By David Ben Hooren
Movie fans looking to step into the greatest film of all time are in luck this summer! A once-in-a-lifetime adventure awaits as the Staten Island home used in The Godfather is going to be available to rent.
The Tudor-style home that is instantly recognizable as the house where “mafia boss” Vito Corleone lived.
According to the Airbnb listing, “built in 1930, our charming but expansive 6,248-square-foot home has undergone renovations and is completely modernized, while still being recognizable from the exterior for its appearance in “The Godfather” 1972 film. We’re hosting up to five guests at our family home for a long-term stay this summer. Booking opens at 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 27 for a 30-night stay occurring August 1-31.”
The New York Post reports, “The Godfather is Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the famed mafia film And up to five guests will have private access to the 6,248-square-foot spread. Amenities include a large saltwater pool, a pub in the basement, a game room and a gym.”
Mary K. Jacobs writes, “Located in the affluent neighborhood of Todt Hill, only the home’s exterior was used in the film’s most memorable opening scene, which showed the garden party wedding reception for Vito’s daughter, Connie Corleone (played by Talia Shire). This was meant as Corleone’s Long Island home in the movie. Fans of the film will remember that just steps from that front gate, small-time crook Carlo Rizzi was whacked by a member of the Corleone crime family. (The film crew used three houses total in this immediate area for the film, building an artificial gate there to create the sense of a compound, as well as kids from the neighborhood as extras.”
According to Wikipedia, “The Godfather is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, as well as a landmark of the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and is ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).”
The film is based on Mario Puzo’s Novel The Godfather, which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 67 weeks and sold over nine million copies in two years, originally published in 1969.
The film directed by Frances Ford Coppola included an incredible cast of: Marlon Brando Al Pacino James Caan Richard Castellano Robert Duvall Sterling Hayden John Marley Richard Conte, Diane Keaton and infamous character actor Joe Spinell.
