The Godfather / Der Pate (1972)
An original 1972 Paramount Pictures German Lobby Card, distributed by Cinema International Corporation, unframed.
Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) takes the face of his youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), playfully in his hands. Michael was the boy he hoped would stay out of the family business.
Their quiet talk in the garden, in which Vito admits he had dreamed of "Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone" and never this, was written late in the production by the uncredited script doctor Robert Towne, and Coppola thanked him from the Oscar stage. Two years later Towne won an Academy Award of his own, for Chinatown. Brando's tenderness here makes the warning that follows, about the traitor who will propose a meeting, all the more chilling. A warm and unusual image for any Godfather collection, issued for the German Der Pate release.
- Year: 1972
- Nationality: German
- Condition: Unframed
- Type: Original German Lobby Card
- Size: 9.5 x 12 inches
- Product Code: T6724
