No I dont think it was dramatic license. With Vito in the hospital and with Sonny doing a bad job running the family which killed a NYPD captain, Stracci and Cuneo would ally themselves with Barzini and Tattglia so they could pick up some of the spoils of the defeated Corleone empire.


"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"

"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."

"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."