Michael soon discovers that the traitor who leaked critical information to his enemies was none other than Fredo-his older brother. Roth survives because the Cuban police shot the would-be assassin, thinking that he was a rebel. Michael, however, expresses his hesitation after contemplating the effects of ongoing Cuban Revolution.Ĭome New Year’s Eve, Michael moves to have Roth and Johnny Ola, Roth’s second in command, eliminated. Michael continues to feign ignorance and goes on with business as usual the Corleone group and their partners, including Hyman Roth and Michael, fly to Havana, Cuba to discuss the direction of their business forecasts under the accommodating administration of Fulgencio Batista. This doesn’t go as planned, though, as they try to kill him. As part of his plan he sends Pentangeli to make peace with the Rosato clan in order to preserve the semblance of ignorance. He does this in order to root out all co-conspirators in the treachery against the Corleone clan. Rather than confront him, Michael continues with his ventures with Roth, pretending that he doesn’t suspect a thing. Vito obliges, and when Celemenza sees that Vito is a man who can keep his mouth shut regarding criminal ventures, he invites him to take part in a burglary.Īgain, the scene jumps forward once more to the “present,” where Michael guesses that Roth is the mastermind of the murder attempt. A stoic Vito Corleone has just lost his job due to patronage politics of local extortionist Don Fabrizio Fanucci and in a strange twist of fate, he happens to witness a burglary being perpetrated by his would-be enforcer, Peter Clemenza, who asks that he remain quiet about the crime. The scene changes quickly and a flashback is shown once again, this time to a grown Vito Corleone, living in New York in 1917 with his wife Carmela and a very young Santino. Michael is able to escape the attempt on his life, and to get to the bottom of the assassination he flies off to Nevada to gather his forces and to do some intelligence work.
In the evening an assassination attempt is carried out in the Corleone compound with Michael as the intended target. He feels that Michael has abandoned him, failing to defend his territory from incursions of the Rosato brothers, who work for Hyman Roth, who in turn works for Michael. There is dissidence within his organization his caporegime, Frank Pentangeli, is disappointed.
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Amidst this joyous occasion, he is holding a series of meetings as the head of his organized crime family. Vito makes his way to Ellis Island in New York where a migration officer registers him as “Vito Corleone” after finding the name “Andolini” too difficult to pronounce and spell.įast forward to 1958: current Corleone Clan Don Michael Corleone is celebrating his son’s First Communion party at Lake Tahoe. A nine-year-old Vito Andolini is spared from the bloody vendetta against his family enacted by local Mafia head Don Ciccio by the quick actions of loyal Andolini clan retainers. The film begins with a flashback to 1901, where the grisly massacre of the Andolini family in Corleone, Sicily is well underway. The Godfather 2 shuttles back and forth constantly from past and present, contrasting the life of Vito Corleone in the early twentieth century, from his humble beginnings through his ascent into power, with that of his son Michael Corleone in the second half of the twentieth century, whose influence is declining.