The Godfather Part II: Book vs. Movie
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II (1974) draws partly on Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel The Godfather, following Vito Corleone’s early life alongside a new story about Michael’s leadership of the family.
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
- Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 2 hr 45 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro
- Genre
- action, Crime, crime drama, crime thriller, Drama, epic, flashback, gangster, historical, historical drama, Mystery, police procedural, Suspense, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
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.
Every movie of this book
- 1
The GodfatherMovie · 1972Details
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer
- Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 2 hr 55 min
- Cast
- Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall
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.
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