The Sicilian (film) of his backer, Mafia Don Masino Croce. The Don, in turn, sets out to kill the upstart by convincing his cousin and closest adviser Gaspare to assassinate him. Due to the huge success of "The Godfather", Mario Puzo was given $1 million for the film rights to his novel "The Sicilian". David Begelman, head of Gladden Entertainment at the time, hired Michael Cimino to direct. When producer Bruce McNall met with Cimino at a dinner in Los Angeles, he complained loudly about the script and Begelman's interference with casting. Cimino wanted Christopher Lambert for the lead role and Begelman was
The Don Flows Home to the Sea with Aksinia, the wife of a neighbour, and how he fights for the Reds, the Whites, and the Partisans. Much of the novel used an earlier, unpublished story Sholokhov wrote in 1925 about the Kornilov affair. The Don Flows Home to the Sea The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940) is the second in the series of the great Don epic ("Tikhii Don") written by Mikhail Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the second half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1940. The novel follows the fortunes