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The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)

starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

: The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792174905
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792174909
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2001
Running Time: 545 minutes
Sales Rank: 1998
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001



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Features: the godfather: the godfather ii: the godfather ii: each featuring a new full-length directors audio commentary. Plus a three hour extraordinary bonus disc produced especially for the dvd collection. English subtitles and closed captioning. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Run time: 725 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com essential video:
Throughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as The Godfather Saga. The films are our very own Shakespearean cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic tone. Murder, it turned out, was a serious business. The first film remains a towering achievement, brilliantly cast and conceived. The entry of Michael Corleone into the family business, the transition of power from his father, the ruthless dispatch of his enemies--all this is told with an assurance that is breathtaking to behold. And it turned out to be merely prologue; two years later The Godfather, Part II balanced Michael's ever-greater acquisition of power and influence during the fall of Cuba with the story of his father's own youthful rise from immigrant slums. The stakes were higher, the story's construction more elaborate, and the isolated despair at the end wholly earned. (Has there ever been a cinematic performance greater than Al Pacino's Michael, so smart and ambitious, marching through the years into what he knows is his own doom with eyes open and hungry?) The Godfather, Part III was mostly written off as an attempted cash-in, but it is a wholly worthy conclusion, less slow than autumnally patient and almost merciless in the way it brings Michael's past sins crashing down around him even as he tries to redeem himself. --Bruce Reid



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Finally made in time for Christmas
I ordered this collection for a friend for Christmas. I placed the order 12/04/08, it finally showed ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - capolavoro!
Brando, Pacino, De Niro.............il massimo per una trilogia strepitosa! pochi film si possono paragonare ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great classic
Got It as a gift for a friend. It came in fast and she had a Merry Christmas.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A must have for GODFATHER lovers..
A wonderful collection that I gave my husband for his birthday. That along with a book of godfather quotes and ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What can you say? It's The Godfather.
One of the greatest films of all time. And unlike most films, it's sequel lives up to, or exceeds, the original. ... Read More

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