Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Produced by Albert S. Ruddy

Screenplay by Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall

Running time: 177 minutes

Budget: $6-7.2 million. Box office: $246-287 million

Quite simply one of the best movies ever made.  Francis Ford Copolla brings Mario Puzo’s novel to the screen with breathtaking expertise, conviction and power.  Marlon Brando gives possibly the greatest performance in cinema history as the ageing Don Corleone who reluctantly sees his crime enterprise inherited by his war hero son Michael (Al Pacino).  A virtually perfect film.