Against the better judgment of everyone involved, Paramount accidentally made the ultimate love letter to Italian Americans with The Godfather. Far removed from the days of Howard Hawks’ Scarface — made when gangster movies were censored for supposedly glorifying criminals — the mafia took exception to mob movies for a different reason. They wanted everyone to think the mob was a figment of the FBI’s imagination, out of sight, thusly out of mind.
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