I'll go with the one where Sonny's daughter and her fiancee come to see Michael so he can ask for her hand in marriage. Michael seems really moved, and when he finds out the young man is studying art, but that he has a huge trust fund, he gives him the avuncular advice to take a few business courses just in case. Then when they leave he gives instructions to give them a big dowry so the groom's family doesn't think the Corleones are a bunch of barefoot peasants. This scene shows
a kinder side of Michael than any other in the trilogy....which is probably why it was cut.

Good scene, DT. But I'll go with the scenes of Sonny, just after Vito's shooting. Especially the one where he couldn't bring himself to sit at the Don's desk. That scene really showed off Sonny's split personality, how gentle and sentimental he could be. Poignant stuff, that was.

Had those scenes made it into the theatrical release, Jimmy Caan would have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year, instead of Joel freaking Grey. That still sticks in my craw.

What has Joel Grey done in the past 30 years? An astonishingly poor choice. Then again the Academy has made some truly awful picks over the years. Especially giving not one but two Oscars to Sally "Give Me Your Boniva, Baby" Fields.

I think this is also my favorite.

1. Michael with Francesa and Gardner Shaw.
2. Al Neri who violently moves out Klingman at the Tropicana.
3. Michael hears about Fabrizio being located & Fabrizio getting killed as revenge for the murder of Apollonia.
4. Fredo and Deanna Dunn just prior the the party at Lake Tahoe.
5. Young Vito taking his revenge on the killers of his family.

But the worst one is the scene in which a young Hyman Roth is introduced to Vito. The actor who plays the young Roth was a terrible choice imo.

I loved all of them. The most informative is the visit to Genco's deathbed, which tells us about Michael's aloofness from his family at that point, and why Tom became consigliere. Also, there's a very revealing bit by Brando while he and Michael are standing by the limo. He says, "Did your American [emphasis added] girlfriend get home alright?" He rolls his eyes when he says "American." Explains why the only scene Kay is in with Vito was the photo at Connie's wedding--and the funeral.

dt, in the "Saga" version that appears on cable periodically, there's an interesting, 6-second addition to the Francesca/Gardiner scene. After Michael tells Tom about Italian brides, he turns to a hulking young man in a plaid sportscoat and says, "Santino, how's the football?" "Fine, Uncle Michael," he replies. That is Sonny's oldest boy.

Yes!

I confess. I've only seen the deleted scenes twice, and then I've probably missed some because I've only seen the ones on the most recent DVD-colection release.

But this thread inspires me to go watch the deleted scenes again...

For me the 'Genco deathbed' scene. Marvelous. How the man believes Vito can save him from death. It would have been a great asset to the movie for several reasons:

1) The respect people (family of Genco and Genco himself) have towards Vito is shown
2) The power of Vito (Genco believes even 'Dead' is afraid of him)
3) The intelligence of Vito and especially his perspective views on things (saying Genco shouldn't make stupid blasphemy comments and saying he's not that powerfull)

I loved it!

I interpret the scene a little differently. I don't think Genco actually believes that Vito can stop death. It's more of an old game between the two friends. Genco knew that Vito managed a lot of seeming impossibilities. "Pull some strings!" was one last compliment. But Vito was a serious man. He didn't want to hear foolish compliments in a solemn situation.
Another possible way to read the scene is that Genco was already half-dreaming, that he had lost touch for reality.

I think it would be absurd that Genco believed, Vito could stop death.

Well to be honest, I wanted to 'explain' the same as you but couldn't find the correct English words for it. So I wrote it that simplistic as I actually did.

Your English fine, Floors. One of the admirable traits of Europeans is that so many speak multiple languages.

Danke!
Spassibo!
Dank U wel!
Gracias!

any scene with Genco! It has always been my thinking that taking out Genco actually changed the story and makes a difference, whereas the others are just interesting bits, to me.

I always loved the deleted scene when Neri is in the casino and just manhandle's the "former" owner. Then he sits in the chair and yells at the girls to "keep it going." That was great...I wish they would have kept that in. That was one of the more "gangster" moments I wish they showed more of in GFII.

The scene where Michael demands to be involved in the discussions about Sollozo, to Sonny and Tessio and Michael advises Sonny not to go after Sollozzo 'cause it's "not what pop would have wanted". You can just tell Michael wants to take charge.

It just annoys me how little we saw of Fredo in these parts, he's an underboss and a son of Vito, he wouldn't have just been left out of these discussions, even though his opinion really wasn't worth shit to the other he;d have been there out of respect for being Vito's son.

In the novel is is said that Fredo was in such a shock he was in no way capable of being part of those discussions. So that's probably the reason he isn't present in the movie either.

Any of the scenes containing the young Vito. I think it's brilliant seeing how it all started and shows the foundation of the future family

On what in the world are some of these comments based. There is nothing in the novel or GFI that in any way indicates that Fredo was anything close to an underboss or anything more than a driver for his father.

Fredo was no more than the Corleone's representative in Las Vegas in the novel and the first film.

my favorite deleted scene (which was deleted, ironically, from the Additional Scenes of the Godfather Collection:

After Bonasarra leaves Vito's office during the wedding scene (opening scene), Vito observes his son Santino staring at the window. Vito is peeved at this, and whistles at him.

I only saw this little scene on the Godfather, A Novel for Television.

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as far as what was shown, I think i loved the one where Tessio and Sonny are in the room discussing whether the traitor is Paulie or Clemenza, and Michael brings Tom's wife Theresa into the room with him. How Santino talks here is as good as anything else they showed in the finished film. ("where were you, where?")