'The Godfather' cast will forever be linked with their roles—especially the late James Caan, who played Sonny Corleone. 'They called me a wiseguy,' Caan told MarkPSeal in 2009. 'I won Italian of the Year twice in New York, and I’m not Italian.'
—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo's blockbuster. After violent disputes over the casting of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, they tangled with the real-life Mob, which didn't want the movie made at all.
recalls how the clash of Hollywood sharks, Mafia kingpins, and cinematic geniuses shaped a Hollywood masterpiece
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