Blatantly inspired by Mario Puzo's THE GODFATHER and its successful film versions, the 1977 film CORLEONE is, unusually, an Italian reinvention of American perceptions of Italian culture. Following that hall-of-mirrors approach, Ennio Morricone's score sounds puckishly influenced by his countryman Nino Rota's work for Francis Ford Coppolla, which itself bore a strong resemblance to Morricone's epic Italian scores of the 1960s. A strangely fascinating creation, this remastered edition includes several previously unreleased bonus tracks.