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This is one gangster film that boasts men who make choices, who are more than fun-loving ethnic types. The restriction and discipline of Mafia living are accurately conveyed: Its deadly patronage, by which vows of love for the Don and pledges of unmitigated loyalty result in feudal bonds which can't be forgotten. The code of silence, omerta, which makes the actions of subordinates individually culpable, thus protecting caporegima and dons at the center of the ring. The political and judicial networks which both in Europe and in the U.S. ease black-market activities into "legitimate" areas of influence...
...period in which the book is set (late 1940s and early 1950s), and alter the whole conception of the film. "I saw important ideas in this book that had to do with dynasty and power," he says. "Puzo's screenplay had turned into a slick, contemporary gangster picture of no importance. It wasn't Puzo's fault. He just did what they told him to do." With Puzo's collaboration, Coppola rewrote the script along the broader lines he envisioned. "It was my intention," he says, "to make this an authentic piece of film about gangsters...
...boldness and the ruthlessness to claw their way to the top. But so powerful has the animus against business and commerce become in our culture that no legitimate businessman could possibly serve as the hero of any such story. Only an illegitimate businessman could; which is to say a gangster...
Harvard's third penalty provided B.U.'s third goal and Danby's hattrick. Bob Brown, B.U.'s baby-faced gangster defenseman who leads the Terrier's in scoring, cut loose a murderous slap shot and Danby deflected it home to make...
...earnings of more than $500,000. Trading plugs for the latest dirt, he played the fawning pressagents for all they were worth, banishing the unfavored to his feared "DD [drop dead] list." His underworld contacts occasionally turned up a genuine "skewp." In one instance he announced the slaying of Gangster Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll six hours before it actually happened. In another, acting as a go-between in the surrender of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, he picked up the mobster on one street corner and delivered him to J. Edgar Hoover on another...