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JAMES CAAN plays the terrible-tempered eldest brother Sonny in a performance of great force, the perfect foil to Pacino's calculating and withdrawn Michael. Sonny is a character who falls victim to his own passion. The actor playing him could have met the same fate. Caan, however, knows how to make a character broad and boisterous without being overemphatic...
Survival Test. Although Pacino was a long shot who had to overcome both Paramount's skepticism and some big-name competition to win his role (TIME, March 13), no member of the cast has a more appropriate background for the movie. Of mostly Sicilian descent, he was raised in the South Bronx, a place that is less a neighborhood than a survival test. He was a solitary boy who used to hide out for hours atop an advertising billboard and who lived in fantasies spawned by the movies his mother took him to see. (His father, a mason...
...Pacino threw himself into school plays with such fervor that his teachers urged that he be sent to the High School of Performing Arts. There, despite his acting talent, his grades were lackluster. After leaving school at 17, he began what he calls "the lost years, moving from job to job, furnished room to furnished room, always broke." He had started drinking at 13. Now he was drinking more. He lost a job as a movie usher after he prankishly led a line of ticket holders across the street to stand aimlessly in front of a department store. Finally...
...While Pacino's character is the most important of the Godfather's four sons, he remains part of a balanced quartet. In the roles of the other sons-all crucial in varying ways-the movie brings three more actors into the front rank...
...Boston University to the Charles Playhouse to the inevitable stint off-Broadway, where he paid the rent between acting jobs by becoming a photographer. He was also an office messenger at the Esso Building in Rockefeller Center. There one of his fellow messengers was a struggling actor named Al Pacino...