of you, believe me, then don't worry about zilch. You know, you gonna turn out all right. Y'all take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna take hold of the hell.

Michael: How bad do yous call up information technology's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families will line up confronting united states of america. That'southward all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to become rid of the bad claret. Been 10 years since the last one. Yous know, you gotta stop 'em at the start, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have let him get away with that. They was just asking for large trouble. You know, Mike, we was all proud of you, being a hero and all. Your male parent, too.

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

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

Fabrizio: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I think yous got hit by the thunderbolt.

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

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Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Did you have a good hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Y'all know all the girls effectually hither? We saw some real beauties. Ane of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt. She would tempt the devil himself. Actually put together. Such hair, such rima oris!

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] The girls effectually here are beautiful but virtuous.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] This 1 had a imperial clothes and a royal ribbon in her pilus. A type more Greek than Italian. Do yous know her?

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] No! In that location'southward no girl like that in his town.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] My God, I empathise! [gets upwardly to look at the cafe.]

Michael Corleone: [to Calo, in Sicilian] What's wrong?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Let'southward go. It's his daughter.

Michael: [in Sicilian] Tell him to come here. Call him. Fabrizio, you translate.

Fabrizio: Si, signor.

Michael: [with Fabrizio translating] I apologize if I offended you. I'm a stranger in this state and I meant no disrespect, to you or your daughter. I'm an American hiding in Sicily. My name is Michael Corleone. There are people who'd pay a lot of coin for that information, just and so 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 up to my house Sunday morning time. My name is Vitelli.

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

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

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Don Vito Corleone: [sees Tom Hagen with a beverage] Give me a drop. My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consigliere of mine, I call up you should tell your Don what everyone seems to know.

Tom Hagen: I didn't tell Mama anything. I was most to come upward and wake you and tell yous.

Vito: But you needed a drink kickoff.

Tom: Yeah.

Vito: Well, at present you've had your drink.

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

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

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Don Vito Corleone: [to the heads of the 5 Families] How did things ever get and then far? I don't know. Information technology was so unfortunate, and then unnecessary. Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son. We're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees, so I'thousand willing to allow things go along the manner they were before.

Don Emilio Barzini: Nosotros're all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this coming together. Nosotros all know him as a man of his word. A small-scale man who will always listen to reason.

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

Vito: When? When did I ever refuse an accommodation? All of you know me here. When did I ever refuse, except i fourth dimension? And why? Considering I believe this drug business is gonna destroy u.s.a. in the years to come up. I mean, it's non like gambling or liquor, even women, which is something that most people want nowadays and information technology's forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church building. Even the police departments have helped us in the past with gambling and other things. They're gonna refuse to help us when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that then, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times have inverse. Information technology's non similar the erstwhile days when we could do anything we want. 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 u.s.a. draw the h2o from the well. Certainly, he tin present a bill for such services. After all, we are non Communists!

Zaluchi: I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders. If you put up three, four thou dollar investment, we can make l yard distributing." So they can't resist. I want to command it as a business, to keep it respectable. I don't want it near schools! I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would continue the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, then let them lose their souls.

Vito: I hoped that we would come here and reason together. And as a reasonable man, I'm 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 united states of america protection in the east, and there volition exist the peace.

Tattaglia: Just I must accept strict assurance from Corleone. As time goes past and his position becomes stronger, volition he effort whatever individual vendetta?

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

Vito: You talk near vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. Just I accept selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to leave this country because of all this Solozzo business. All right. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back here safely, but I'g a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him—if he should get shot in the head past a police force officer, or if he should hang himself in his prison cell, or if he'due south struck by a commodities of lightning—and so I'm going to arraign some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive. But that aside, let me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will not be the one to break the peace that we accept made hither today.

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

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

Tom: Yous hateful Tattaglia?

Vito: Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've outfought Santino, just I didn't know until this twenty-four hours that it was Barzini all along.

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Michael Corleone: I'm working for my father now. He's been sick, very sick.

Kay Adams: Simply you're not like him, Michael. I thought you weren't going to become a man like your father. That'south what you told me.

Michael: My father'southward no different than any other powerful human being – any man who'south responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.

Kay: [laughs] You lot know how naïve you audio?

Michael: Why?

Kay: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.

Michael: Oh, who'southward being naïve, Kay? Kay, my father's fashion of doing things is over, it's finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in five years, the Corleone family unit is going to exist completely legitimate. Trust me. That's all I tin tell you lot near my business organization.

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Moe Greene: We had a footling statement, Freddy and I, then 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 homo similar Moe Greene similar that!

Michael Corleone: Fredo, y'all're my older brother, and I honey you, but don't ever have sides with anyone confronting the family unit once again, ever.

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Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna have to go through all this, and Fredo, well, Fredo was... just I never—I never wanted this for you. I worked my whole life—I don't apologize—to have 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'southward my life, only I thought that when information technology was your fourth dimension, that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

Vito: Well, there wasn't enough fourth dimension, Michael. Wasn't enough time.

Michael: We'll go in that location, Pop. We'll get there.

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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I promise Mike can become u.s.a. a good deal.

Tom Hagen: I'm sure he will.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Boss says he'll come in a split car. He says for y'all ii to go on ahead.

Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: Hell, he can't do that. Information technology screws upwards all my arrangements!

Cicci: Well, that'southward what he said.

Tom: I can't go either, Sal.

[Several button men close in effectually Tessio]

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

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

Sal: Tom, can you get me off the claw, for old time's sake?

Tom: Tin't do it, Sally.

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[While Carlo dials the phone, 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: You lot take to answer for Santino, Carlo.

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, y'all've got it all wrong!

Michael: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ah, that picayune farce you lot played with my sis. Did you think that would fool a Corleone?

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

Michael: Sit down.

Carlo: Please don't do this. Delight.

Michael: Barzini'south dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family business organization, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Admit what yous did. [Carlo breaks down] Get him a drink. Come up on. Don't exist agape, Carlo. Come on. You call up I'd make my sister a widow? I'1000 Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a drink] Go alee, drink. Drink. No, Carlo, yous're out of the family business, that's your penalisation. Nosotros're finished. I'm putting y'all on a plane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a aeroplane ticket] I want you to stay there, empathize? Only, don't tell me you're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. Information technology makes me very angry. Now who approached you lot: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: Information technology was Barzini.

Michael: Skillful. There's a car waiting for you exterior, information technology'll accept you lot to the aerodrome. I'll call your married woman and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, it was—

Michael: Proceed. Get out of my sight.

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

Peter Clemenza: Hey, Carlo. [strangles Carlo]

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[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 ask me about my business concern, Kay.

Kay: Is it true?

Michael: Don't inquire me about my business.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk] Plenty! All correct, this i time. This one time, I'll permit you lot ask me about my affairs.

Kay: Is it truthful? Is information technology?

Michael: No.

Kay: I guess we both need a drinkable, huh? Come on.

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael's hand every bit 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 – Captain 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

Come across too [edit]

• The Godfather: Part Ii
• The Godfather: Office III

External links [edit]

hannabinien.blogspot.com

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

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