Now almost 50 years later since The Godfather was released, those deleted scenes should be put back in the film and release it as the unedited version.
The old woman was telling Michael that the house was deserted and it's been that way for a long time....Vito's father was killed, then his brother, and his mother died trying to kill Don Ciccio....so that's why Vito home is deserted.
My favorite scene in the Godfather I is when Michael & Don Vito have their talk in the backyard before Vito dies, that's the scene that touches the heart, a father & his son talking and having time together.
Good scene, no doubt. But my favorite is when Michael warns Fredo to not ever take sides against the family. It had more tension and great characters all around. It made seeing Mo Green taking a bullet in the eye later on A LOT more impactful.
NO scenes in The Godfather should have been cut. All scenes were part of tbe storyline. Great epic, classic story of the beginning. Loved the entire trilogy. ❤❤😊😊
I'm glad they cut the first scene. Having Paulie get whacked right out of the blue was much more effective then having it be set up. They should have shown the restaurant scene as it shows how he got his cannoli. lol
I had watched that on cable. If i remember correctly, Cinemax had aired Parts 1 & 2 with all deleted scenes. I wouldn’t know about streaming services showing the same now.
@@studogable I may be wrong, but I do not think Vito would have wanted Michael to be involved in the middle of a war with the other families. Vito had made it clear earlier in the film that he wanted Michael to have much better things in life.
@@antonioacevedo5200 he did. That's why he cried when Michael saved him at the hospital. He knew how the life worked, and that there was no turning back. By the time Michael returned from Sicily, he was Vito's heir apparent, for better or for worse.
The have a director's cut version that they show in my city once a years with all three movies in succession. They include all deleted scenes. I watch them every year. I never get tired of watching the Godfather movies.
And again and again, I learn this story, movie...whatever,...thank you for this! My only wish is that I can see the "full" movie someday....whatever it may cost..
Rocco move over to the other side. You're blocking the rear view mirror. Oh yeah I was just trying to get a good view of the back your head for later. What? Oh nothing.
The guy who played Carlo showed up in the small town I live in last year as a crooner who sang to people sitting in booths eating sundaes and turkey clubs... This being one of my all time favorite movies, seeing him denigrate the film in this fashion, it's left me with a sick feeling every time I watch it. All the guy who plays Carlo said is that he should've gotten the role of Sonny... Thanks for posting this! Even Carlo the schmuck can't ruin something that's pure genius.
+lindsey lefrois The guy that played Luca was involved with the Mafia in real life. There's a movie called the Sinatra club that's based on a former mobsters book. He has a scene in the movie about the guys part in the Godfather movie.
+Shirley D Luca also came to my cousin's wedding, as a friend of someone on the bride's side I believe. He was out on the dance floor near the end of the evening looking really happy.
I know time was a huge factor in making these movies, but the scene with Michael waking up and asking about Appalonia, after her death, would have been great to have been left in. I always wondered how he felt because it was skipped over so quickly.
gina you make a great point, and it is a great scene, but I prefer the final version without it. We don’t see Michael after Appalonia for a long time. He is in America, and has been for a long time, but he’s different. He’s cruel, calculated, and rarely shows any emotion or reaction to anything. He becomes a true don. The tragedy hardened him, and ultimately made him a monster. It’s only in part 3, when he has regrets, that his mind goes to Appalonia and we see how much it still affects him after so many years. I think this change is much more impactful without seeing him grieve.
But what was Michael waking up from?? Was he supposed to have been injured from the car explosion? The movie makes it appear that he was a fairly safe distance from the car when it exploded
In my honest opinion and while I respect yours, I will kindly disagree. I mean, the whole rest of the movie from that point makes it more than clear how it affected Michael and how it made him way more cold/calculated.
2:42 The scene with the flag-waving Communist parade going to Portella Della Ginestra is actually a nod to a true important event in the history of post-war Sicily and the Mafia. To understand more about it you'll have to read Mario Puzo other novel "The Sicilian" or, better, watch Francesco Rosi's wonderful docudrama "Salvatore Giuliano".
Alpha 119 I prefer it with Michael NOT revealing to Vito’s face that he’s breaking the peace. It kind of tells the audience the ending, lol, plus in the book, it was unspoken and implied that Vito knew Michael would do this when Vito made the peace to begin with. Even though Vito makes the pledge on his grandchildren’s souls, he knows the peace will be broken when Michael takes revenge and assumes all power. It shows how brutal and cunning Vito was even in his old age. It’s better left unsaid, only in my opinion.
@@lwmson I agree. That baptism scene is Iconic because of how shocking it was to see all the threats to the Corleone's being offed in one sequence. And the way it was juxtaposed with the baptism was amazing too.
I have a 3 vhs set called the complete epic. It runs from Vito being a child till Michael becoming boss. Runs in chronological order. It's amazing and a few of these scenes are in it.
I swear...Carlo had to be the STUPIDEST character in film history lol Not only did he verbally disrespect the daughter of the Don but routinely BEAT!?! Shiiiit lol
Strangely, he would have continued to get away with it, because of the "never interfere in a married couple's affairs" credo, reinforced by both Mama and Don Vito Corleone at separate points in the film. I'm pretty sure had Connie ever said, kill him, he'd have been fish food in nothing flat. As we know, Sonny was set up by the fighting, but would have killed Carlo, instead of just kicking his ass in the street, had his mother and father not been alive. In the end, I think Michael avenged what he did to both Connie and Sonny. Kind of funny and ironic that Sonny told Connie, "you think I'd make your kid an orphan?" and Michael told Carlo, "you think I'd make my sister a widow?" when both were going to kill him eventually.
The book implied that wife-beating was considered nobody's business but the couple involved, and was generally accepted... remember the scene at the dinner table after Carlo tells Connie to shut up, and Sonny said "dont you ever tell her to shut up!", and Mamma Corleone tells Sonny "don't interfere"?
The dialog between Paulie and Clemenza really makes this scene, starting at 2:16 really makes that scene. Clemenza played it out so Paulie had no suspicions that they were going to whack him. That is a scene they should have left in!
They should have kept Mike sick in bed in. Apollonia’s death changed his entire being. She was his character arch. He loved Kay but Apollonia was the first girl he ever loved. Her death caused him to know what was real in his life. He loved her and he lost her. It changed him no matter if he went back to Kay. She changed him.
I think the undertaker telling his wife that he was afraid of the other families coming after him because he was involved with the Corleone's was very telling.
I don't think they ever questioned Tom's intelligence. I think they just wanted him relatively clean. Fredo on the other hand, they knew he was an idiot
Those last two scenes were incredible, both made me want to see more. I think that they should have been left in. Obviously, Michael was going to want revenge for Sonny's death and for what happened in Sicily. It wouldn't have hurt the film to have him reveal his intentions n a conversation with his father.
There's another deleted scene that shows Fabrizio running a pizza place in Buffalo, NY, closing up for the night, and then getting blown up when he starts his car to go home.
That one should definitely have made it into the final cut. Maybe they could still splice some of these gems in. The tradition of the American gangster film is that every SOB gets what's coming to him (or her) in the final reel. "The Godfather" in particular made a big climax of tying up the loose ends, but the rat Fabrizio was one they missed.
Daniel Toma the scene where Fabriso was closing up his Pizza parlor for the night & then he gets into his car to start to go home was in the Godfather II, Michael got vengeance on Fabriso for killing his first wife Appolonia.
It's easy to see why some of these were cut; the Godfather is remarkably well-paced and as fun as these little bits with Clemenza in the car or some shots in Sicily are, they'd add up to slow the film down. But those scenes with Michael in bed, Connie and Carlo, and the conversation between Vito and Michael were excellent and I wish they were left in. We never see much of Michael's relationship with his father, and it's fascinating to watch Pacino and Brando work off one another.
Fabrizzio! Lol. How many people have spent a college semester overseas or stayed with a host family abroad and run into a "Fabrizzio" asking "Take me back to America with you!" Most annoying thing to deal with.
Agreed. They really didn't add anything of value to the movie. Adding these boring scenes would've only lengthened the movie, w/o any realy purpose. The Godfather is a masterpiece, as is. Every scene is a work of art. It's perfect. To add or subtract anything, would only spoil it.
I would have loved to see the scene where Vito dies, according to the book, with the hands of the son he loved the most (Michael) on his own hands, Thank you for posting the video:)
The scene with Clemenza and Rocco should've stayed in the movie cause it showed Rocco proving himself to Clemenza and the family. I only wish Coppolla added more of the storylines of Rocco and Al Neri joining the family into the Godfather. In the book Al Neri was a badass and that should've been added to the movie
I agree, Rocco and All become a huge part of the family, but are basically just bit parts in the films..I wish they would do a Godfather movie that begins where the 2nd film left off, and portray the years between Godfathers 2 & 3...post Cuba, the Kennedy assassinations, and you can cut back and forth to the prohibition era, when Vito was rising in power... But most of all, they need to focus on Tom Hagan...obviously he was growing very concerned and disillusioned with the whole situation...and the way he was just brushed off with Godfather 3 was my biggest disappointment...I don't understand why Coppola didn't think he was worth as much as Dianne Keaton!
+Mikeymike301 In the book, Neri had in fact been a rank-and-file cop before being kicked off the police force for killing a drug user during an arrest (i.e., excessive force).
+lindsey lefrois Yeah, I remember this, and it was highly unusual for anyone who was a cop, or who EVEN has a cop in their family to ever be made. Neri was a special case.
+iamhim It happened in "The Valachi Papers". An associate of Valachi's wanted to get "made" but had a brother who was a cop, which made getting "made" impossible for that particular guy. Later on, a boss (i.e., a "family" boss) got the guy into his family, being powerful enough as a boss to get around that rule. That aside, "The Godfather" was full of things that were very unlikely or just never could happen.
lindsey lefrois it could be that Neri was based on the guy you mentioned... I think ALOT of the characters were based on real life mobsters and associates... Mo Green = Bugsy Siegel, Hyman Roth = Meyer Lansky, I think the Rasato Brothers were based on "Crazy Joe" and Albert "Kid Blast" Gallo (check out Bob Dylan's song "Joey"), and of course there's Johnny Fontane = Frank Sinatra
I think he was able to stand but not walk. Remember "The Godfather" (part one) in the scene where Tomasino got out of the car to talk to Michael ("Michael, why are you so far from the house?") He stood but he didn't walk. He held onto the car door.
@rossharmonics I agree 100%...all of these deleted scenes make me wish the movie was 4 hrs long. I'd love to see a "new-release" on DVD or even in the theaters again that have all of these old scenes restored back into the picture. Again, thanks for posting this. b/b)O(
I agree, that scene should not have been deleted. It showed Michael's soft side. He truly loved Apollonia. It was very emotional to me. I don't think he loved Kay that way.
Al Pacino: “Michael loved Kay when he met her and he loved her throughout his life and he loves her to this day. He not only loves her but also admires her.” Kay is Michael’s true love. Even Michael says that to Kay in Sicily. Please go watch the movies first.
The Don and Michael had the Best Father/Son Relationship ever on Screen. You never saw him have these One On One Conversations with Sonny or Fredo. He saw in Michael a form of Smartness that the others didn't have.
Ah, it was still a deleted scene nonetheless, it was funny too. And the one with them visiting Genco in the hospital, the part where Vito asks Michael what the ribbons are on his uniform(Christmas decorations lol).
For everyone's general info, almost all the "deleted scenes found here and the rest oF UA-cam WERE INCLUDED BACK INTO THE RELEASE OF "The Godfather, The Complete Epic." The film is over 7 hours and takes the flashbacks of II and puts them in chronological order along with deleted scenes from both I and II. If you look hard enough, you can still obtain copies of the epic. I highly recommend it.
@TheCfh4life When I read the book, I thought the scene with Genco would have been terrific. The way Coppola captured it in the deleted scence makes you regret the movie wasn't four hours long. There are so many movies that drag. Each film in the Godfather trilogy is paced so well from beginning to end. I also love the scenes with Sonny from the time he gets the new about his father being shot to the scence where he asks Michael whether it was Pauli or Clemenza who set him up.
There are just so many interesting little side stories that wound up on the cutting room floor. In Part Two (which is a third of the way in Godfather Legacy) Michael gets revenge for the death of his Sicilian wife! I was so happy to see he didn't forget about her, which is how it looked in the "Classic" versions!
The man standing over the bed is "Don" Tomasino. Michael was under his protection while living in Sicily. The other people are probably just his household servants.
Most of this SHOULD have been cut out. But much was left out that was never created. The only 2 scenes that were awesome here were when Michael told the Don "You gave your word, I didnt give mine." That should have never been cut. The scene with carlo in the shower added nothing and neither did the babbling old woman, or the woman spraying water.The bodyguard was annoying with the "take me to america' whining and singing a song. Maybe they could have left in the scene about clemenza talking about wooden bumpers but only real addicts like us would appreciate small talk like that. The rest of the stuff was right to cut. In fact the part where michael talked to the don about "its a sign of weakness", that should have been expanded on for at least a few minutes.That was the 2nd awesome scene! Wow, we all never realized that the only thing coppolla gave us there was when the Don talked abouut how hes drinking too much wine and Michael said "its good for you pop." Then a couple of babbling sentences about "I never wanted this for you..." and the entire shift of power to michael was either deleted or never put in the movie. Do all of you realize what we just discovered? This was the weakness of the movie. They should have had michael at least reminiscing about it in godfather. 2 but that whole shift of power from the Don to Michael needed at least 10 min even if the movie was already too long. I always felt instinctively since i saw the movie in the theatres that as brilliant as this movie was, it could have been better.Too many things cut out. I say there were much more deleted scenes than this, in fact i saw then a few yrs ago on a television special. Its almost an hour of deleted scenes! Also..the way they got to Carlo to betray the don could have been an incredible moment in the picture. Godfather 3 should have been made to fill in all these missing pieces instead of duvall backing out of the damn movie. godfather 3 really should have connected the pieces. it could have opened up with someone saying...."Uncle mike, what was it like when you first started working for grandpa".....and just continue from there. we didnt need this immobilari and the pope drama. And also the deleted scene here where tom said "Why am i being left out." That could be a 15 min scene in itself. and the fact that the godfather said almost nothing about that is rediculous. the only thing they cut out was what we saw here with the don saying "see i knew this wouldnt escape his eyes." Thats all they planned to have don corleone say about that matter? I guess we Godfather addicts would love to see francis start from scratch and make it all over again.. we'd all be thrilled to leave out godfather 3 and have him make 2 more like the 1st 2. In fact, its sad that in all these years since both godfathers were made, you can count on one hand the amount of great gangster pics that were made. WTF happened to hollywood?
I think that it was wise to edit out the entire scene with Michael and his dad talking in the garden upon Michael's return home. When we hear him say, "You gave your word; I didn't give mine... I take full responsibility," that gives the climax of the movie away. We would have known the direction that Mike was going in and it would have become too predictable. After all, what makes The Godfather so compelling and mesmerizing is watching Michael transition from being a "nice college boy" into the callous Mafia don.
The scene from Woltz's mansion, the young teen girl that he'd had the party for on-set running out distraught, a prisoner of his foul lusts. And abetted by the same woman from the movie lot, (her mother? the quintessential Hollywood mom?). that was what Tom Hagen reported, and why the enforcer they sent decapitated Khartoum.
One scene they left out that was included in the long version shown on tv is the scene with the undertaker and his wife right after The Don calls him and asks him if he's now ready to return the favor for his Don. He was quarreling with his wife not realizing that the favor he was going to be asked was to clean up the "massacred" body of Sonny and make it presentable for viewing by his mother.
Bonasera didnt know what he wanted. He assumed he would be told to get rid of the body of someone the Don had killed, it was only when he told him that he realised what he wanted
Why in the fucking hell do they how to remove the scene where Michael gains consciousness after the car explosion which killed Apollonia? Doesn't this scene shows how sad and vengeant Michael was?
we see the aftereffects, so we don't really need to see this scene, because we can imagine it on our own. to see micheal being so cold with kay after the explosion scene is more shocking that way. you get the cardinal information you need: michael has irreversibly changed. coppola went for a more slick storytelling, which involves the intelligence and the imagination of the viewer.
Good call on leaving out the part where Clemenza told the guy "You're gonna make your bones on Paulie." I didn't see it coming when Clemenza had him pull over. I was like "Oh fuck!"
Also in part 2 for some reason they deleted the scene where De Niro is in sicily and he kills 2 of don Ciccio's henchmen 1 lying in his bed and another on a boat in the middle of a lake. They should of included these scenes in the 2nd film.
Don Ciccio was right. Not for wanting to murder a 9 year old, but about that boy growing into a strong man who would take his revenge. The self-fulfilling prophecy of a coward.
8:30 good scene shouldve stayed in the movie it would've helped to make the movie more sense with these scenes added in. But it's like Vito felt fearful talking about his young life in Sicily of the town of Corleone. Where he remembers seeing his mother being shot and killed and him not knowing what to do running away going to America like he wasn't to open about it though, but he tried to preserve a good life for Michael his family but they all made poor choices in life.
If you've read the book, Michael does in fact go after fabrizo (sp?) for Apollonia. There's a whole shpeal about his tattoo on his chest which is how they identify him, and they find him in a pizzeria in new York and kill him on the spot.
April 29th at Radio City music hall both Godfather movies and a panel of the actors after. Coppola , Pacino , Duvall , Shire, Cann, Keaton all will be there and so will I . can't wait !!!
Deleting these scenes helped much for the godfather to become what it is. Breaking up the storyline like this makes the viewer think a bit more about what happens and become part of the story.
This is not complete. Missing a few, including the scenes with Sonny speaking to Mama Corleone right after the Don is shot, and him going to the office and calling for more button men.
Saga has/had removed scene with undertaker Buonasera hastily dressing to meet Don Corleone after Tom has called him "...now you know you owe your Don a service, he has no doubt you will repay it....". Worries and frets to his wife as she helps him dress wondering what will be asked of him, of course he has no idea what has happened to Sonny, then in the scene following we all know with the shot from the elevator descending to the basement of his funeral parlor, the Don weeps. Chilling! CW
It strikes me as being a bit of a risk at 5:18 for Michael to say that he is the son of Vito Andolini - as his father had admitted to having changed his name to Corleone (albeit in GF2)
Now almost 50 years later since The Godfather was released, those deleted scenes should be put back in the film and release it as the unedited version.
That happened decades ago with the release of "The Complete Epic," which put all the flashbacks of II into chronological order and added before I.
@@MarcPipistrello i was wondering what set i should get- now i know. thank you
Deleted for a reason. Slows the pace, alternate takes are better etc
Kinda hard to make the best movie ever any better
I was thinking the same. I would sit for 8 hrs watching the whole damn thing. This is my favourite movie EVER. Nothing else comes close.
Wow!! This movie could have been 4+ hours and I would still enjoy every minute of it
Apparently studio didn't feel the same way. All cuts were made for satisfying the studio
I always like Clemenza. I felt that Clemenza, Tom Hagen, and Al Neri were the only family members that were truly loyal to the Corleone Family
Luca Brasi
+Matthew Myers He sleeps with the fishes.
Ed Kane Genco in the Godfather part II
+Sgt Downs Genco was consiglieri, he was a tough guy.
"Hello Carlo"
I loved Clemeza. They should've left all his scenes in. He was very authentic
I love all these outtakes, but there's only so much time you can spend w/ Clemenza having lunch,and so forth because the films are so long already.
Eric Garcia He gets its naturally. In real life. His uncle was Big Paul. Former head of the gambino crime family. That John Gotti killed in 1985.
I always liked clemenzas house.Those are the houses i remember in my childhood in brooklyn and queens.
studinthemaking well they have the same last name, I know but I don't think they were related. The actor was from the Bronx.
Fuckin A!!
The old woman was telling Michael that the house was deserted and it's been that way for a long time....Vito's father was killed, then his brother, and his mother died trying to kill Don Ciccio....so that's why Vito home is deserted.
Thanks
Thank you. :)
Oh boy. Those were some spoilers, alright
We already know
I’m shocked in the third movie that with all of Michael’s power he still can’t get access to the house where his father was born.
My favorite scene in the Godfather I is when Michael & Don Vito have their talk in the backyard before Vito dies, that's the scene that touches the heart, a father & his son talking and having time together.
Good scene, no doubt. But my favorite is when Michael warns Fredo to not ever take sides against the family. It had more tension and great characters all around. It made seeing Mo Green taking a bullet in the eye later on A LOT more impactful.
Vito loved Michael soo much
The scene where Michael goes to the childhood home of Don Vito was the best. I replayed it over and over, it should have been kept in the movie
NO scenes in The Godfather should have been cut. All scenes were part of tbe storyline. Great epic, classic story of the beginning. Loved the entire trilogy. ❤❤😊😊
The deleted scenes clip is better than most movies out todsy.
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I'm glad they cut the first scene. Having Paulie get whacked right out of the blue was much more effective then having it be set up. They should have shown the restaurant scene as it shows how he got his cannoli. lol
We already knew Paulie was dead after Sonny ordered it.
I recently saw The Godfather Epic (which shows both parts 1 & 2 in chronological order); all those 'deleted' scenes were shown.
PeekaBooo08 where can you watch it?
@PeekaBooo21,, please answer
I had watched that on cable. If i remember correctly, Cinemax had aired Parts 1 & 2 with all deleted scenes. I wouldn’t know about streaming services showing the same now.
ha ha ha Clemenza stuffs his face while claiming to be talking to Sonny.
Waddaya dahkin’ bout? He dahked his eeyuh ooaff, he said so himself...
In the final scene, Vito is genuinely happy Michael wants to break the truce and avenge Sonny's death.
I interpreted it differently. Michael had been exiled to Sicily for his protection for a while and the Don was just happy to have him back home.
@@antonioacevedo5200 both!
@@studogable I may be wrong, but I do not think Vito would have wanted Michael to be involved in the middle of a war with the other families. Vito had made it clear earlier in the film that he wanted Michael to have much better things in life.
@@antonioacevedo5200 he did. That's why he cried when Michael saved him at the hospital. He knew how the life worked, and that there was no turning back. By the time Michael returned from Sicily, he was Vito's heir apparent, for better or for worse.
The have a director's cut version that they show in my city once a years with all three movies in succession. They include all deleted scenes. I watch them every year. I never get tired of watching the Godfather movies.
And again and again, I learn this story, movie...whatever,...thank you for this! My only wish is that I can see the "full" movie someday....whatever it may cost..
Love how clemenza stops and has a meal while the Rocco and Paul are waiting
Rocco move over to the other side. You're blocking the rear view mirror. Oh yeah I was just trying to get a good view of the back your head for later. What? Oh nothing.
The guy who played Carlo showed up in the small town I live in last year as a crooner who sang to people sitting in booths eating sundaes and turkey clubs... This being one of my all time favorite movies, seeing him denigrate the film in this fashion, it's left me with a sick feeling every time I watch it. All the guy who plays Carlo said is that he should've gotten the role of Sonny... Thanks for posting this! Even Carlo the schmuck can't ruin something that's pure genius.
I once saw a guy who looked just like Luca Brasi, and I saw him of all places at a wedding.
+lindsey lefrois The guy that played Luca was involved with the Mafia in real life. There's a movie called the Sinatra club that's based on a former mobsters book. He has a scene in the movie about the guys part in the Godfather movie.
+Shirley D Luca also came to my cousin's wedding, as a friend of someone on the bride's side I believe. He was out on the dance floor near the end of the evening looking really happy.
+Jim B. Scum bag tht has made it in life
+Michael Horta you can make it in life and still be a scum bag;)
desertdispatch Yeah but i didnt not say other wise so ur comment is irrelevant
This is truly a master piece of cinema & the book is absolutely great the deleted scenes are excellent!
I know time was a huge factor in making these movies, but the scene with Michael waking up and asking about Appalonia, after her death, would have been great to have been left in. I always wondered how he felt because it was skipped over so quickly.
gina you make a great point, and it is a great scene, but I prefer the final version without it. We don’t see Michael after Appalonia for a long time. He is in America, and has been for a long time, but he’s different. He’s cruel, calculated, and rarely shows any emotion or reaction to anything. He becomes a true don. The tragedy hardened him, and ultimately made him a monster. It’s only in part 3, when he has regrets, that his mind goes to Appalonia and we see how much it still affects him after so many years. I think this change is much more impactful without seeing him grieve.
But what was Michael waking up from?? Was he supposed to have been injured from the car explosion? The movie makes it appear that he was a fairly safe distance from the car when it exploded
Apollonia
@@richardbullis6263 Thank you for the correction.
In my honest opinion and while I respect yours, I will kindly disagree. I mean, the whole rest of the movie from that point makes it more than clear how it affected Michael and how it made him way more cold/calculated.
Exactly! And without the first scene, the "Leave the gun, take the cannoli" quote is even more memorable.
You're missing a part right before the last scene where Vito tells Michael (referring to Al Neri) "Looks like you found your Luca Brassi"
2:42 The scene with the flag-waving Communist parade going to Portella Della Ginestra is actually a nod to a true important event in the history of post-war Sicily and the Mafia.
To understand more about it you'll have to read Mario Puzo other novel "The Sicilian" or, better, watch Francesco Rosi's wonderful docudrama "Salvatore Giuliano".
Why did they delete 7:54-9:12, those were epic scenes? Pacino and Brando together in a scene should never be deleted...
there was a scene not in the deleted scenes in a book Michael running around in the street with a tommy gun with blood all over his suit
Vito at the very end had my dying.
Alpha 119 I prefer it with Michael NOT revealing to Vito’s face that he’s breaking the peace. It kind of tells the audience the ending, lol, plus in the book, it was unspoken and implied that Vito knew Michael would do this when Vito made the peace to begin with. Even though Vito makes the pledge on his grandchildren’s souls, he knows the peace will be broken when Michael takes revenge and assumes all power. It shows how brutal and cunning Vito was even in his old age. It’s better left unsaid, only in my opinion.
They did the right thing to delete this scene because it gives the ending away. It would have made the Baptism scene, the climax, too predictable.
@@lwmson I agree. That baptism scene is Iconic because of how shocking it was to see all the threats to the Corleone's being offed in one sequence. And the way it was juxtaposed with the baptism was amazing too.
I have a 3 vhs set called the complete epic. It runs from Vito being a child till Michael becoming boss. Runs in chronological order. It's amazing and a few of these scenes are in it.
It’s not the act of a friend to withhold scenes, Coppola surely could’ve charged more for the scenes, after all, we are not communists
I swear...Carlo had to be the STUPIDEST character in film history lol Not only did he verbally disrespect the daughter of the Don but routinely BEAT!?! Shiiiit lol
Well it was all a set up to kill Sonny and he had the backing of Barzini.
Strangely, he would have continued to get away with it, because of the "never interfere in a married couple's affairs" credo, reinforced by both Mama and Don Vito Corleone at separate points in the film. I'm pretty sure had Connie ever said, kill him, he'd have been fish food in nothing flat. As we know, Sonny was set up by the fighting, but would have killed Carlo, instead of just kicking his ass in the street, had his mother and father not been alive. In the end, I think Michael avenged what he did to both Connie and Sonny. Kind of funny and ironic that Sonny told Connie, "you think I'd make your kid an orphan?" and Michael told Carlo, "you think I'd make my sister a widow?" when both were going to kill him eventually.
1 Bad Jesus I loved it when Sonny whooped his ass!
The book implied that wife-beating was considered nobody's business but the couple involved, and was generally accepted... remember the scene at the dinner table after Carlo tells Connie to shut up, and Sonny said "dont you ever tell her to shut up!", and Mamma Corleone tells Sonny "don't interfere"?
Il never forgive the bastard for getting Sonny killed. Ever.
The dialog between Paulie and Clemenza really makes this scene, starting at 2:16 really makes that scene. Clemenza played it out so Paulie had no suspicions that they were going to whack him. That is a scene they should have left in!
"I told you this wouldn't escape his eye" awesome.
There are some scenes we can't refuse.
They should have kept Mike sick in bed in. Apollonia’s death changed his entire being. She was his character arch. He loved Kay but Apollonia was the first girl he ever loved. Her death caused him to know what was real in his life. He loved her and he lost her. It changed him no matter if he went back to Kay. She changed him.
Richard Castellano - highest paid actor on the movie - and walked on part II so they had to have him die "from a heart attack"
Godfather is a movie that can never be remade and we the people living in 21st century are lucky to see deleted scenes so easily.
I think the undertaker telling his wife that he was afraid of the other families coming after him because he was involved with the Corleone's was very telling.
Christ, what filmaking!!! Even the stuff on the floor screams OSCAR!!!
Thats where he got the Canollis!!!!
The only useless scene is Fabrizzio singing. Glad that was cut. The rest should have been left in.
i am glad the film turned out the way it did
"It IS a sign of weakness"; that's a very good line, a shame it was cut . . .
Tom Hagan! Smarter than they gave him credit for
I don't think they ever questioned Tom's intelligence. I think they just wanted him relatively clean. Fredo on the other hand, they knew he was an idiot
Those last two scenes were incredible, both made me want to see more. I think that they should have been left in. Obviously, Michael was going to want revenge for Sonny's death and for what happened in Sicily. It wouldn't have hurt the film to have him reveal his intentions n a conversation with his father.
Thanks Jesus these ones were deleted! Except Tom Hagen's scene, of course. 👌
8:30 the great Brando could convey so much with so little effort
And he definitely did not do it for the money because he hardly got paid anything.
Those phone calls to Sonny, might have added about 100 lbs. to Pete.
Lol I wish they would've left the part where Clemenza acts like he's going to call Sonny and just sits down and eats instead.
There's another deleted scene that shows Fabrizio running a pizza place in Buffalo, NY, closing up for the night, and then getting blown up when he starts his car to go home.
That is a VERY germane scene and should have been left in the film as it
demonstrated that sooner or later....
That one should definitely have made it into the final cut. Maybe they could still splice some of these gems in.
The tradition of the American gangster film is that every SOB gets what's coming to him (or her) in the final reel. "The Godfather" in particular made a big climax of tying up the loose ends, but the rat Fabrizio was one they missed.
Daniel Toma If you watch the God father Epic, the scene you described is there.
Daniel Toma the scene where Fabriso was closing up his Pizza parlor for the night & then he gets into his car to start to go home was in the Godfather II, Michael got vengeance on Fabriso for killing his first wife Appolonia.
Is that where Buffalo mozzarella comes from?
It's good seeing them again.
I think the restaurant Clemenza ate at was Luna's in Little Italy. They used to make great Tripe and thee best garlic bread.
Added to bucket list...
Yes I always thought it was Luna's great stuffed artichokes and veal and peppers.
It's easy to see why some of these were cut; the Godfather is remarkably well-paced and as fun as these little bits with Clemenza in the car or some shots in Sicily are, they'd add up to slow the film down. But those scenes with Michael in bed, Connie and Carlo, and the conversation between Vito and Michael were excellent and I wish they were left in. We never see much of Michael's relationship with his father, and it's fascinating to watch Pacino and Brando work off one another.
Tom Was smart as Fuck 2 LOL!!! him and Micheal took after Vito in there thinking.
Fabrizzio! Lol. How many people have spent a college semester overseas or stayed with a host family abroad and run into a "Fabrizzio" asking "Take me back to America with you!" Most annoying thing to deal with.
Yes that has happened to me hundreds...no... thousands of times. So annoying.
Lol I know right people not fortunate to live in the united states wanting to live there. Arseholes.
Take me to the america!
99.99% of the time I see deleted scenes, I'm glad they were deleted. These are no exception.
Agreed. They really didn't add anything of value to the movie. Adding these boring scenes would've only lengthened the movie, w/o any realy purpose. The Godfather is a masterpiece, as is. Every scene is a work of art. It's perfect. To add or subtract anything, would only spoil it.
HELL NO! The scene with Michael telling Don Tomassino to get Fabrizio...so moving.
There's a good one from GF2 where the young Hyman Roth is introduced to Vito.
These deleted scenes are the truth! Wow! Just freaking wow!
"I'll be the best man you can got"
2:15 Paulie is asking about the last place they saw because if it's going to be used, that's information he can sell to Sollozzo...he thinks.
if you can't tell which Godfather 1,2 or 3 these scenes these are deleted from you haven't followed any of them.
“I’ll be the best man you can got”
I love these deleted scenes i wish they we're on dvd
I would have loved to see the scene where Vito dies, according to the book, with the hands of the son he loved the most (Michael) on his own hands, Thank you for posting the video:)
The scene with Clemenza and Rocco should've stayed in the movie cause it showed Rocco proving himself to Clemenza and the family. I only wish Coppolla added more of the storylines of Rocco and Al Neri joining the family into the Godfather. In the book Al Neri was a badass and that should've been added to the movie
I agree, Rocco and All become a huge part of the family, but are basically just bit parts in the films..I wish they would do a Godfather movie that begins where the 2nd film left off, and portray the years between Godfathers 2 & 3...post Cuba, the Kennedy assassinations, and you can cut back and forth to the prohibition era, when Vito was rising in power... But most of all, they need to focus on Tom Hagan...obviously he was growing very concerned and disillusioned with the whole situation...and the way he was just brushed off with Godfather 3 was my biggest disappointment...I don't understand why Coppola didn't think he was worth as much as Dianne Keaton!
+Mikeymike301 In the book, Neri had in fact been a rank-and-file cop before being kicked off the police force for killing a drug user during an arrest (i.e., excessive force).
+lindsey lefrois Yeah, I remember this, and it was highly unusual for anyone who was a cop, or who EVEN has a cop in their family to ever be made. Neri was a special case.
+iamhim It happened in "The Valachi Papers". An associate of Valachi's wanted to get "made" but had a brother who was a cop, which made getting "made" impossible for that particular guy. Later on, a boss (i.e., a "family" boss) got the guy into his family, being powerful enough as a boss to get around that rule. That aside, "The Godfather" was full of things that were very unlikely or just never could happen.
lindsey lefrois it could be that Neri was based on the guy you mentioned... I think ALOT of the characters were based on real life mobsters and associates... Mo Green = Bugsy Siegel, Hyman Roth = Meyer Lansky, I think the Rasato Brothers were based on "Crazy Joe" and Albert "Kid Blast" Gallo (check out Bob Dylan's song "Joey"), and of course there's Johnny Fontane = Frank Sinatra
I think he was able to stand but not walk. Remember "The Godfather" (part one) in the scene where Tomasino got out of the car to talk to Michael ("Michael, why are you so far from the house?") He stood but he didn't walk. He held onto the car door.
These are beautiful scenes. Wrong deleting these scenes
@rossharmonics I agree 100%...all of these deleted scenes make me wish the movie was 4 hrs long. I'd love to see a "new-release" on DVD or even in the theaters again that have all of these old scenes restored back into the picture. Again, thanks for posting this.
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I agree, that scene should not have been deleted. It showed Michael's soft side. He truly loved Apollonia. It was very emotional to me. I don't think he loved Kay that way.
Al Pacino: “Michael loved Kay when he met her and he loved her throughout his life and he loves her to this day. He not only loves her but also admires her.”
Kay is Michael’s true love. Even Michael says that to Kay in Sicily. Please go watch the movies first.
The Don and Michael had the Best Father/Son Relationship ever on Screen. You never saw him have these One On One Conversations with Sonny or Fredo. He saw in Michael a form of Smartness that the others didn't have.
Nii Po he says "Apollonia?" - "dead" - "Fabrizio... find Fabrizio! Find him!"
italianbruizer GET ME Fabrizio. He wanted his scalp!
Ah, it was still a deleted scene nonetheless, it was funny too. And the one with them visiting Genco in the hospital, the part where Vito asks Michael what the ribbons are on his uniform(Christmas decorations lol).
Tom Hagan was smart a s whip! Great casting!
Casting was perfect. There was not one person in this movie that was out of place. This is the best movie made in the 20th century full stop.
For everyone's general info, almost all the "deleted scenes found here and the rest oF UA-cam WERE INCLUDED BACK INTO THE RELEASE OF "The Godfather, The Complete Epic." The film is over 7 hours and takes the flashbacks of II and puts them in chronological order along with deleted scenes from both I and II. If you look hard enough, you can still obtain copies of the epic. I highly recommend it.
@TheCfh4life When I read the book, I thought the scene with Genco would have been terrific. The way Coppola captured it in the deleted scence makes you regret the movie wasn't four hours long. There are so many movies that drag. Each film in the Godfather trilogy is paced so well from beginning to end. I also love the scenes with Sonny from the time he gets the new about his father being shot to the scence where he asks Michael whether it was Pauli or Clemenza who set him up.
Viewing these makes me hope more than ever The Godfather Legacy will be released on DVD or BluRay someday soon!
Remastered! Absolutely!
There are just so many interesting little side stories that wound up on the cutting room floor. In Part Two (which is a third of the way in Godfather Legacy) Michael gets revenge for the death of his Sicilian wife! I was so happy to see he didn't forget about her, which is how it looked in the "Classic" versions!
But marlon brando is dead.
Keep in mind that was subsequent to his dispatching of Solazzo and McCloskey.
That’s why the godfather was a masterpiece.....edit edit and then edit......some scenes were like watching paint dry
Some of these are better than some they left in it
The man standing over the bed is "Don" Tomasino. Michael was under his protection while living in Sicily. The other people are probably just his household servants.
1:11
Clemenza: you wait here I call sonny..
.. clemenza eats like a boss
Most of this SHOULD have been cut out. But much was left out that was never created. The only 2 scenes that were awesome here were when Michael told the Don "You gave your word, I didnt give mine." That should have never been cut. The scene with carlo in the shower added nothing and neither did the babbling old woman, or the woman spraying water.The bodyguard was annoying with the "take me to america' whining and singing a song. Maybe they could have left in the scene about clemenza talking about wooden bumpers but only real addicts like us would appreciate small talk like that. The rest of the stuff was right to cut. In fact the part where michael talked to the don about "its a sign of weakness", that should have been expanded on for at least a few minutes.That was the 2nd awesome scene! Wow, we all never realized that the only thing coppolla gave us there was when the Don talked abouut how hes drinking too much wine and Michael said "its good for you pop." Then a couple of babbling sentences about "I never wanted this for you..." and the entire shift of power to michael was either deleted or never put in the movie. Do all of you realize what we just discovered? This was the weakness of the movie. They should have had michael at least reminiscing about it in godfather. 2 but that whole shift of power from the Don to Michael needed at least 10 min even if the movie was already too long. I always felt instinctively since i saw the movie in the theatres that as brilliant as this movie was, it could have been better.Too many things cut out. I say there were much more deleted scenes than this, in fact i saw then a few yrs ago on a television special. Its almost an hour of deleted scenes! Also..the way they got to Carlo to betray the don could have been an incredible moment in the picture. Godfather 3 should have been made to fill in all these missing pieces instead of duvall backing out of the damn movie. godfather 3 really should have connected the pieces. it could have opened up with someone saying...."Uncle mike, what was it like when you first started working for grandpa".....and just continue from there. we didnt need this immobilari and the pope drama. And also the deleted scene here where tom said "Why am i being left out." That could be a 15 min scene in itself. and the fact that the godfather said almost nothing about that is rediculous. the only thing they cut out was what we saw here with the don saying "see i knew this wouldnt escape his eyes." Thats all they planned to have don corleone say about that matter? I guess we Godfather addicts would love to see francis start from scratch and make it all over again.. we'd all be thrilled to leave out godfather 3 and have him make 2 more like the 1st 2. In fact, its sad that in all these years since both godfathers were made, you can count on one hand the amount of great gangster pics that were made. WTF happened to hollywood?
I think that it was wise to edit out the entire scene with Michael and his dad talking in the garden upon Michael's return home. When we hear him say, "You gave your word; I didn't give mine... I take full responsibility," that gives the climax of the movie away. We would have known the direction that Mike was going in and it would have become too predictable. After all, what makes The Godfather so compelling and mesmerizing is watching Michael transition from being a "nice college boy" into the callous Mafia don.
I think 'Road to perdition' and 'Hoodlum' were two good ones.
The scene from Woltz's mansion, the young teen girl that he'd had the party for on-set running out distraught, a prisoner of his foul lusts. And abetted by the same woman from the movie lot, (her mother? the quintessential Hollywood mom?). that was what Tom Hagen reported, and why the enforcer they sent decapitated Khartoum.
Neill Augustine yeah that was left out too.
Not only that but also Woltz not agreeing to the families terms.
Yeah she was the mom and im pretty sure she was supposed to be 11, in the book tom pointed that out.
One scene they left out that was included in the long version shown on tv is the scene with the undertaker and his wife right after The Don calls him and asks him if he's now ready to return the favor for his Don. He was quarreling with his wife not realizing that the favor he was going to be asked was to clean up the "massacred" body of Sonny and make it presentable for viewing by his mother.
Bonasera didnt know what he wanted. He assumed he would be told to get rid of the body of someone the Don had killed, it was only when he told him that he realised what he wanted
Should release this movie with the deleted scenes.
Why in the fucking hell do they how to remove the scene where Michael gains consciousness after the car explosion which killed Apollonia? Doesn't this scene shows how sad and vengeant Michael was?
we see the aftereffects, so we don't really need to see this scene, because we can imagine it on our own. to see micheal being so cold with kay after the explosion scene is more shocking that way. you get the cardinal information you need: michael has irreversibly changed. coppola went for a more slick storytelling, which involves the intelligence and the imagination of the viewer.
wish they had subtitles for the Sicily scenes.
someone gave a brief translation above, in case you haven't known lol
I love when Rocco says to Clemenza,"I understand Mr. Clemenza"
Good call on leaving out the part where Clemenza told the guy "You're gonna make your bones on Paulie." I didn't see it coming when Clemenza had him pull over. I was like "Oh fuck!"
Sonny already put out the hit
The novel stresses how much Clemenza loves his car.
Also in part 2 for some reason they deleted the scene where De Niro is in sicily and he kills 2 of don Ciccio's henchmen 1 lying in his bed and another on a boat in the middle of a lake. They should of included these scenes in the 2nd film.
yeah, he really 'whacked ' the guy in the boat w/ that huge paddle.the last words he heard were
''I'm Vito Andollini''.
Don Ciccio was right. Not for wanting to murder a 9 year old, but about that boy growing into a strong man who would take his revenge. The self-fulfilling prophecy of a coward.
Wish they would put all deleted scenes back into the movie and re -release it. It would probably be a 6 hour movie but it still would be great
THE BEST.
You know what's sad? "" Life is a True Story""
Tom talks about Rocco's secret regime, while Al stands behind michael. This means that Al know's of rocco secret regime???
Al already made his bones. he was privvy to alot of the families buisness.
Al was most underrated character in the movie, played superbly by Richard Bright
I never knew Michael talked to his father about not keeping the peace, they definitely should have kept that scene
8:30 good scene shouldve stayed in the movie it would've helped to make the movie more sense with these scenes added in. But it's like Vito felt fearful talking about his young life in Sicily of the town of Corleone. Where he remembers seeing his mother being shot and killed and him not knowing what to do running away going to America like he wasn't to open about it though, but he tried to preserve a good life for Michael his family but they all made poor choices in life.
this movie is so fucking silence but a powerful meaning!!!!
If you've read the book, Michael does in fact go after fabrizo (sp?) for Apollonia. There's a whole shpeal about his tattoo on his chest which is how they identify him, and they find him in a pizzeria in new York and kill him on the spot.
Every time I see a Godfather clip I get hungry
Especially the Clements scenes. Not that I'm slim and trim, but if I'd be as big as Clemenza if I ate during or after those Clemenza scenes.
April 29th at Radio City music hall both Godfather movies and a panel of the actors after. Coppola , Pacino , Duvall , Shire, Cann, Keaton all will be there and so will I . can't wait !!!
Got the job and I have been trying to get a hold of the money
Need to get some more information from the boss
Deleting these scenes helped much for the godfather to become what it is. Breaking up the storyline like this makes the viewer think a bit more about what happens and become part of the story.
This is not complete.
Missing a few, including the scenes with Sonny speaking to Mama Corleone right after the Don is shot, and him going to the office and calling for more button men.
Every scene is superb and I would suggest a couple should have been essential.
Saga has/had removed scene with undertaker Buonasera hastily dressing to meet Don Corleone after Tom has called him "...now you know you owe your Don a service, he has no doubt you will repay it....". Worries and frets to his wife as she helps him dress wondering what will be asked of him, of course he has no idea what has happened to Sonny, then in the scene following we all know with the shot from the elevator descending to the basement of his funeral parlor, the Don weeps. Chilling! CW
It strikes me as being a bit of a risk at 5:18 for Michael to say that he is the son of Vito Andolini - as his father had admitted to having changed his name to Corleone (albeit in GF2)
Wasn't young Vito's name changed without his participation by the screening staff at Ellis Island?