Virgil Sollozzo

...agrees, but warns Sollozzo that the Don's fanatically loyal hitman, Luca Brasi, will likely come after Sollozzo. Sollozzo tells Hagen he will handle Brasi, not telling him that he already killed Brasi hours earlier. Just as Hagen is...

In this article: Vito Corleone, Michael Corleone, Sonny Corleone, Don Fanucci, Tom Hagen, Salvatore Tessio, and Luca Brasi

When I was growing up, the only individuals subjected to such searches were criminal suspects -- or Michael Corleone when he meets with Sollozzo and McCluskey in "The Godfather." But here's a news bulletin: Times change. You're in line at...

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...an hour. Shortly before Vito Corleone is shot, Brasi (on Vito Corleone's instructions) intends to draw out rival mobster Virgil Sollozzo and the rest of the Don's enemies. Brasi then meets with Bruno Tattaglia, the son of one of the...

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...the possibility of being killed himself. That December, Hagen is abducted by the Turk and his bodyguards. At an undisclosed location, Sollozzo informs Hagen that Don Corleone has been shot and killed, and tells Hagen to convince Sonny to go...

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...everything is normal; then Michael draws the gun and shoots Sollozzo in the forehead, killing him instantly. He quickly shoots McCluskey in the neck, and then again in the forehead. Virgil Sollozzo is played by voice actor Richard Newman.

In this article: Vito Corleone, Michael Corleone, Tom Hagen, Corleone family, Mario Puzo, Heroin, The Godfather, and Francis Ford Coppola

Pacino, too, expected the boot: "I always felt that I still had to win these people over. " He was convinced "I was out - and then the Sollozzo scene came". They loved his intensity as he takes bloody revenge in that great sequence in the...

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...an honest assessment of him compels the admission that his traditionalism held him back by causing him to stick it out with the sad-sack New Orleans Saints or decline to enter the lucrative narcotics market with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo.

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...him to stick it out with the sad-sack New Orleans Saints or decline to enter the lucrative narcotics market with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo. Cooper Manning as Santino "Sonny" Corleone: As the oldest, he was the natural heir to the throne,...

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Second chance: The restaurant scene in which Michael (Al Pacino) shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey was filmed over two nights; some footage, which was incorrectly processed, looked washed-out. It's now fixed. The Godfather is remembered as a...

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...his peaceful idyll is shattered as multiple gunshots leave him bleeding in the street -- victim of a hit by Mafia rival Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo. By a miracle, he is only badly wounded. Two of his sons, Santino (Sonny) and Michael, and his...

In this article: Tom Hagen, Michael Ledeen, Sollozzo, Vito Corleone, Mafia, The Godfather, Corleone family, Washington, and Francis Ford Coppola