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It’s the 1940s and the ‘Godfather’ Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the head of New York’s most powerful Mafia family. His youngest son Michael, who fought in World War II, has returned home a hero. A few months later, the don barely survives being shot by gunmen in the employ of Sollozzo (Al Lettieri), a drug-trafficking rival. After saving his father from a second assassination attempt, Michael persuades his eldest brother, Sonny (James Caan), Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Salvatore ‘Sal’ Tessio (Abe Vigoda) that he should, as a civilian, be the one to exact revenge on the men responsible. After murdering McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), a corrupt police captain, and Sollozo, Michael hides out in Sicily while a gang war erupts at home. Michael falls in love and marries a local girl but she is later slain by Corleone enemies in an attempt on Michael’s life. Meanwhile, Sonny is also butchered.

As Michael returns home and convinces Kay to marry him, his father recovers and makes peace with his rivals. Once Michael has been groomed as the new don, he leads the family to a new era of prosperity, then launches a campaign of murderous revenge against those who once tried to wipe out the Corleone’s.