Forgetting GF III, all the performances are brilliant. It is amazing how well they stand up.

I think the greatest acting is the ensemble..these pictures proved the shibboleth "there are no small parts" to be true. When you look at the performances of the characters, Tessio, Clemenza, Solozzo, Barzini, McCluskey, Woltz, Carlo, Tattaglia,Mama Corleone, to name a few, it is mind boggling. It is even a greater accomplishment that so many of the characters were reprised as younger people in II.