Star Wars may have been the most influential film of the 1970s in terms of changing cinema for better or worse. However, the decade's most memorable film experience was Francis Ford Coppola's towering achievement - the companion pieces, The Godfather (1971) and The Godfather, Part II (1974), masterly Mafia epics which enthrallingly chronicled the Corleone crime dynasty. A quite outstanding cast featured Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall and John Cazale. The sublime score was composed by Nino Rota.