Director Francis Ford Coppola brings Mario Puzo's multi-generational crime saga to life in this Oscar-winning epic. When an organized crime family patriarch barely survives an attempt on his life, his son Michael convinces his brother Sonny to let him take care of the would-be killers. Amid betrayals and corruption, Michael launches a campaign of bloody revenge that continues through the film's two sequels neither of which is any good. This film, however, is quite good and the only one with a real story that has solid acting, writing and directing. This is one of the few movies Marlon Brando been in in which he actually acts.