Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel The Godfather and the movies based on it, which Puzo co-wrote with director Francis Ford Coppola, became a pop-culture juggernaut that introduced a staggering number of unforgettable characters. Few of the supporting players loom larger in the imagination than Luca Brasi, the Corleone family enforcer who, as played by former professional wrestler (and Colombo family associate) Lenny Montana, looked like an angry mountain.
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