CUT TO: The Corleone Dining Room (6:30pm). Sonny, Clemenza, Tessio and Rocco are sitting around, eating Chinese food while waiting for news about where the Sollozzo meeting will take place. Michael smokes as the others eat. -early evening

According to Scott M. Deitche, author of The Everything Mafia Book, “Asian cuisine was popular with mobsters who grew up in Little Italy, which was located right next to Chinatown”.

Oh, and another pic where you can see the boom microphone. 

“Barzini wants to arrange a meeting. He says we can straighten any of our problems out…” 

‘Michael and Vito walk amongst the expensive tomato plants.’

Sonny, Tom, Michael.

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‘Coppola and Pacino discuss the Sollozzo/McCluskey murder scene.’

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‘Franco Corsaro plays Consigliere Genco Abbandando in a scene that did not appear in the original release of the film.’

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Wow, the joy radiating out of this photo makes me feel like it’s a real wedding.

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“Heh, come over here, kid, learn something. You never know, you might have to cook for 20 guys someday. You see, you start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes, tomato paste, you fry it; ya make sure it doesn’t stick. You get it to a boil; you shove in all your sausage and your meatballs; heh…? And a little bit o’ wine. An’ a little bit o’ sugar, and that’s my trick.” 

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‘Coppola plots out the intensity of the scene in his notebook.’