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MORE Godfather Pics!
THE BAPTISM
This is the baptism scene from the Godfather part 1 (1972). In the movie, as Michael is becoming godfather to his sister Connie's baby boy Michael Rizzi, Michael's henchmen are eliminating all of the heads of the five families. |
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Mamma Corleone's Wake
Fredo (John Cazale) hugs Michael at their mother Carmella's viewing in 1959. Shortly after the viewing, Michael ordered one of his henchmen, Al Neri (Richard Bright), to take Fredo in a small boat in the middle of the lake nearby Michael's home in Nevada and shoot Fredo in the back of the head while fishing. Neri succeeded in his mission and Fredo was killed.Johnny Ola (Dominic Chianese) told Fredo that Michael and Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) were negotiating a big business deal. Ola also talked Fredo into believing that Fredo could speed up the negotiations by working with Ola and Roth and it would benefit Fredo and the Corleone family. Roth ordered a hit to try to get Michael out of the picture. Roth's henchmen fired at Michael's bedroom. Despite violent machine gun fire, Michael and his wife Kay were not hurt. Fredo didn't know Roth was going to order a hit, but tried to keep his involvement a secret. Michael found out that the traitor in the family was Fredo when Fredo was in Cuba with Michael in an exotic night club. Fredo bragged about how he knew Ola and Roth personally to some of his friends. Michael was standing behind Fredo while this was going on and finally knew who betrayed him.
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Joe Zasa
The picture at left, from the Godfather part 3, is Joe Zasa (Joe Mantegna). Michael Corleone gave Joey a small piece of his empire in New York City after his (Michael's) crime business in America became legitimate...despite Michael's hidden loathing for Joey.Zasa was killed by Vincent, against Michael's orders, in a parade after Zasa, backed up by Don Altobello (Eli Wallach) and Don Lucchesi (Enzo Robutti), ordered an unorthadoxed hit on the commission in Atlantic City. A helicopter hovered above the room and a volley of violent machine gun fire ripped through the glass windows, killing most of the dons. Michael, the most important member of the commission, survived the surprise attack by Zasa. This picture is Zasa at the parade just before Vincent (who was dressed as a New York City police officer on horseback) guns him down in cold blood. |
Vincent Mancini (Andy Garcia)
Vincent, born shortly after his father (Sonny Corleone) was killed, became Don Vincent Corleone when Michael stepped down as Don in the Godfather III and passed the torch to Vincent at Don Tommasino's (Vittorio Duse) viewing.Tommasino was a long-time friend, ally, and business partner of Michael and his father. He was killed by Mosca who was trying to talk Tommasino into letting him (Mosca) kill Michael, who was at Tommasino's residence at the time. |
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VITO CORLEONE WITH HIS GRANDDAUGHTER
This is Vito Corleone with one of Sonny and Sandra Corleone's daughters. She also has an identical twin. Although Sonny constantly cheats on Sandra (played by Julie Gregg) with Lucy Mancini, he still loves Sandra and his children. |
VITO AND TATTAGLIA
This is Vito Corleone (right) hugging Philip Tattaglia (left) after concluding the meeting of the heads of the five families that Vito arranged after the brutal murder of his son Sonny. Emilio Barzini (far left clapping) ordered the murder of Sonny along with the help of Sonny's friend Carlo Rizzi for beating him up in retaliation for mistreating Connie. |
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My father's name was Antonio Andolini!
This is young Vito telling an elderly Don Ciccio (Giuseppe Sillato) that his father was Antonio Andolini. Vito then slashes Ciccio's stomach with a knife he had hidden under a coat. Antonio Andolini was murdered by Ciccio over 20 years earlier in 1901. Ciccio decided to kill Antonio's male heirs because he was afraid they would take revenge against him. Vito's older brother, Paolo, swore revenge but was killed at his father's funeral. Several days later, Ciccio's men went to Vito's home, knocked on the door and told his mother to take him to go to Don Ciccio's residence: Ciccio was going to kill Vito. Vito's mother (Maria Carta) bravely took her only living son to Ciccio's home hoping to reason with him.When they arrived, she pleaded with Ciccio not to kill her son, even kissing his hand when she greeted him despite all the terrible things he had done to her and her family. Ciccio said no to her plea. Vito's mother then took out a knife in utter rage and held it to his neck threatening to kill him. She yelled at Vito to run away. Ciccio escaped and his goons blew her away with their shotguns. Ciccio told his henchmen to run after the 9-year-old Vito (Oreste Baldini) as he ran for his life. Vito escaped because some local residents hid him in a basket on the back on a donkey. Vito would emmigrate to America, marry, have children, become a criminal and then twenty-some years after his father's murder, settle the vendetta between him and Ciccio. |
Mary Corleone
Mary Corleone (Sofia Coppola) was Michael's second child. She was accidentally murderd by Mosca (Mario Donatone) on Easter of 1980 in Palermo. Mosca was the assassin hired by Don Lucchesi (Enzo Robutti) to kill Michael. |
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JOHNNY FONTANE
Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) is shown here pleading with Vito Corleone. Fontane is complaining about how his singing voice feels weak and that he needs to go into a movie that Jack Woltz (John Marley) is about to make. Woltz won't give it to him.However, Don Corleone took matters into his own hands. After trying, and failing, to get Tom Hagen to talk Woltz into allowing Fontane to star in the film, Vito ordered that his goons chop off the head of Woltz's prized 600,000 dollar horse. Sure enough, Woltz woke up in the morning with his horse's head in his bed and quickly changed his mind. Fontane was allowed to star in the film thanks to his Godfather! |
Sonny beating up Carlo
This picture, from the Godfather part 1, Sonny beating up Carlo Rizzi. After hearing that Carlo beat his younger sister Connie, Sonny's temper went out of control.Sonny, Vito's oldest, was violently murdered while stopped at a bridge toll booth in his car. Sonny handed the cashier a dollar. The car in front of him backed up to keep Sonny from driving on the bridge. The toll cashier dropped the change and ducked for cover. A line of goons with Tommy guns from the Barzini crime family stood up in the adjacent toll booth. Suddenly, a hail of formidable Tommy-gun fire engulfed Sonny's winshield. From the car in front of him. Sonny, getting pelted with bullets, managed to get out of the passenger side of the car. He didn't get far, however, when he got a deadly volley of bullets to his body. Sonny fell to the ground with a horrible scream as he died. To add insult to injury, one of the goons kicked Sonny's helpless body and opened fire on Sonny's body from head to toe. |
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Young Vito in 1920
This is young Vito (Robert De Niro) in 1920. He is shown here killing Don Fanucci (Gastone Moschin), shooting Fanucci three times: heart, face, and mouth. He killed him in front of Fanucci's apartment located in the "Little Italy" section of New York. Fanucci was abusing his power and taking advantage of hard-working and honest Italian immigrants.Vito became very powerful after killing Fanucci. He went on to own the Genco Olive Oil company and become a mob boss and start the Corleone crime family. |
GODFATHER!
This is a photo from the Godfather. It is Amerigo Bonasera kissing Vito Corleone's hand. Bonasera went to Vito to help get revenge for his daughter's brutal beating.Vito agreed only if Bonasera did a favor for him in return. Vito said, "One day, that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me." That day came in 1948. After his son, Sonny, was killed, Vito asked Bonasera, who is an undertaker, to fix Sonny's face so that Sonny's mother wouldn't have to see him in the disfigured condition he was in. |
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Vincent Mancini and Don Altobello
In this Godfather 3 pic, Vincent Mancini (left) is talking to Don Altobello (Eli Wallach). Michael told Vincent to go to Altobello and act like he (Vincent) was going to turn against Michael and take over.This was a trick to see if Altobello was an enemy of Michael. What Michael feared was the truth....Altobello, along with Don Lucchesi (Enzo Robutti), backed up Joe Zasa in Zasa's failed effort to eliminate Michael. |
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