Following a stint in prison, Accardo (Tomas Milian), the counsellor to San Francisco’s crime lord Don Antonio (Martin Balsam), requests to leave the family in order to lead a normal life.
Don Antonio reluctantly agrees and in doing so breaks the mafia code that no one can leave the business until they drop dead.
As the resulting gang war escalates in violence and increasingly brings Don Antonio’s life under threat, Accardo returns to once again defend and serve his godfather…
Includes 12 page booklet with new essay by Peter Raleigh
On-disc extras:
NEW Il Consigliori: Tradition vs Modernity: a video essay by Will Webb
NEW Audio Commentary with Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Historian Troy Howarth
Intro by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
Stills gallery
Original Trailer
