When the famous singer Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) arrives at Connie's wedding reception, Kay, a fan, is surprised that Michael knows him, then stunned when he relates how his father ``helped'' his godson Johnny's early career by threatening to kill his manager unless he released Fontane from his contract. After a failed assassination attempt on _his_ father, Michael murders the culprit, drug lord Virgil Sollozzo (Al Lettieri), and Captain Mark McCluskey (Sterling Hayden) a corrupt NYPD officer on Sollozzo's payroll. <sep>, Pronoun: his