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Barzini heads one of New York's Five Families, and is the second most powerful Mafia don in the country after Vito Corleone.His criminal interests are in narcotics, gambling, and prostitution, and he is looking to expand his empire to Las Vegas to take advantage of the Mafia's lucrative casino rackets.
The Corleone family are fictional characters in both the novels and the films created by Mario Puzo, first appearing in his 1969 novel, The Godfather. They are an organized crime family originating from the Sicilian town of Corleone, and based in New York City. The Corleone family has drawn comparisons with the real-life Genovese and Bonanno ...
This is a list of characters from the film series The Godfather, consisting of The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990), based on Mario Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name, as well as the book series The Godfather consisting of the original, Puzo's The Sicilian (1984), Mark Winegardner's The Godfather Returns (2004) and The Godfather's ...
The war between the Five Families drags on, and Sonny, unable to break the stalemate, orders bloody raids that earn him a legendary reputation. He also begins plotting to take out the rival Mafia bosses. Emilio Barzini, Vito's rival and the power behind Sollozzo, enlists Connie's abusive husband, Carlo Rizzi, to help set a trap. Earlier, Sonny ...
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [ 23 ]
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Kay Adams-Corleone and Connie Corleone (Talia Shire) are the only female characters who are well-represented in The Godfather media. [2] In the opening wedding scene of The Godfather, Kay is the only female character who "speaks more than a few lines, and she only then asks questions", [3] which serve as a means to provide exposition about the male members of the family who dominate the story.
I don't have a copy of the film or novel handy, but I'm fairly certain that the Corleone Family is NOT one of the "Five Families" in The Godfather. In fact, both film and novel contain several references to actions or reactions of the Five Families to the Corleones' moves. MJFiorello 20:29, 16 April 2007 (UTC) Exactly.