MARIO PUZO'S
Best Selling Novel THE GODFATHER
Director Francis FOrd Coppola "Talks The Godfather"
Francis Ford Coppola
with His Notes He Used
in the Making of
Mario Puzo's GODFATHER
Coppola was So Afraid of ever Losing His Exhaustive
Notebook for the making of his Godfather Film
that he wrote his name and adress in IT
Offering a REWARD to Anyone who Found IT
COPPOLA Writing Screenplay of The GODFATHER
Caffe Trieste
in SAN FRANSISCO
Where Coppola Did Much of His
Script Writing and Research of THE GODFATHER
FRANCIS Points out in the interview that any page that
had this much INK on it was a very important page
for a Scene in the Movie ..
These are the Specific NOTES of The Scene where
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) KILLS both SOLLOZZO
and CAPTAIN McCLUSKEY at the meeting at
the ITALIAN RESTAURANT and Coppola said he made notes
that it was very important for their to be a Mist of Blood
in the AIR after Michale shoots Sollozzo ...
Michael Guns Down Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey
Note: Mist of Blood that Coppola writes as a "Must Have"
in His Godfather Notebook ..
Picture: Captian McCluskey played by Sterling Hayden,
Sollozzo is played by Al Lettieri, and Al Pacino
as Michael Corleone ..
Coppola and Pacino getting ready for the scene ...
Note, Sterling Hayden in background.
The MEETING
Michael, McCluskey, and Sollozzo
PACINO in ACTION
COPPOLA
Flanked by James Caan & Marlon Brando
Al Pacino & John Casale
The Don (Marlon Brando) Tells
Johnnie (Al Martino) That He's Going to
Get Him The Part in The Movie He Want to Be In
James Caan (Sonny Corleone) in background ...
NOTE many have said that the Ficitonal Character Johnnie Fontaine
is supposed to be Frank Sinatra .. Both Puzo and Coppola have denied this,
but we all know the truth. Johnnie Fontaine is Frank Sinatra ..
Frank Sinatra
SUNDAY SAUCE
Pictures of Francis Ford Coppola
at CAFFE TRIEST
North Beach, San Francisco
Origianl Paramount Pictures
Movie Poster
THE GODFATHER
