Which classic American film portrays a grandfather’s death scene in a tomato patch?

The 1972 classic American crime film that includes the aging grandfather’s death scene in a tomato patch while playing with his grandson is ‘The Godfather’. Marlon Brando (1924-2004) plays the grandfather who instructs his grandson how to water the tomato plants in the garden on a very hot sunny day. The scene depicts Brando, running in the tomato patch pretending to be a monster as he briefly chases his grandson around and around, until suddenly he suffers a heart attack and dies in the tomato patch.

The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola’s who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s best-selling novel of the same name. Brando plays Vito Corleone, the crime boss and patriarch of the Corleone family. The story covered the time period from 1945 to 1955.

In 1972 when the film was released in the spring, it was the highest-grossing film of the year and for a time the highest-grossing film ever made with a gross between $246 million and $287 million at the box office. It was selected for preservation by the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind ‘Citizen Kane’) by the American Film Institute.

it was followed by two sequels, ‘The Godfather Part II (1974) and “The Godfather Part III’ (1990).