The Godfather : THE COMPLETE EPIC 1901 - 1959
PARTS 1 & 2 ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY!
Uncut & Uncensored (Discs 1-3) + EXTRAS (Disc 4)!
Often referred to as: “The Godfather Saga” &/or “The Godfather : A Novel For Television” — this combines “The Godfather” and “The Godfather : Part II” into an epic length movie. All scenes have been rearranged in chronological order. Originally presented in 1977 as a miniseries for network TV distribution, this project by Francis Ford Coppola was to raise funds at the time of its release for his next film “Apocalypse Now” (1979).
Format Info: DVD: Region 1 (USA & Canada) NTSC
“The Complete Epic” includes numerous extra scenes!
THE GODFATHER PART I ADDITIONAL SCENES:
•After Vito agrees to help Amerigo Bonasera avenge the beating of his daughter, Vito whistles to Sonny & asks if he was paying attention. Sonny confirms that he was.
•After Vito tells Hagen to go to California, Hagen tells him that the hospital called & the dying Genco Abbandando, Vito's previous consigliere, will not last the night. Vito tells Sonny to bring all his sons (including Michael & Johnny) to pay their respects to Genco & for Fredo to drive the big car.
•After Connie's wedding reception, Vito, his sons, & Johnny Fontane go to the hospital to visit Genco, where Vito calls Michael's military decorations "Christmas ribbons" & tells him that he has plans for him after he leaves the military & finishes school. Genco asks that Vito stay with him & scare away death to which Vito says that he has no such power. After a short conversation, Genco becomes weak, & Vito motions for his sons to leave the room, himself staying behind while Genco dies.
•Before Hagen & Jack Woltz start talking, Woltz holds a birthday party for a young actress named Janie, & presents her with a pony as a gift. Present at the gathering are the girl's mother & several others involved with her current film. After Woltz kicks Tom out after dinner, he walks to the exit, looks up, & sees Janie, crying at the top of the staircase, being retrieved by her mother; the implication is that Woltz raped her.
•There is additional footage of Tom, Sonny & Vito discussing the Woltz situation before the horse head scene. Vito asks if Woltz is "so tough", to which Tom responds, "You mean is he a Sicilian? Forget about it." Vito then asks if the story between Woltz & Janie is true, & calls Woltz's pedophilia an "infamia". Vito tells Tom to summon Luca Brasi to "see if we can find a way to reason with this Mr. Jack Woltz."
•Michael & Kay are in a New York hotel bed, getting a wake-up call at 3 p.m. They are supposed to go to the Corleone residence, but Michael does not want to go yet. He calls the mansion, & Kay pretends to be the long-distance operator, calling collect for "Mr. Michael Corleone". Tom "accepts" the charges, & Michael tells Hagen that they're "stuck in New Hampshire", where Kay's family lives. After Tom hangs up, they giggle about their trick on Tom, & roll onto the floor between the beds they have pushed together. This scene occurs before Fredo gets the car for Vito.
•There is some short extra footage of Luca Brasi walking through the hotel hallways before meeting with the Tattaglias. He sees a neon sign turn off, which signals him it is OK to enter the bar.
•After the Don is shot, Sonny gets a phone call from a detective informing him about his father's condition. Sonny then tries to call Tom, but his wife Theresa says he is not home.
•After Sonny gets the call from Virgil Sollozzo informing him that Tom Hagen has been abducted, he goes to tell his mother that Vito has been shot. He then calls Sal Tessio & tells him to bring fifty of his men over. He tries to call Luca Brasi, but he does not answer, as Tattaglia has killed him.
•There is some short extra footage of Michael in the car arriving at the mall & being cleared to enter by the guards.
•After Michael meets Peter Clemenza, he asks Hagen's wife Theresa how he is. The two of them go in to see Sonny (who is with Tessio). After discussing how Paulie Gatto, not Clemenza, was the traitor, Hagen enters the room.
•Before Clemenza leaves the house with Paulie, he & Rocco Lampone talk about Clemenza's car with the wooden bumpers. Clemenza gives Rocco the gun he is to use to "make his bones" by killing Gatto.
•After they leave Clemenza's driveway, they make a stop "to call Sonny". Clemenza eats a meal & buys cannoli while Lampone & Gatto wait in the car.
•In Sicily, after Michael tells Don Tommasino that they are going to Corleone, Michael & his bodyguards see a procession of Communists marching through the hills. When asked, Fabrizio tells they are going to Portella della Ginestra.
•When Michael is hiding in Sicily, there is a scene in which his bodyguard Fabrizio asks him about New York, & whether it is true that he is the son of a Mafia boss. Fabrizio then asks Michael if he could be his bodyguard in America. This scene happens just before they meet Apollonia.
•There is some short extra footage of Michael & bodyguards walking through Corleone, before he says "Where have all the men gone?"
•Before they are on the road as the G.I.s pass by, Michael visits his father's birthplace & he asks a woman if there are any family/friends of the Andolini family around. She says they have all left & gone overseas.
•After Connie hangs up the phone following a fight with her husband Carlo Rizzi, she walks into the bathroom where Carlo is showering. She confronts him about the "whore"; he ignores the comment & tells her to make him dinner. The subsequent footage is slightly tailored to fit the standard scene, & a couple of extra lines are added where they were not before.
•After Hagen makes the call to Bonasera following Sonny's murder, Bonasera dresses & contemplates what task Vito is going to ask him to do.
•After Apollonia is killed in the explosion, there is a short scene of Michael, in shock & in bed, muttering to Tommasino and Apollonia's mother: "Apollonia..?" / Tommasino: "Dead." / Michael: "Fabrizio..? Get me Fabrizio..."
•Following the meeting of the 5 Families Vito & Michael discuss the family's next move & whether or not Michael will break the peace while in the family garden.
•Before Hagen asks Michael why he is being replaced as consigliere, there is some short extra footage. There is also some short extra footage after Michael says "You're out, Tom." These two short scenes talk about Al Neri.
THE GODFATHER PART II ADDITIONAL SCENES:
•After Vito's brother Paolo is shot, two of Don Ciccio's thugs arrive at the Andolini home looking for Vito. His mother calls Vito a "Little Baccala, not worth worrying about".
•When Vito & Genco go backstage at the theater, there is additional footage before & after the scene where Don Fanucci grabs a young girl. Fanucci tells the theater owner that he should have more Sicilian songs & begins to sing.
•There is a scene before Vito gets fired from Abbandando's Grosseria: While Vito is delivering groceries, he sees three punks over on 9th Street assaulting Fanucci, & they cut his throat "from ear to ear...to scare him". Genco & Vito discuss how much power Fanucci actually has.
•There is added footage at the beginning of the scene where young Vito & Clemenza are drinking coffee, talking about the carpet Vito is to steal.
•After the new carpet is installed, Vito, Clemenza, & Tessio meet up with a gunsmith, Augustino Coppola, & his young son, Carmine Coppola. This is where Clemenza sells his guns.
•We then see young Clemenza hawking stolen dresses door-to-door for $5 a piece. He makes one married woman an offer (two for one), & presumably has sex with her. Clemenza tells Vito to bring the rest of the dresses to Dadine's Store, where Dadine will turn it over to the wholesaler. While they are driving, Fanucci hops aboard Vito's truck.
•There is added footage at the end of Fanucci's talk with Vito in the truck.
•There is added footage at the beginning of the scene where Vito, Clemenza and Tessio are eating spaghetti at Vito's house discussing how to pay Fanucci.
•There is added footage at the beginning of Vito's meeting with Signora Colombo.
•There is added footage during Vito's talk with Signor Roberto on the street.
•There is added footage before we see Signor Roberto at Vito's office. He is seen entering through the garage area where he carefully asks for "Don Vito Corleone".
•After Signor Roberto lowers Signora Colombo's rent, Vito sees Clemenza, who has found "a kid good with cars", to fix the truck. His name is Hyman Suchowsky, but Clemenza calls him "Johnny Lips". Vito suggests that Suchowsky change his name; Suchowsky then begins calling himself Hyman Roth.
•In a trip back to Sicily, there is additional footage of Vito's family exiting the train & walking with a small band.
•While in Sicily, Vito finds & kills two of Don Ciccio's retainers (Mosca and Strollo) before he goes with Tommasino to kill Don Ciccio.
•There is a short scene of Vito & his family being driven to Tommasino's vineyard.
•There is additional footage of Vito & his family at the train station leaving Sicily.
•There is additional footage of the train leaving Sicily.
•There are extra scenes of people dancing at the communion party & of the conductor, along with Tom Hagen & his family having their picture taken. Following this there is a scene of Fredo & his wife Deanna in the parking lot. Deanna is already drunk & Fredo does not want Michael to see her that way.
•There is added footage leading up to Frank Pentangeli drinking from the garden hose in which he asks a waiter for a glass of wine or a beer.
•At the communion party, Sonny's daughter, Francesca, comes to see Michael for his blessing to marry Gardner Shaw, of whom Michael approves.
•There is a scene (after Michael's meeting Francesca & Gardner Shaw) in which Al Neri is talking to Michael (with Hagen & Lampone) & they are looking at pictures of Fabrizio. They explain that he was brought over illegally from Sicily by Don Barzini.
•There is added footage of singing on the grandstand, Rocco berating his men in the parking lot & people jumping off the pier into the water . We also see Anthony walking up to the button men, & stopping as Kay calls after him.
•There is added footage of Kay talking to Pentangeli following the scene when Pentangelli knocks over the wine glass.
•After the family sits down to eat, we see Pentangeli sitting & drinking wine with Anthony. He gives Anthony a $100 bill.
•There is footage of Al Neri visiting Meyer Klingman, the owner of the gambling license for Michael's new hotel, at the casino, & asking him to leave. Klingman resists, so Neri chases him through the casino into a closed auditorium, which is rehearsing for a cabaret, until Neri threatens him with a heavy chair, at which point Klingman finally capitulates & leaves the hotel. Neri then sits down in the seats & signals for the performers to go on with their rehearsal.
•Following the scene in which Klingman capitulates, we see Fabrizio ("Fred Vincent"), leaving his pizzeria in Buffalo, NY, & starting his car, at which point a previously planted car bomb explodes. He stumbles out of the car, then dies. This was Michael's vengeance upon Fabrizio for killing Apollonia.
•An alternate version of the scene when Michael goes to visit Anthony in his room. The assassination attempt on Michael has not happened yet & Anthony tells Michael about his present, Michael is surprised by this, & tells Anthony he'll see it when he goes to bed. Michael is also seen exiting Anthony's room. This version of the scene is actually the original version, as it doesn't have the dubbed over dialogue from the theatrical release.
DISC 4: EXTRAS (Quality varies by source material):
•1974 Network TV Intro
•Coppola & Puzo - Screenwriting
•Francis Ford Coppola’s Notebook
•Gordon Willis - Cinematography
•On Location
•Storyboards - The Godfather Pt 3
•The Godfather & The Mob (2006)
•The Godfather 1.5: A Day In Little Italy (1973-74 short fan film)
•The Godfather: Behind The Scenes (1971)
•The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
•The Godfather Pt 1 : Trailer
•The Godfather Pt 2: Trailer
•The Godfather Pt 2: Best Director, 1974
•The Godfather Pt 2: Best Picture, 1974
•The Godfather Pt 3: Trailer
•Godfather Pt 1: Best Picture, 1972
•Godfather Pt 1: Best Screenplay, 1972
*Includes (4) glossy sepia colored custom DVD discs.*
*Feature Film has a runtime of 7 hrs 3 mins (423 min)*
*EXTRAS disc contains a menu screen for navigation*