The Godfather movies are iconic, but there was a TV iteration that was very different and utilized deleted scenes to tell a ...

Smart Rating: 100 Genre: Drama, crime drama Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of ...

Francis Ford Coppola at the 2024 DGA Honors in New York. Getty Images Coppola recalled that after the success of 1972’s “The Godfather,” Paramount Pictures was insistent on him making ...

Billy Zane made a stunning transformation into late film actor Marlon Brando. The 58-year-old appeared as a spitting image of Brando’s Don Vito Corleone from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 mob ...

On the heels of The Godfather (1972), Ruddy produced another box-office hit with the original The Longest Yard (1974), the prison-set football movie that starred Burt Reynolds. The pair then ...

Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II (1974). “But here’s the secret: Francis wanted me. He wanted me and I knew that,” wrote Pacino. “And there’s nothing like when a director wants you.

This is part two of a series on Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather Trilogy. You can read my reflection on the original film, “The Godfather” (1972), here.

Producer Al Ruddy, left, with actor Marlon Brando and director Francis Ford Coppola on the set of the 1972 movie “The Godfather.” The film brought Mr. Ruddy his first of two Academy Awards for ...