The Godfather: Part 2 (1974)








The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.



Books with substantial mentioning of The Godfather: Part 2

Melvyn Stokes
American History through Hollywood Film, From the Revolution to the 1960s
London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney, 2013

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Lloyd Hughes
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies
London, 2005

Jack Shadoian
Dreams & dead ends, The American gangster film
Oxford; New York, 2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Jack Hunter (editor)
Robert De Niro, Movie Top Ten
1999

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Articles on The Godfather: Part 2

Manohla Dargis, Dark side of the dream, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 8 (August), 1996 pp. 16-19

Richard Combs, Coppola's Family Plot, The Godfather Variations, in: Filmcomment, nr. 2 (March/April), 2002 pp. 38-44

Ian Freer, The family album, in: Empire, nr. 255 (Sept), 2010 pp. 126-132