Originally posted by Peter_Clemenza:
[QUOTE]... If that's the case, then Fredo would have become Boss of the Corleone Family after Vito had died.
Oh, of course...then allow me to rephrase (even though that wasn't quite the original question):
If Sonny died and Fredo became 'boss' after Vito's death....then there would've been NO GFII, because he would've run the Corleone Family into the ground before Michael ever had the chance to touch it.
Besides...if Vito had intended for Fredo to run the family then he would've called him back from Vegas and begun to work with him and groom him in preparation for the inevitable. As we know from both the novel and movie...it was MICHAEL to whom Vito reluctantly handed the reigns, not his older surviving brother.
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