To hear Robert Evans tell the story, much of the movie as we see it today was a "deleted scene" left on the cutting room floor. According to Evans, he encouraged Coppola to make it the epic it became instead of the standard 100 minute movie we've all come to expect.

As important as each scene is to the whole story, imagine how marginalized The Godfather would have become had even one more scene been deleted from the movie as we know it. On the other hand, it would be interesting to see the movie in its "final edit / first pass" form for the sake of comparison to the version that made it to the big screen..

tony b.