The first instalment of what would become Francis Ford Coppola’s epic trilogy chronicling the vicissitudes of the Corleone clan sees patriarch Don Vito navigating an expansion into narcotics and the unexpected ascent of his youngest son Michael. From an inter-family war that erupts on the streets of New York and an attempt to edge in on the lucrative entertainment world of Las Vegas to life in a Sicilian pastoral idyl, the machinations of a complex and far-reaching crime syndicate are never far away in this exemplary mob drama.
