Home / The Godfather Part III / Eli Wallach
- Actor
- Eli Wallach
- Character
- Don Altobello
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
Eli Wallach was in his mid-seventies when he played Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, and he built the part out of misdirection. Altobello is an old New York don who plays the harmless family friend, all soft voice and gentle jokes, while he quietly arranges Michael Corleone's murder. Francis Ford Coppola gives Wallach the trilogy's most genial traitor, right up to the opera house in Palermo where the plot turns back on him.
On Altobello's wrist is a round dress watch, the restrained kind that suits a man who settled his tastes long ago. Beyond that it stays a mystery. No published source identifies it, and the brand never shows clearly enough on screen to read, so the maker is simply unknown.
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