The Godfather

(paramount) Release Date: March 15, 1972 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Diane Keaton Plot: The epic saga of how a younger son rises to take over the family business, his father\'s paternalistic, but violent and illegal empire.