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In the Oscar-winning film, the grand Staten Island home
belongs to Mafia boss Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando.
A Staten Island real estate agency handling the sale has not
refrained from using its role in American pop culture as a
selling point.
"A house's value depends on what people are willing to pay for
it, and some people may be willing to pay more for a home with a
compelling story," Joseph Profaci, managing principal of Connie
Profaci Realty, wrote in an email.
In reality, director Francis Ford Coppola only filmed its
English Tudor-inspired exterior for the movie.
But its current owner has remodeled the interior to make some
rooms look like replicas of the decor in several of the movie's
scenes, according to local media.
That includes an office where Don Corleone pulled the strings of
his criminal empire sat behind a wooden desk on a leather chair.
According to the online listing, the mansion is a 6,248-sq foot
(580-sq meter) manor with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms and
includes a gym and playroom as well as a game room in the
basement.
During filming in the spring of 1971, set designers tweaked the
residential house to give it more of a gangster flavor, adding a
fake brick wall and a wrought-iron gate, local media reported.
(Editing by Jonathan Allen and Sandra Maler)
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