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The Godfather Part III: The Death of Michael Corleone is a 1976 American epic crime thriller film that wss produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino, TBA. It is the third and the final installment in The Godfather trilogy. A sequel to The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), it concludes the story of Michael Corleone, the patriarch of the Corleone family, who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. The film was distributed by Paramount, which also distributed the previous two films. It premiered in Beverly Hills on December 13, 1976. It was released in the United States on December 17, 1976.

The Godfather Part III: The Death of Michael Corleone was widely acclaim by critics and audiences alike praised Pacino's performance and the screenplay, and its ending story of Michael Corleone. Like the first two predecessors, Part III remains a highly influential film, especially in the gangster genre, and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. In 2002, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 32nd-greatest film in American film history and it retained this position 10 years later. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".