When Francis Ford Coppola adapted Mario Puzo's bestselling novel "The Godfather" into a major motion picture, he took a pot-boiler novel and spun it into box office gold. It was the first major blockbuster of the 1970s, and one of many classic films that made the decade a revered and fabled time in cinema history. "The Godfather" not only launched Coppola, and actors such as Al Pacino, Robert Duvall and James Caan, but it also resurrected Marlon Brando's career from oblivion. By most accounts, it is considered one of the greatest films ever made, if not the greatest more....
