While watching the Saga on my DVR, I slowed down the scene where the old man who was singing at Connie's wedding gets out of the car at Vito's funeral. It turns out that both my friends, Turnbull and SC, were right. He is not Nazorine's father, as I originally thought he was. If you slow down and go frame by frame when the cars pull up in the cemetary, you can see one of the other Don's getting out of a car and then the old man coming out of that same car right behind him.

Then if you go back to the commission meeting, if you pay close attention, as Vito is introducing the heads of the families and the camera is scanning the room, you can see the same old man who was singing at Connie's wedding sitting at the table.

So my friends, you both were correct. The old man is NOT Nazorine's father.

I owe the both of you a dinner.





Right before he gets out of the car ( above pic ) in the movie you can see one of the other Dons getting out of the same car.

Why did anyone think he was Nazorine's father. How did that come up?

Also, the guy who was shot in the elevator was a short, animated guy. It wasn't Stracci.

Connie's wedding gave us a great introduction to FFC's fanatical attention to detail, and the old guy provides a sterling example. If you look very closely, he's got his glasses in the breast pocket of his coat while singing. A very realistic touch: vanity would prompt him to take off his glasses for his show, but he'd put them in an accessible place so he wouldn't forget to don them after he got off the stage.
Other nice touches in that scene:
--Any movie set in the early Forties will show men wearing short ties (saved silk for parachutes during WWII). FFC showed the young girls' hair tied with wool ribbons--another realistic touch because silk and rayon were needed for the war effort.
--Any producer or designer can rent Thirties and Forties cars. FFC made sure that they had gas rationing stickers in their windshield ("A" visible in lower corner).

....hence the old fashioned Italian "football" wedding.

I like it!

No, the old man does NOT get hit.

The Don's that are hit are Cuneo, Stracci, Tattaglia and Barzini.

Okay, which one is Stracci?

The one Clemenza shotgunned in the elevator.

(Neri shot Barzini; Willie Cicci got Cuneo in the revolving door; Rocco Lampone shot Philip Tattaglia in bed with the whore).

I am still confused over this. Cuneo gets shot in the revolving door. As the camera pans across the attendees at the dons' conference, I don't recall seeing the don that was shot inthe elevator. It certainly wasn't the tall, elderly guy that we've identified as Stracci. Right? Where else in the movie was he identified?

OK, SC, I have a question. Clemenza kills him in the elevator. However, there are three men in the elevator and the shotgun only fires twice. Would Clemenza leave a witness??

OK, SC, I have a question. Clemenza kills him in the elevator. However, there are three men in the elevator and the shotgun only fires twice. Would Clemenza leave a witness??

OK... here is Stracci at the meeting (on the right; the left is Don Zaluchi from Detroit):


And here is Stracci in the elevator (the second guy in back):

The better question is how did Clemenza know that Stracci was in the elevator since Clemenza was running up the steps at the time.

I don't recall a bathroom scene; other than Connie getting belt-whipped by Carlo.

Someone here - I forget who - had a logical, if purely speculative, argument that the old guy was Nazorine the Baker's father.

Nazorine is up there on the stage with him, and they exchange some words while there, I believe.

Well, if that were the case, why does the Nazorine go to Vito for help instead of his own father who was a don. He is one of the dons at the dons' conference.