It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character calmly renouncing Satan as he becomes godfather to his nephew. Considered one of the great classics of American cinema, the triple Oscar-winning Godfather turns 50 on March 14.… Continue reading The Godfather at 52: celebrating the mob saga that raised the bar for gangster films