30 Hidden Scenes in The Godfather
Following is our collection of The Godfather facts. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of The Godfather film message.


The Godfather Movie Trivia Facts
These trivia from Reddit and other sources can be used as questions with answers in quizzes or games.
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Lenny Montana, who played Luca Brasi in "The Godfather" (1972), was an actual mafia enforcer sent by the Colombo family to oversee the filming. Coppola cast him, but Montana was too nervous about acting with Brando and kept forgetting his lines, which was later included as a character trait.
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- the cat Marlon Brando is holding in the opening scene was a stray found on the Paramount studio lot. Its purring was so loud they had to loop most of Brando's dialogue in post.
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When little Vito arrives at Ellis Island, he is marked with a circled X. Ellis Island immigrants were marked with this if the inspector believed the person had a mental defect.
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. The cat in the opening scene was a stray cat found in the lot of Paramount, and was originally not called to be in the script. However, some dialogues of Brandon were muffled by the purring of the cat and as a result the cat was added to fit the background purring.
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Marlon Brando was originally supposed to reprise his role in the final flashback scene. But due to a financial dispute with the studio, he didn't appear and Francis Ford Coppola rewrote the scene without him.
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Roger Corman is one of the senators in The Godfather 2 (1974).
The Godfather Hidden Facts
Some of the older cars in the film have wooden bumpers. Chrome was used in the war effort during the Second World War, and were still difficult to obtain after the war was over. The cars of the Corleone Family all have chrome bumpers, reflecting their wealth and connections.







Michael is unshaken by the assassination attempt on his father. Enzo is trembling, but Michael is able to start a lighter. The music plays a note of shock, and even Michael doesn't know what to make of it. It foreshadows his natural and eventual decline into the criminal underworld
Vito tells Bonasera he may ask Bonasera to do a service for him in exchange for his request. It turns out Bonasera is a funeral director and he literally performs a service for Sonny when he dies.
. At around 5 or 6 (watch his left eye carefully) seconds in the clip the Chief of Police blinks. Which is a minor but sort of major detail as he was just shot in the head by Michael.
After Michael shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey, he stops wearing button down collars.
There is a moment where Luca Brasi says: "...on the wedding day of your daughter." but it's out of sync as his mouth doesn't move when he supposedly says that. It happens around 2:47 in the video.


In "The Godfather," Hagen orders the final death in the film by adjusting his necktie

Sonny is shot at a toll booth. In Big Daddy (1999), Adam Sandler's character is named Sonny, and he works at a toll booth. (I just noticed this; don't know if it was intentional)

" orange, the color and the fruit, is associated with death, and they appears in scenes when death will soon occur


The Godfather Plot
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of The Godfather. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Crime, Drama |
Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
Stars | Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano |
IMDB score | 9.2 |