The Godfather - 1972

No Best in Film blog could be complete without The Godfather. An unmatched cast. An incredible story. Consistently in the top 10 movies of all time.

When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge. Francis Ford Coppola brings Mario Puzo's multigenerational crime saga to life in this Oscar-winning epic that also spawned Best Actor honors for Brando, who refused the prize for political reasons.

The early buzz on the film was so positive that a sequel was planned before the film was finished filming.

With a budget of only 6 million, the film grossed over 245 million worldwide.

The line "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" was selected by the American Film Institute on it's list as one of the top 100 movie quotes, it was at #2 right behind "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind (1939).

According to Francis Ford Coppola, the film took 62 days to shoot.