In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter.

Sofia Coppola (daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola), plays Michael Corleone's daughter, despite playing his nephew [sic] as an infant in The Godfather (1972). Winona Ryder was originally cast, but she withdrew so that she could act in Edward Scissorhands (1990).

Vincent Mancini:
Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand.


Don Lucchesi:
You understand guns?


Vincent Mancini:
Yes.


Don Lucchesi:
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Continuity: A hand can be seen on the shotgun on the table in the opera, followed by a shot of the hand reaching down to pick it up.

Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Al Martino