The Godfather教父 1972 Movie Script

PAULIE hustles, gets a glass of icy black wine, and brings it to him.

PAULIE:

You look terrif on the floor!

CLEMENZA:

What are you, a dance judge? Go do your job; take a walk around the neighborhood... see everything is okay.

PAULIE nods and leaves; CLEMENZA takes a breath, and leaps back into the dance.

The MEN walk down another row of parked cars. Put another number in the notebook.

TESSIO, a tall, gentle-looking man, dances with a NINE-YEAR- OLD GIRL, her little black party shoes planted on his enormous brown shoes.

The MEN move on to other parked cars, when SONNY storms out of the gate, his face flushed with anger, followed by CLEMENZA and PAULIE.

SONNY:

Buddy, this is a private party.

The MAN doesn't answer, but points to the DRIVER of the sedan. SONNY menacingly thrusts his reddened face at him.

The DRIVER merely flips open his wallet to a greed card, without saying a word. SONNY steps back, spits on the ground, turns, and walks away, followed by CLEMENZA, PAULIE, and another TWO MEN. He doesn't say a thing for most of the walk back into the courtyard, and then, muttered to PAULIE.

SONNY:

Goddamn FBI...don't respect nothing.

INT DAY:

DON'S OFFICE (SUMMER 1945) DON CORLEONE sits quietly behind his massive desk in the dark study.

NAZORINE:

...a fine boy from Sicily, captured by the American Army, and sent to New Jersey as a prisoner of war...

DON CORLEONE:

Nazorine, my friend, tell me what I can do.

NAZORINE:

Now that the war is over, Enzo, this boy is being repatriated to Italy. And you see, Godfather... (he wrings his hands, unable to express himself) He...my daughter...they...

DON CORLEONE:

You want him to stay in this country.

NAZORINE:

Godfather, you understand everything.

DON CORLEONE:

Tom, what we need is an Act of Congress to allow Enzo to become a citizen.

NAZORINE:

(impressed) An Act of Congress!

HAGEN:

(nodding) It will cost.

The DON shrugs; such are the way with those things; NAZORINE nods.

NAZORINE:

Is that all? Godfather, thank you... (backing out, enthusiastically) Oh, wait till you see the cake I made for your beautiful daughter!

NAZORINE backs out, all smiles, and nods to the GODFATHER.

DON CORLEONE rises and moves to the Venetian blinds.

HAGEN:

Who do I give this job to?