Godfather (Wikipedia)

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy and based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel novel of the same name. The film stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family. The story, spanning the years 1945 to 1955, centers on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss while also chronicling the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone.