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Why The Godfather is still the best gangster film - 50 years on

By Jonathan Dean
The Times·
8 mins to read

The Godfather at 50 - Francis Ford Coppola's mafia epic revolutionised movies, television and Hollywood. The director, his daughter and a mob of admirers talk family, flawed heroes and the future. By Jonathan Dean.

Fifty years ago Francis Ford Coppola was worried. Rightly. The Godfather, the biggest film of his career, was due out and feedback from suits at the studio was poor. "I always heard the picture is too long," he recalls. "That it's boring." Coppola was just 29,

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