So you think you know The Godfather huh Cochise? Did you know that the infamous horse head was real? The crew found the horse in a New Jersey rendering plant and had it's head packed in ice and shipped to the set. Also, the Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition. The studio heads wanted nothing to do with him, however they relented with the insistence of Coppola.