The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, presenting parallel dramas. It grossed between USD 48–88 million worldwide on a USD 13 million budget. The God Father Part III, the final installment in the trilogy, was released in 1990.
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The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, presenting parallel dramas. It grossed between USD 48–88 million worldwide on a USD 13 million budget. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards at the 47th Academy Awards and became the first sequel to win for Best Picture. Both Part II and its predecessor remain highly influential films, especially in the gangster genre, and are considered to be among the greatest films of all time. In 1997, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 32nd-greatest film in American film history and it retained this position 10 years later. In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1993, being deemed \”culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\”. The God Father Part III, the final installment in the trilogy, was released in 1990. It is the second installment in TheGodfather trilogy. The GodFather Part II premiered in New York City on December 12, 1974, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1974. It received divided reviews from critics but its reputation, however, improved rapidly and it soon became the subject of critical re-evaluation. In 1958, during his son’s First Communion party at Lake Tahoe, Michael has a series of meetings in his role as the don of the Corleone crime family. Michael refuses to help defend his territory against the Rosato brothers, who work for Michael’s business partner Hyman Roth.
Michael suspects Roth planned the assassination, but meets him in Miami and feigns ignorance. Michael becomes reluctant after reconsidering the viability of the ongoing Cuban Revolution. Michael learns that his wife Kay has miscarried. In Washington, D.C., a Senate committee on organized crime is investigating Michael. Having survived the earlier attempt on his life, Michael agrees to testify against the Senate committee. He is placed under witness protection and tells Michael that he has disowned Fredo, who he believes had double-crossed him. Michael’s mother Kay is killed in a car accident. Michael is forced to continue protecting his mother while their mother is alive while their father is in prison. The prequel covers the journey of his father, Vito Corleones, from his Sicilian childhood to the founding of his family enterprise in New. York City. In the prequel, Michael and his business partners travel to Havana to discuss their future business prospects under the cooperative government of Fulgencio Batista. On New Year’s Eve, Fredo inadvertently reveals that he knows Roth’s right-hand man, Johnny Ola, having previously claimed that they had never met and Michael realizes that it was Fredo who had betrayed him. On returning to Nevada, Michael tells him that he had helped Roth, but before he can also kill Roth, he is discovered by police and shot dead.
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