The house isn’t all that remarkable, but it’s large, famous, and presumably in good shape. But the thing is, the price isn’t all that much, for any house in the Manhattan suburbs with that much room in it.
I know, $2.89 million is a lot of money. But if you start looking around NYC for a large house, you will find that it shrinks to just about nothing.
Nice house you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
In the movie, it had gates and a humongous back yard, where Mrs. Balboa got married. It also had a parking lot area in front, where all the cars were parked during the wedding. I don’t see any of that.
Zombie Central.
Didn’t the rival gang shoot up this mansion trying to assassinate Michael Corleone and his wife Annie Hall? Any bullet holes left?
Maybe its just me, but there is no way in Hell I’d live in a famous house like this. Think of all the nutjobs who you’re going to find in your driveway or peeking in your window in the morning.
They had to clean up the property by removing all the bodies buried around the yard and in the basement.
This house was up for sale just a few years ago (2010). I posted a thread on it then...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2637173/posts
Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that, in the first take of their scene together, he flubbed some lines. Francis Ford Coppola liked the genuine nervousness and used it in the final cut. The scenes of Brasi practicing his speech were added later.
Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone "look "like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist; this appliance is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
Although there are many claims of real Mafiosi as cast members Francis Ford Coppola stated in a May 2009 interview with Howard Stern that no organized crime members were cast or used as consultants. Coppola went on to explain there are expectations of reciprocity once one is provided a "favor" by an organized crime member or otherwise involved in a business action with the same. He specifically denied the connection of Gianni Russo to organized crime. The closest Coppola claims to have come to a real gangster during production, at least to his knowledge, was an interaction with Lenny Montana, who played Luca Brasi. Coppola said when he asked if Montana knew how to spin the cylinder of the revolver Montana replied "You kiddin'?"
Gianni Russo used his organized crime connections to secure the role of Carlo Rizzi, going so far as to get a camera crew to film his own audition and send it to the producers. However, Marlon Brando was initially against having Russo, who had never acted before, in the film; this made Russo furious and he went to threaten Brando. However, this reckless act proved to be a blessing in disguise: Brando thought Russo was acting and was convinced he would be good for the role.
The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene was a stray the actor found while on the lot at Paramount, and was not originally called for in the script. So content was the cat that its purring muffled some of Brando's dialogue, and, as a result, most of his lines had to be looped.
At the meeting in the restaurant, Sollozzo speaks to Michael in Sicilian so rapid subtitles could not be used. He begins with: "I am sorry. What happened to your father was business. I have much respect for your father. But your father, his thinking is old-fashioned. You must understand why I had to do that. Now let's work through where we go from here." When Michael returns from the bathroom, he continues in Sicilian with: "Everything all right? I respect myself, understand, and cannot allow another man to hold me back. What happened was unavoidable. I had the unspoken support of the other Family dons. If your father were in better health, without his eldest son running things, no disrespect intended, we wouldn't have this nonsense. We will stop fighting until your father is well and can resume bargaining. No vengeance will be taken. We will have peace. But your Family should interfere no longer."
Nice place to “go to the mattresses”.
Make them an offer they can’t refuse!
In the book, Vito’s mansion was in Long Beach, a few miles south of where I grew up.