We’ve mentioned this movie before when we were just starting our blog by recapping some favorite movies we had already written about in print.

In fact, the scene in which Michael Corleone grabs a gun taped to the back of a toilet is our second-favorite Plumbing At The Movies episode. We bring it up again since we recently read a magazine article about shooting the movie called “The Godfather Wars.”

Not many Italian-Americans were for the making of this movie. I still remember as a kid watching “The Godfather” for the first time on TV and director Francis Ford Coppola had a special introduction in which he basically said the movie wasn’t about all Italian-Americans, just the ones, you know, who happened to belong to the Mafia.

As the movie was gearing up, real-life New York Mafia chief Joseph Colombo Sr. started the Italian-American Civil Rights League, claiming among other things harassment by the FBI on behalf of his family and many friends. An estimated quarter of a million people showed up at the league’s inaugural rally and the filming of “The Godfather” quickly become the group’s Public Enemy No. 1.

Eventually everybody made nice and the mob ended up actively supporting the movie with some advising the actors and, in at least one case, a mobster getting a good part.

It didn’t end so happily, however, for Colombo. As filming progressed, the mob boss was shot three times in the head at an Italian-American Civil Rights League rally. Police blamed another mobster, of course, but nothing was ever conclusively proved since the hit man himself was gunned down dead on the spot. Colombo remained in a coma from his wounds for the next seven years before dying.

Anyway, here’s the famous restaurant scene in which Michael guns down Sollozzo and a corrupt police chief. It breaks my heart that the clip cuts away from the bathroom scene.

As a result, here’s a bonus clip of the baptism scene in which Michael, such a goody-goody at the beginning of the movie, settles the score with the other families. After all, the baptism font is holy plumbing, so it fits our blog.