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15. Pacino was much younger than Brando or Duvall

Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:01 PM

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so he was just getting his feet wet so that he could eventually take off in "Godfather II".

With all the "mafia" films that happened since that first "Godfather" (like "Goodfellas" ), I think they set the stage for taking it up a notch on "the little screen" with "The Sopranos" (RIP James Gandolfini).

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