[Paleo Conservative]

In the Godfather book, as in the movie, it was Al Neri who 'dispatched' Barzini on the steps of an office building at Rockefeller Center .....

While Michael Corleoni's nephew is being baptized.

[oyez]

Retribution for croaking Fredo .

[bigsigh]

The end of GF I is another reference to Sicilian culture in the film. Michael is killing all of his enemies at one time. Also done in GF III. It is referred to as Sicilian vespers.

Every evening at 6 the church bells ring and evryone looks up to the cross on top of the church and prays. One evening when the occupying French soldiers looked up, each had their throats cut by a Sicilian.