As a result of Coppola""s breakthrough win in 1970, he went on to write and directThe Godfather (1972)." Robie sat at an outdoor cafe overlooking the lake and spoke to his friend:Well, of all the seven deadly sins, jealousy is the most deadly.She slashed at him with he carving knife that killed Debbie, wounding him in the hand and thigh, dumped a large bookcase filled with books on top of him, and clobbered him over the head with a thick wooden fire-log.Garland""s realistic performance reflected the upheavals in her own personal life that led to her death from a drug overdose - and ironically, this film""s co-star James Mason delivered her funeral""s eulogy in New York in 1969.The time period of the provocative, sophisticated film is set in the early 50s during the height of right-wing McCarthyism - a time of tense political paranoia with the overriding, reactionary fear that Communists (Russian and Chinese) were scheming to take over the US via advanced brainwashing techniques and programmed terrorist raining.