"The Horror. . . The Horror. . ." During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

"The Godfather is now a movie." The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

The early life & career of Vito Corleone in 1920's New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-Revolution 1958 Cuba.