The Godfather (Classic Movies)

The cache is NOT at the above coordinates, but that is where the 3 Williams Kidz and their family frequently go camping and fishing. As you know, it's all about The Family.

Pretty easy, short hike to this one; the Godfather says with his heart condition, he doesn’t like long, tough hikes.

This cache isn’t personal; it’s just business.

BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE LETTER CODE ON THE LID OF THE CONTAINER, AND IN THE FRONT OF THE LOGBOOK (SAME CODE) WHICH IS USED IN THE “CLASSIC MOVIES" FINAL CACHE which is linked below.

Welcome to the seventh Classic Movies cache by the 3 Williams Kidz geo-team. The idea is that you will have to watch the movie to get the answers to the questions below; there are one, maybe two exceptions, for trivia’s sake. Since the entire script is available – and easily “searchable” -- online, I have tried to come up with questions that you cannot answer by searching the Internet, so some of these questions are pretty obscure.

Here are all the geocaches in the Classic Movies series:

1. Casablanca

2. The Great Escape

3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4. Cool Hand Luke

5. Patton

6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7. The Godfather

8. High Noon

9. The Wizard of Oz

10. Gone With the Wind

And the FINAL cache: Classic Movies FINAL cache

If you are willing to watch one of Hollywood’s finest classic movies, get the TV and video player ready, maybe pop some popcorn, and have a pen and paper ready to answer the below questions, which are NOT IN THE ORDER they are presented in the film (just one part of the difficulty rating).

The cache is located at North AB CD.EFG West HIJ KL.MNO

Latitude:

A: Clemenza (Richard Castellano) tells Michael (Al Pacino) that he needs to shoot both the Police Captain and Sollozzo twice in the head each. The number of shots Michael actually fires before dropping the gun is A.

B: Al Lettieri portrays the crime boss Sollozzo. To quote the film: "Sollozzo is known as the Turk; he's supposed to be very good with a knife …" In the next scene, we see the storefront for "GENCO". The street number of GENCO, which is on the same canopy as the GENCO name, has three digits. Add the first and last digits, to get B.

C: What is the highest military medal that US Marine Corps Captain Michael Corleone has on his uniform? If a Silver Star, C=0; if a Purple Heart, C=1. If a Navy Cross, C=2.

D: During the baptism ceremony and the many scene edits, Don Barzini (Richard Conte) walks out of a high rise building and down the stairs toward his car, which is being ticketed by a (fake) police officer. The number of the building has two digits, and the second digit is D.

E: Sonny (James Caan) is at the toll booth, and is about to have a really bad day. The car in front of him is blocking him from moving forward; that car has a license plate on it that has 6 characters. The 4th of the 6 characters is E.

F: Winter has arrived in the city, and a taxi pulls away from a department store as we hear Bing Crosby singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". If the name of the department store is Woolworth's, F=0. If it is BEST & CO., F=1. If it is Macy's, F=2. If it is Sears Roebuck, F=3.

G: Johnny Fontaine (Al Martino) REALLY wants the lead part in a motion picture, but the head of the studio says there is no way he will get it. Johnny discusses this with his Godfather -- Don Corleone (Marlon Brando). Johnny weeps, and the Godfather tells him he needs to act like a MAN! Then, the Godfather AGGRESSIVELY slaps Johnny; the number of times he does so is G.

Longitude:

H: Michael has been helped moving his father to another room in the hospital. The most unlikely hero in the movie, who helps Michael, then REALLY wants a cigarette, but has trouble lighting it is who? If Guido the Florist, H=0. If Enzo the Baker, H=1. If Giuseppe the driver, H=2.

I: Michael is on his way to Louis Italian-American Restaurant in the Bronx to kill Sollozzo and Police Captain McCluskey (Sterling Hayden). He is waiting to be picked up, and is standing on the street, outside of what restaurant? If Tommy's Joynt, I=8. If Sparks Steak House, I=9. If Dempsey's Restaurant, I=0.

J: Don Corleone says "I can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee …" What color is the cat in his lap? If white, J=4. If gray, J=5.

K: The Corleone Family is discussing the move to Nevada; Michael is now in charge, and Don Vito Corleone is Consigliare. What color tie is Michael wearing? Note: Michael is wearing this same tie at the baptism of Carlo (Gianni Russo) and Connie's (Talia Shire) son, at which he becomes Godfather. He is still wearing this same tie at the very end of the film when Kay (Diane Keaton) asks him if he had anyone killed. If the tie is striped black and silver, K=0. If it is solid red, K=1. If it is a floral print, K=2.

L: The number of times the word "Mafia" is spoken in the film, PLUS the number of times "Cosa Nostra" is spoken in the film is L.

M: Don (Vito) Corleone is in the hospital after being shot 5 times. The number of the room that he is in when Michael arrives, PLUS FOUR, is M.

N: Tessio (Abe Vigoda) is dancing with a young girl, who is actually just standing on top of his shoes. She is wearing white shoes and what type of socks? If solid colored pink, N=0. If polka dotted, N=1. If striped, N=2.

O: "Leave the gun; take the cannolis." Paulie (John Martino) -- is not doing very well at all. On the windshield of the car, passenger side, is a sticker with a single letter on a black background. If the letter is A, O=9. If the letter is B, O=1. If the letter is C, O=3.

Hope you enjoyed the movie, and this puzzle ! If you have your solution, check it for accuracy at GeoChecker.com

Congratulations to estes01 and ernie66 for co-FTF less than 10 hours from when the cache was published; the movie alone is almost 3 hours!

Some trivia, from The Internet Movie Database, at www.imdb.com:

Sergio Leone was approached to direct the film, but turned it down since he felt the story, which glorified the Mafia, was not interesting enough. He later regretted refusing the offer, but would go on to direct his own critically acclaimed gangster film, Once Upon a Time in America.

Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone "look "like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist; this appliance is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.

During rehearsals, a false horse's head was used for the bedroom scene. For the actual shot, a real horse's head was used, acquired from a dog-food factory. According to John Marley, his scream of horror was real as he was not informed that a real head was going to be used.

During an early shot of the scene where Vito Corleone returns home and his people carry him up the stairs, Marlon Brando put weights under his body on the bed as a prank, to make it harder to lift him.

As Vito Corleone picks oranges prior to the assassination attempt, there's a poster in the store window advertising a boxing match involving Jake LaMotta. Robert De Niro plays the young Vito in The Godfather: Part II and also went on to play LaMotta in Raging Bull.

The name of the traditional Sicilian hat (worn, for instance, by Michael's bodyguards) is "coppola".

Apart from as required by his Marine Corps uniform, Michael Corleone does not wear a hat until he becomes involved in the family business.

The meeting between the heads of the Mafioso was filmed in the boardroom of the Penn-Central Railroad. This explains the train mural seen behind Don Barzini (Richard Conte).

A young Sylvester Stallone auditioned for the role of Paulie Gatto and Carlo Rizzi, but didn't get the role. Stallone instead decided to try writing and did the screenplay for the modestly successful The Lord's of Flatbush. He would later get his break in Rocky, coincidentally alongside Talia Shire (Connie Corleone).

The actor playing Luca Brasi, Lenny Montana, was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that, in the first take of their scene together, he flubbed some lines. Francis Ford Coppola liked the genuine nervousness and used it in the final cut. The scenes of Brasi practicing his speech were added later.

According to Francis Ford Coppola, the term "Don Corleone" is actually incorrect Italian parlance. In Italian, addressing someone as "Don" would be like addressing them as "Uncle" in English, so the correct parlance would be "Don Michael" or "Don Vito". Coppola says that Mario Puzo, who couldn't speak Italian, simply made up the idea of using "Don" with a person's last name, and it has now become a pop culture staple.

The scenes in which Enzo comes to visit Vito Corleone in the hospital were shot in reverse with the outside scene shot first. Gabriele Torrei, the actor who plays Enzo, had never acted in front of a camera before and his nervous shaking after the car drives away was real.

Al Pacino's maternal grandparents emigrated to America from Corleone, Sicily, just as Vito Corleone had.

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