Let's for a moment, for discussions sake, say that this version of the rough draft did make it into the movie and that Tom and Sandra were having an affair.

I don't believe, for one moment, that Michael would have allowed an affair between the two of them to go on. I believe that Michael would have demanded that Tom stop having an affair with his brother's widow.

But getting back to the reason that this probably didn't make the movie.

I don't believe that the viewer would buy into an affair between those two. It is my opinion that Tom would have never had an affair with Sonny's widow in the first place. It was not something that Tom would do to disrepect the memory of both Vito and Sonny and the family in general. And Coppola probably knew that the veiwer would never buy into a story that a guy like Tom, who loved Sonny and was true to the Corleone family name, would ever do such a thing.


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