During his two years in Sicily, Michael falls in love with Apollonia, the daughter of a local cafe owner, and marries her. He then goes off to Sicily to hide, under the watchful eye of Don Tomassino. The plan goes off without a hitch, and Michael murders Sollozzo and McCluskey. He comes up with a plan to kill Sollozzo and McCluskey himself - if they don't, he asserts, the Don will be killed for sure. Sonny backs down, but Michael is not convinced. Back at the Corelone Mall, Tom Hagen warns Sonny that killing Sollozzo, and therefore, McCluskey, would ignite a war between the Corleones and the Tattaglias. In retaliation, McCluskey punches Michael, breaking his jaw. Afraid for his father's life, Michael jumps into action, hiding the Don in a different room and threatening McCluskey. The following night, Michael goes to visit his father in the hospital, but finds out that Sollozzo has paid off the crooked Police Captain, McCluskey, to send away all the protection that Sonny had arranged. The next day, Clemenza and Rocco Lampone take Paulie Gatto for a drive and murder him. That same night, Sonny receives a package from Sollozzo, containing Luca Brasi's bulletproof vest wrapped around some dead fish, an old Sicilian message meaning "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes". Sonny realizes that Paulie Gatto, the Don's bodyguard, sold him out and orders Gatto's execution. Michael finds out about the attack on his father by reading about it in the newspaper and immediately returns to the Corleone Mall. After his meeting with Tom Hagen, though, Sollozzo finds out that Don Corleone has survived the attack. Sollozzo pushes Hagen to encourage Sonny to accept his deal. Meanwhile, Sollozzo has kidnapped Tom Hagen and tells him that the Don is dead. Later, Don Corleone is gunned down by Sollozo's thugs in the street. However, Sollozzo and Tattaglia are onto Don Corleone's move and kill Brasi. After the meeting, Don Corleone sends Luca Brasi to find out more about Sollozzo and the Tattaglia Family, who support his activities in New York. Don Corleone refuses the offer - if he gets involved in the narcotics trade, he may lose valuable political connections. The next morning, Woltz wakes up with the severed head of Khartoum tangled in his bedsheets.īack in New York, Don Corleone, Sonny, Fredo, Tom Hagen, and caporegimes Tessio and Clemenza meet with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, who requests a cash infusion and protection for his narcotics trade. However, over dinner, Woltz tells Hagen that he cannot give Johnny Fontane the role because he seduced one of Woltz's proteges. Woltz makes sure to show off Khartoum, his $600,000 stud horse. Later, after finding out that Tom Hagen works for Don Corleone, Woltz has a change of heart, inviting the consigliere to his vast Hollywood estate. Woltz explodes and insists that he will not be intimidated by "goombas", and sends Hagen away. In Los Angeles, Tom Hagen tells Woltz that if he casts Johnny Fontane in the leading role, Hagen's anonymous client will help him with his union problems. After slapping his godson across the face for his display of weakness, Don Corleone promises to make Woltz "an offer he can't refuse". Later, Johnny Fontane sits on Don Corleone's desk, lamenting the fact that he is desperate for a role in a new war film, but the studio head, Jack Woltz, has refused to consider him. The wedding guests are treated to an impromptu performance by Johnny Fontane, a famous crooner and actor - and Don Corleone's godson. Upon introducing her to his family and their "business", Michael assures Kay that he is not like his family. Meanwhile, Michael, the youngest son, comes to the wedding dressed in his Marine uniform, accompanied by his WASP girlfriend, Kay Adams. Sonny's younger brother, Fredo, is a simple-minded, ineffective party animal. Sonny, Don Vito's eldest son, is the hot-headed, philandering Underboss of the Family. During the wedding scene, director Francis Ford Coppola introduces his audience to the vital members of the Corleone Crime Family. While Don Corleone conducts business in his shadowy office at the Corleone Mall in Long Beach, Long Island, the wedding of his daughter, Constanzia "Connie" Corleone and Carlo Rizzo is underway in the courtyard. He has come to the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone, to enact justice where the law has failed. Bonasera's daughter is disfigured as a result of a brutal attack by her boyfriend and his friends. In a dark room, Amerigo Bonasera, a Sicilian-born undertaker, describes his plight.
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