The Godfather: Book vs. Movie
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film The Godfather adapts Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel. As threats against the Corleone family grow, Michael is drawn toward the criminal business he has tried to avoid.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Mario Puzo
- Year
- 1969
- Pages
- 448Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 18 hr 48 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Joe Mantegna, Anthony Puzo, Angelo Di Loreto
- Series
- The Godfather, book 1
Vito Corleone grants favors that the law will not provide, binding the people who seek his help to a network of debts and loyalty. As rival criminals challenge his position, the novel follows his family and their dependents through the business of power, including the growing involvement of Michael, the son who has tried to remain apart.
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer
- Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 2 hr 55 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall
- Genre
- Crime, Drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Michael Corleone returns from military service determined to keep his girlfriend and his future separate from his father’s criminal business. When an attack on Vito destabilizes the family, Michael steps closer to its operations, and protecting his relatives begins to demand decisions that bring him into the violence he intended to avoid.
Every movie of this book
- 1The GodfatherMovie · 1972You are here
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The GodfatherThe Godfather Part II · Movie · 1974Details
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer
- Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 2 hr 45 min
- Cast
- Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro
An attempt on Michael Corleone’s life inside his Lake Tahoe estate leaves him searching for a traitor as he pursues business interests in Cuba. His efforts to secure the family’s position deepen his suspicions of the people closest to him. Decades earlier, his father Vito arrives in America from Sicily and builds a life in New York, where a neighborhood extortionist stands between him and a livelihood.
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