So In The Godfather Novel Johnny Fontane Is Trying To Produce His Own Movies And A Union Official, Billy

So in The Godfather novel Johnny Fontane is trying to produce his own movies and a Union official, Billy Goff, who is connected to the Corleones, tries to extort 50K from him. Johnny is considering just paying up, instead turns to Tom Hagen, who has been helping him with the whole project. Tom advises him not to pay up, says he'll deal with it and a few days later Tom has the Union official shot dead in his own home.

Vito has just been shot at this point, and is too ill to be consulted so Tom says that he'll talk to Sonny about the situation but that he will be the one who makes the final decision as to what will be done about the Union official so he personally ordered him to be killed.

I like to think Sonny would have been the most fashionable if he had lived in Vegas

One thing that I do wish they'd included from the novel in Godfather 2 was that young Sonny followed his Father following Fanucci and witnessed his Father killing him and that's what resulted in Sonny joining the family business.

I have so many random dvds that I've still to watch and so many old favourites that I haven't seen for years. I might start another blog to encourage me to watch them, track what I'm watching and leave this for solely rambling about The Godfather.

John Cazale, Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro on the set of The Deer Hunter.(1978)