Don Corleone refuses the offer - if he gets involved in the narcotics trade, he may lose valuable political connections.
The next morning, Woltz wakes up with the severed head of Khartoum tangled in his bedsheets.īack in New York, Don Corleone, Sonny, Fredo, Tom Hagen, and caporegimes Tessio and Clemenza meet with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, who requests a cash infusion and protection for his narcotics trade. However, over dinner, Woltz tells Hagen that he cannot give Johnny Fontane the role because he seduced one of Woltz's proteges. Woltz makes sure to show off Khartoum, his $600,000 stud horse. Later, after finding out that Tom Hagen works for Don Corleone, Woltz has a change of heart, inviting the consigliere to his vast Hollywood estate. Woltz explodes and insists that he will not be intimidated by "goombas", and sends Hagen away. In Los Angeles, Tom Hagen tells Woltz that if he casts Johnny Fontane in the leading role, Hagen's anonymous client will help him with his union problems. After slapping his godson across the face for his display of weakness, Don Corleone promises to make Woltz "an offer he can't refuse". Later, Johnny Fontane sits on Don Corleone's desk, lamenting the fact that he is desperate for a role in a new war film, but the studio head, Jack Woltz, has refused to consider him. The wedding guests are treated to an impromptu performance by Johnny Fontane, a famous crooner and actor - and Don Corleone's godson. Upon introducing her to his family and their "business", Michael assures Kay that he is not like his family. Meanwhile, Michael, the youngest son, comes to the wedding dressed in his Marine uniform, accompanied by his WASP girlfriend, Kay Adams. Sonny's younger brother, Fredo, is a simple-minded, ineffective party animal. Sonny, Don Vito's eldest son, is the hot-headed, philandering Underboss of the Family. During the wedding scene, director Francis Ford Coppola introduces his audience to the vital members of the Corleone Crime Family. While Don Corleone conducts business in his shadowy office at the Corleone Mall in Long Beach, Long Island, the wedding of his daughter, Constanzia "Connie" Corleone and Carlo Rizzo is underway in the courtyard. He has come to the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone, to enact justice where the law has failed.
Bonasera's daughter is disfigured as a result of a brutal attack by her boyfriend and his friends. In a dark room, Amerigo Bonasera, a Sicilian-born undertaker, describes his plight.