THE GODFATHER - 1972 Clip (“I Do Renounce Them“)

This is a scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 epic masterpiece “The Godfather“, based off Mario Puzo’s 1969 best selling novel. The scene picks up shortly after the funeral of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), who died while playing with his grandson Anthony in the family garden. The whole family is currently at the local church, where Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), Vito’s youngest son and the newly minted Don of the Corleone Crime Family, has agreed to stand up and become the godfather of his newborn nephew Michael Francis Rizzi, who is the son of Michael’s sister Connie (Talia Shire) and her traitorous husband Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). As the priest is baptizing baby Michael, members of the Corleone Crime family are preparing for the execution of the heads of the Five Families, the mob commission for New York City, who are out to destroy the Corleone empire. At the church, while Michael swears to renounce all sin, the Corleone soldiers take action. First