Brand new factory sealed dvd set, all were purchased seperately with it's own case (no box set case) for a total of 4 disc (part 2 is a 2-disc set). GODFATHER: Coppola's multiple award-winning epic of Mario Puzo's novel about a fictional Mafia family in the 1940s. It opens with the wedding of Don Vito Corleone's (Marlon Brando) daughter and attendant upstairs activity. The Godfather's role in the family enterprise is described by his name; he stands outside the next generation which will carry on and, hopefully, angle the family into legitimate enterprises. The Godfather himself is not even the central character in the drama. That position goes to the youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), who understands the nature of his father's position while revising his old-fashioned ways. Revenge, envy, and parent-child conflict mix with the rituals of the Italian mob (auto bombs, double-crosses, and garretings). Minutely detailed with inspired casting, there simply isn't enough time to go into all the details and backgrounds of such characters as: Sonny (James Caan), the violence-prone Corleone; Clemenza (Richard Castellano), the family lieutenant; Jack Woltz (John Marley), the perfectly hateful movie mogul who wakes up in one horrific horse scene to find that he'll have to cancel his day at the races; Luca Brasi (Lenny Montana), the loyal professional killer; the film debut of Coppola's daughter Sofia who is the infant in the baptism scene and McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), the crooked Irish cop. The movie gives almost everything in the novel, it doesn't miss a single killing. GODFATHER part 2 moves both forward and backwards in time from the events in the original to tell two stories: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito and the ascension of Michael as the new Don. The opening chapter in Don Vito's younger days has his family killed by a Mafia Don in Sicily, he comes to America at the age of nine, grows up (to be played by Robert De Niro), and edges into a career of crime, first as a penny-ante crook and then as a neighborhood power broker: a man, as the movie never tires to remind us, of respect. This story of Don Vito's younger days in flashbacks, for example, intervening on behalf of a poor widow who is being evicted from her apartment, occupies perhaps a fourth of the film's 200 minutes. Coppola devotes the rest to Michael Corleone, who has taken over the family's business after his father's death, has pulled out of New York, and consolidated operations in Nevada, and has ambitions to expand in Florida and Cuba. Again played brilliantly by Al Pacino, and among the other familiar faces are Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen, the family's lawyer; Diane Keaton as Michael's increasingly despairing wife Kay; and John Cazale as the weak older brother Fredo. Michael, who took over the family with the intention of making it "legitimate" in five years, is drawn deeper and deeper into a scheming web of deceit and betrayal. As Michael attempts to discover who betrayed him and attempted his assassination, he tells differant stories to differant people, keeping his own counsel, and we have to think as he does so we can tell the truth from the lies. GODFATHER part 3: Don Corleone (Pacino), now aging (in his 60s) and guilt-ridden, is dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor. Determined to buy his salvation by investing in the Catholic Church, he finds it to be a more corrupt brotherhood than his own. Meanwhile, back on the homefront, his young daughter discovers her sexuallity as she falls in love with her first cousin. And his successor could be fiery Vincent (Andy Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. Beautifully photographed in Italy by Gordon Willis, this final chapter is a stunning and inevitable conclusion to the saga. The trilogy has too many Academy Awards to count but know this, it's the only one in history to receive back-to-back Best Picture Awards for both the original and it's sequel in the following year.