So i was reading this Intresting Articleabout all the deleted scenes and extended scenes when i came across this:



The Young Vito sequence likewise lost about an hour and a half. In the finished film, his story stops in 1925 as he's leaving Sicily. But much more took place when he returned to America. There are scenes with Vito establishing his budding empire, recruiting a young Luca Brasi, teaching a young Sonny the ins and outs of gangster life, and a long sequence in the 30's where the Corleone family is busy fighting off a war with a rival Mafia clan (even Al Capone sends some guys after Vito!)


If all these scenes were actually shot then holy crap thats a lot of footage lost there. They should have just made the two separate stories different movies