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As Don Vito Corleone handles requests and considers succession in postwar New York, an attack destabilizes the family. His youngest son Michael, initially determined to remain outside the business, is drawn into its obligations and violence.

Coppola joins Gordon Willis's shadowed interiors, stately pacing, and an ensemble of controlled performances to make family intimacy and criminal authority feel like parts of the same tragic inheritance.