The camera wanders around the exterior of the mansion lit by the sweet light of dawn, only to hover as the bedroom of film producer Jack Woltz. A dispute with Don Corleone has ensued, mediated by consigliere Tom Hagen (played by Robert Duvall), and Woltz awakens in blood to discover to his horror his horse’s head under the covers.

“Beverly House” as it was formerly known, was designed in 1926 by Gordon Kaufmann, the American architect who also designed the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River for a banker. It then passed into the hands of Hollywood star Marion Davies and her lover, the tycoon, newspaper publisher and politician William Radolph Hearst, who lived there until his death in 1951.

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