‘The Godfather’: Still an offer you can’t refuse
In its 50th-anniversary year, “The Godfather” continues to be celebrated as one of the greatest movies ever made. Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning 1972 film of Mario Puzo’s underworld-family saga gets a Paramount+ run starting Thursday, April 28 ... coinciding with the streaming service’s introduction of “The Offer,” a limited drama series about the very eventful making of the movie.
Marlon Brando earned his second Oscar as Don Vito Corleone, a powerful mobster reluctantly caught up in a brewing gang war, eventually leading him to turn over control to his supposedly genteel son Michael (Al Pacino). The superb cast also includes Robert Duvall, James Caan and Diane Keaton. “The Godfather, Part II” (which, like the first film, won an Oscar for best picture) and “The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone” also are being shown in conjunction with “The Offer.”