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IT HAPPENED ON LONG ISLAND!


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1971-72: "The Godfather"
Filmed on Long Island

The Academy Award winning movie, "The Godfather," has strong ties to Long Island. Its director, Frances Ford Coppola, graduated from Hofstra University in Uniondale. Mario Puzo, the author of the best-selling novel upon which the film is based, was a longtime resident of Bay Shore. Less well-known is the fact that two of the movie’s best-known scenes were filmed on Long Island: Sonny Corleone’s machine-gun death, shown here, was filmed on an abandoned runway at Mitchel Field, and the scene in which a racehorse’s head is discovered in a bed was shot at Falaise, the luxurious Sands Point mansion that once belonged to Newsday founders and publishers Alicia Patterson and Harry Guggenheim.

–Cynthia Blair

 

 
 

 

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