Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About All Three Godfather Films [Paperback]

Peter Biskind (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1991

Everything you ever wanted to know about all three Godfather movies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Harper Collins; 1st edition (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060965797
• ISBN-13: 978-0060965792
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #765,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Biskind is the author of five previous books, including Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. He is a contributor to Vanity Fair and was formerly the executive editor of Premiere magazine. He lives with his family in Columbia County, New York.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Biskind Falls Short, November 25, 1999

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J. G. Malta "jgeoff.com" (Toms River, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About All Three Godfather Films (Paperback)

The Companion is a nice book with lots of trivia, however many of the facts stated are inaccurate. It's a must-have for the true padrinophile's collection, but for more accurate research, check out The Godfather Legacy by Harlan Lebo (1997), or The Godfather Book by Peter Cowie (1997).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shallow but a lot of fun, September 19, 2001

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Jeffrey Ellis "bored recluse" (Richardson, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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The Godfather Companion is, more or less, a gossipy fanzine done deluxe. That said, its still full of fun bits of trivia about the Godfather trilogy and should be enjoyed by fans of the films (and really, who hasn't sometimes wished they were a Corleone?) Perhaps my favorite sections are the heavily detailed passages dealing with the other actors considered for the roles made famous by Brando, Pacino, Duvall, et al. Some of the alternative possibilities are nicely intriguing (Martin Sheen would have made an effective Tom Hagen though certainly not one with Duvall's moral shadings) while others simply boggle the mind. (Just imagine, this could have been a film starring Ernest Borgnine, David Carradine, and John Saxon!) Also of interest are the extensive listings of scenes and actors cut from the three films and a helpful Corleone Family Tree in the back of the book. This book doesn't attempt to go into any heavy analysis concerning these films (other then to prove that the Godfather's symbol of evil was, for reasons never really explained, the color oarnge) but its still a lot of fun.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you're a fan of the Godfather movies, you need this book!, August 9, 1997

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This review is from: Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About All Three Godfather Films (Paperback)

Meticulously detailed book on the production and events surrounding the making of the three Godfather movies. Absolutely essential for film students and movie buffs. It doesn't go too deep, more along the lines of The Book Of Lists, but it's interesting to see how they were all put together and who was involved