Scarface

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with a statement that the film is an indictment of gang rule and a call to the individual to do something about it since the government is your government. On 22nd Street in Chicago, a gentleman is cleaning up a club where some men who are hanging out are discussing the fact that Johnny Lovo is looking for some action on the south side. This man is "Big Louis" who has done well for himself. He makes a phone call in a phone booth. A shadowy figure comes in from the right and guns him down, wipes his gun and leaves. The man cleaning up the club puts on his jacket and leaves to avoid any complications.A newspaper editor is putting out a story that "Big" Louis Costello has been killed, and that this is the beginning of a gang war. He was the last of the older generation of gangsters. He wants "gang war" in the lead copy.Some cops (led by Guarino) (C. Henry Gordon) come to a barbershop. and the barber hides a man's gun under a towel. The man, Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), makes sarcastic jokes with the police and lights a match off of the policeman's badge as a sign of disrespect. The cop punches him and places him under arrest. Down at the police station someone reads off Tony's police record, showing us that Tony Camonte is currently strong arm for Louis Costilo (Harry J. Vejar). Johnny Lovo split with "Big" Louis. Tony was seen with Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins) in a barber shop and what was he up to? He is released on habeus corpus by his lawyer, Fleming. He then visits Johnny Lovo. Johnny Lovo has a girlfriend named Poppy (Karen Morley) who is flippant with the two men. Johnny gives Tony some cash and tells him he's in for a raise as they move in on the south side. Tony want's to move in on O'Hara, a big deal on the north side but Johnny tells Tony to forget about having ideas of his own and to forget the north side. Johnny wants to wait until after Louis' funeral to have a meeting about running beer on the south side.Tony is paying someone off for an easy job about listening to a gun go off. He expresses disrespect of Johnny Lovo, and claims he will run the whole thing himself someday. He isn't intimidated by the north side, after all, why didn't they take out Big Louis first? there's only one rule; "Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doing it"Tony is eating dinner at home. He is not happy his sister Cesca (Ann Dvorak) is not home. He then catches her making out with a guy inside the front door. He doesn't approve of her hanging out with guys, and offers her cash to have some fun with. She delightedly accepts, but mother warns her that Tony gives nothing away for free, the money is bad, and she will eventually get mixed up in some of Tony's business. She tells her mother not to worry, and that she will run her own life and be ok. She flips some money to a barrel organ player with a monkey on the street.Tony and Johnny and crew smash their way into dead Louis' club and take over. The start shaking down the local speakeasy and pigden joints and overselling their beer and telling them not to worry about Meehan and Berzini. There's a shootup at "the Shamrock". where presumably they took care of Meehan and Berzini. This should lock up the south side. But the newspaper indicates Meehan will live. They go to the hospital with flowers and gun down Meehan.A prop calander indicates the passing of a few months. Tony hits on Poppy again. She is charmed, but tells him to go get a girl. Johnny is mad that Tony took out a north side place because O'Hara is likely to come out and kill them. Just then on the street "Keech" is thrown out of a car with a message to "Stay out of the north side" pinned on him.Back at Tony's house, Camonte's dim-witted "secretary" or right hand man is putting on a hat, gets a call but doesn't get the name of who called. He banters with Tony about his inability to get the name of the caller. He gets a call again and it is not clear who it was. A man comes in with a carnation implying that he has done something to someone at a flower shop. The intercom buzzes, the dumb secretary again does not get the name. Tony takes it, it turns out to be Poppy who is waiting to come in. Tony removes the carnation to remove any connection to the flower shop hit. The man leaves and Poppy comes in. He gives the carnation to Poppy who says O'Hara was killed in a flower shop in the morning. He shows her his place with steal shutters. She notices he has an expensive bathrobe on. He's got a pile of shirts so he only wears a shit once a day. He's got a mattress with inside springs. He brags about a sign outside "Cook Tours - The World is Yours" and says someday the world will be his. Tony makes a move on Poppy but is interrupted by the announcement of the arrival of the cops. He sends Poppy down a secret exit and sets up a date on 4th street for when he is done with the cops. Guino Renaldo (George Raft) comes in. Tony instructs him to get a message to the lawyer to get him out on habeus corpus again.Meanwhile, a British crime lord named Gaffney, (Boris Karloff) is plotting against Tony. He has just gotten an overseas shipment of Thompson sub-machine guns. One of his men calls in to say he is being tailed and Gaffney plots to get the guns moving. Tony has gotten out of the police station and goes to the restaurant. A call comes into the restaurant for Tony which the dim-witted secretary goes to get - then, in a slapstick way he is still on the phone as the restaurant he is at is plastered with bullets from drive by cars. Somehow, he is unscathed.. Tony gets his hand on a machine gun that was lost by someone in the drive by and he sees that you can carry it and sees that it could be useful. He goes to a gang hideout, orders three cars, gets into a fight with Johnny and demonstrates the machine gun. He goes and makes hits on the north side people.The cops complain there's no law against making machine guns, just owning them. They decide to harass a warehouse where they think the machine guns are coming in. There are more hits with car accidents resulting - women screaming, chaos etc. (This is supposed to be on Valentine's day, a reference to the real life 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre.)He shoots seven men execution style. The cops have picked up Gafney who is amazed to see the seven bodies. A reporter finds Gafney in his hideout. Meanwhile the cops discuss how horrible the public's attitude to gangsters is, always being glorified. The cops try talking to the editor to keep gang violence out of the paper or otherwise complaining that the paper contributes to the problem. The editor defends the headlines and the editor makes an impassioned plea to the crowd in his office, presumably city hall types, that laws need to be passed or made tougher in order to change things and that it's in the hands of the people to fix the situation.Tony is with his men at a play where he takes an interest in Sadie Thompson, the main character in a play he is watching. He goes out for a smoke. There is one act left in the play but Tony's men have found Gafney down at the bowling alley and believe it's a setup. He reluctantly agrees to go deal with Gafney. Tony gives instructions for the hit down at the bowling alley as the secretary gets back with news about the 3rd act. Sadie ended up with the marine. Gangs of men begin to crowd around in the bowling alley and as Gafney tosses a bowling ball down the lane, machine gun fire cuts him down.Back at the Paradise nightclub, Tony and his men arrive. He spots Poppy having dinner with Johnny. He gets a chair pulled up. They both try and light Poppy's cigarette. Gunshots ring out in a scuffle a few tables away. It doesn't phase Tony at all - he's used to "noises". Tony's sister hits on Guino Renaldo. She does a seductve dance to entice him to dance with her but he still wants to stay away since she is Tony's sister. She goes with someone else. Tony steals Poppy out on to the dance floor from Johnny. Tony spots his sister on the floor with some guy and knocks him out. He takes her home and he has an argument where she indicates "I'll do what I want". It escalates. He hits her. Cesca runs into her mother's arms. The mother, who has a moral conscience, takes her upstairs to console her. Tony, who might actually feel guilty goes outside.As he gets outside, there is machine gun fire. He makes it to a car to escape but is followed. There is a car chase with a haze of bullets. He is gain unscathed. They go for his tires. and both cars go over an embankment. Tony has escaped to a store (Pietro's) where a man in the dark gives him some nickles to make calls for Renaldo or Lovo back at the club but they have left. He finds Renaldo with one of his girlfriends. He's suspicious Johnny Lovo put out a hit on him. He sets up a scheme where Pietro is going to call him while he is in his office claiming to be one of the guys who saw Tony get away and somehow this will give him away. This is presumably because the assumption is that Johnny wouldn't have known what members of the crew were out so he when he ducks the phone call in Tony's presence, it will give him away. It goes down as planned. After a confrontation, Johnny pleads for his life but Tony leaves having Renaldo shoot him.Tony goes to Poppy's place. He tells her about Johnny and asks her to pack her things. He points to "Cook's Tours - The World is Yours" again. Tony's sister visits Guino in Tony's office. She talks him into having a relationship because Tony will be away for a month. Tony takes Poppy to Florida for a month.Tony comes back from Florida. Comments are made that it's a different town then the one he left a month ago and the crowd at city hall is looking to bust him. He finds out from his mother that his sister has a place of her own and a boyfriend. Tony goes to her new place enraged.Cesca is singing what appears to be "The Wreck Of The Old 97" (a hit record back around the time this film was made). She and Renaldo are expressing their love for each other when Tony comes in sees Guino Renaldo and shoots him. His sister, Cesca, sobbing hysterically, explains that she really loved him and they were married yesterday. She screams that he is a butcher who kills everyone and he leaves.An order comes in for the police to arrest Tony for the killing of Guino. (The original ending starts here) The cops arrive, they shoot the secretary as he stumbles upstairs and takes a phone call while wounded. It's Poppy. He got her name, (the first time he has succeeded in getting anyone's name) and then dies. Tony mutters "I didn't know.. I didn't know.." while he holds the phone as a reference to his sister's marriage.Tony is holed up in his steel windowed fort and his sister comes in with a gun, poiting it at him intending to kill him. Law enforcement arrives with sirens blaring and Cesca instantly changes her mind and pleads for Tony to get away as she stops aiming the gun at him. They have a bonding moment. Tony goes into a maniacal rant that they will take them all on as he loads up a Tommy machine gun and fires outside, hiting a number of policemen and sharpshooters across the street. Stray gunfire hits Cesca in the back and she falls wounded. She pleads for Tony to hold her but it turns out he is afraid of her leaving him alone. She is disgusted that he is afraid to be alone and mutters "Guino, Guino" in her final moments.Just the, the police fire tear gas cartriages into the building. Tony shouts for his sister as the cops, lead by Guarino, break down the front door. Tony stumbles downstairs and aims the gun at them but they shoot first. Tony loses his gun, being shot on the hand and pleads his case to Guarino for a sort of mercy, they try to handcuff him but he runs for it outside and dies in a hail of bullets. Tony Camonte lies dead on the sidewalk when the image pans up from his body to the sign "The World is Yours" and the movie ends.Alternate Ending...In this version, shot to get around censors but eventually abandoned by Howard Hughes, a line between Tony and Cesca is cut, the brother/sister bonding is reduced slightly, and he is successfully handcuffed instead of dying outside in a hail of bullets. The judge reads his sentence. He is found guilty of one murder but he has done hundreds. The judge presents a sort of sermon against violence. He is given the death penalty. A quick scene of the sand bag for being tested for the hanging is shown. Tony is brought in, his legs tied together. A bag is placed over his head. the order for the trap door is given, and he hangs off-screen.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
Inevitably, Scarface will be compared with the near-contemporary gangster films, Little Caesar and Public Enemy, and Paul Muni with their stars Edward G.
Paul Muni's Tony Comonte is neither intelligent nor personable; his manners are crude; and at times he is almost childlike in his behavior: for instance, when he is enjoying a play and is interrupted after the second act, summoned to do another killing,and leaves a henchman behind, who can tell him later how it came out, then is delighted to hear that the "guy with the collar" didn't get the girl; rather, the rougher suitor.
In her own way, she's as amoral as Muni.Scarface along with Public Enemy and Little Caesar set the standard for gangster films.
Whereas the Al Pacino cult classic spanned close to three hours and included almost every imaginable cause of death, this version is a mere hour and a half, give or take a few minutes, and unlike the remake, takes place entirely in Chicago.Made as an anti-gangster film, with a message buried under the many bodies that pile up, this is a surprisingly brutal movie for its time, and got a reputation as such.
But it is a masterful gangster film.Paul Muni is Tony Camonte, a pseudo-Capone psycho who believes in doing the dirty work himself, is a sleazebag.
In an attempt to try and snap some sense into the public and the government about the crime wave (mostly in due to Al Capone, who was a major inspiration for Tony Camonte), Howard Hughes and Howard Hawks brought to the screen one of the landmark early gangster pictures.
The implied violence in the film is, in fact, shocking in places, and while it lacks the blood content and major shocks of the De Palma remake, it doesn't compromise to showing the (slightly Hollywood-ized) truth of the matter- crime doesn't pay, but sometimes it's all people know.Tony Camonte is played by Paul Muni, in a performance that wonderfully ranges from angry to sarcastic, funny to romantic, and just down-right crazy; it's no wonder that Pacino was inspired by his performance to take on Tony Montana in the remake (though one could argue that Muni's bravura presence and delivery in this film out-ranks Pacino's in the later).
And then there's the good-old mixture of solid, fascinating bits with the cops and other criminals, not to mention a boss that has to control Tony's manic ideals of taking over the city (and, perhaps, the world).I once heard Quentin Tarantino in an interview say that Howard Hawks is the 'single greatest storyteller in the history of cinema'.
Film chronicles the rise and fall of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) an ugly, stupid and violent gangster.This film was originally shot in 1930 but was held from release until 1932 because the censor demanded cuts.
Howard Hawks directs this harsh and frank and sometimes humorous look at a small time gangster's(Paul Muni) taste of success before his mob world crumbles around him.
Yet Muni is so great, so intense, that he can render Tony's disgusting sudden cowardice in a smooth, realistic way, and without provoking in the audience any sympathy for the gangster (an important aim for the film-makers).A crucial theme of the movie is Tony's morbid affection (to say the least) toward his sister Cesca (Ann Dvorak).
Let me skip this important motive of "brotherly love", which is extremely difficult to judge correctly, in my opinion.How can a comic character like the illiterate "gangster-secretary", who never gets the name at the telephone, fit so well in the tragic, action-packed story of "Scarface"?
It's not just that SCARFACE is far superior to the remake; it's also the fact that it was one of the most daring and controversial movies of its era (though there were compromises: the scene in the editor's office, where the "moral" is spelled out, was added after the film was completed, to appease the various censor boards), and it's still a fast, often startlingly funny, and vicious gangster movie.
Paul Muni was never better than in this movie (certainly, it's one of his toughest, most direct, least mannered pieces of work), and he's matched by a wonderful supporting cast, especially Ann Dvorak's sly, insinuating performance as his sister.
As everyone else mentioned, Paul Muni is excellent as dopey gangster Tony Camonte, and this time I was knocked out by Karen Morley's performance as a no-nonsense moll; I hope I can find some other films of hers.
I'm not sure the movie works as the anti-violence film it claims to be: Although Tony Camonte has a lot of faults, the non-gangster characters are mostly undeveloped and dull, if not downright problematic, like the police inspector who apparently likes to beat up arrestees.
Pocked with symbolism and shadowy cinematography, Howard Hawks takes us right into the underworld of the gangster through the life of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), the rough but charming gangster whose goal is to take total control of the bootleg beer business, with the help of machine guns.
Other techniques such as a man whistling every time someone is killed is copied in more recent movies like Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction when Jules recites Ezekiel from the bible before killing people.The film opens with a statement of purpose as an indictment' against gangsters.
Hawks cared less about society's gangster problem than his film as he rejected censors requests for inclusion of changed scenes.The movie's dark substance is complemented with humor and romance.
A film about blind ambition for an impossible love.Scarface was one of Howard Hawks most famous movies and is the standard for the gangster genre, influencing future directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
'Why do they want to spoil the classics?'I told him that the the 1983 version that he loves so much was a remake!Howard Hawks 1932 original is a pre Hays code version based on mobsters in Chicago at the time.
The ambitious Tony wants a piece of the action, a step up the ladder and joins up with another mobster, Johnny Lovo who arranged the hit and got Tony out of police custody.This is the beginning of the gang wars in Chicago as Lovo expands his operation, Tony who is more aggressive in taking out his rivals is aided by his coin flipping sidekick Guino Rinaldo (George Raft.)Tony is attracted by Lovo's dame Poppy (Karen Morley) and plans to one day bump off Lovo.
I am glad that the Hawks did not agree with that.Paul Muni (Tony Camonte) is raw, violent, hasty, and at the same time and calculating the main character.
This original version of Scarface, gratuitous disclaimers and all, is a great film for its time due to Howard Hawks's witty, mile-a-minute style which produces great moments like a man being shot in a bowling alley, the camera indifferently following his bowling ball down the lane where it makes a strike.
There are countless moments of terrific film-making even by today's standards, such as when Tony and George Raft's Rinaldo, Tony's quiet and loyal sidekick, while in a restaurant being destroyed by machine guns from the street, are so indifferent to the violence that they begin talking about the Tommy gun Tony picks up from a dead shooter and what a neat gun it is.After having watched Little Caesar, I see just how much more capable a good filmmaker was in the early days of talking pictures.
The film is an explicit indictment of mob rule, much more so than Brian De Palma's remake, and as such it was a brave movie for it's time, (it was originally sub-titled 'the shame of a nation' and Tony was obviously modeled on Al Capone).
The last of the big three gangster films of the early 30s, Howard Hawks' Scarface is the one that has best stood the test of time.
Each murder that takes place is signified by the appearance of an X (the mark left by police to indicate where a body lay at the scene of a death) somewhere on the screen, whether a shadow on a wall or the number on a hotel door), and cinematographer Lee Garmes makes great use of light and shadow to hint at the madness that slowly envelopes Camonte's soul as he rushes toward his fate.Paul Muni in his breakthrough role gives a kinetic performance as Tony Camonte (a figure closely modelled on Al Capone), managing to convey at a moment's notice the cold heart that beats inside the sometimes buffoonish exterior.
All the while by his side he has his loyal buddy Guino Ronaldo (George Raft) and a bumbling Angelo (Vince Barnett) as his secretary.The fast-paced machine-gun mayhem in this film almost never lets up in the crisp 90 minutes running time of the film.Parallely, there are the story angles of Tony's overprotective and seemingly incestuous demeanor towards his sister Francesca (Ann Dvorak), and that of his own pursuit of Johnny Lovo's girlfriend, Poppy (Karen Morley).Great acting skills displayed by most of the cast apart from Paul Muni, of course, who is wildly over-the-top, almost to the extent of hilarity, but in a positive sense!
He has clearly had a lot of fun portraying this character, just as Pacino did in the remake.Penned by Ben Hecht and superbly directed by Howard Hawks,"Scarface" is a landmark in the gangster film genre.Highly recommended!.
It was a cycle that seemed to come to a fitting conclusion with Cagney's WHITE HEAT seventeen years later.Aside from Howard Hawks' brisk, no nonsense direction, the biggest asset of SCARFACE is PAUL MUNI, with the swarthy actor riveting in the role of the merciless gangster who gets his comeuppance in the final scene, squealing like a cornered rat so that the pre-code censorship would be satisfied by a crime doesn't pay sort of ending.A close second to Muni is GEORGE RAFT, flipping that coin in true gangster movie style, and doing nicely in a secondary plot that features his attraction to Muni's teen-aged sister, ANN DVORAK, who appears to have a close relationship with her obsessed brother.Hawks and Howard Hughes apparently had many censorship angles to soften before the film could be released but this is still pre-code stuff that has a sharp enough edge to make it watchable today.Interesting to note that the actor who plays a double-crossing crime boss is played by Osgood Perkins, father of the late Anthony Perkins.
(There are Spoilers) Unoubtaly the best of the depression era gangster movies that came out of Hollywood in the 1930's "Scarface" was so chilling and effective that it had it's director Howard Hawks, who owed the film,lock up all the prints and take the movie out of circulation back in 1932 the year it was released.
Spinning off a remake in 1983 staring Al Pacino the original that's well over 70 years old still eclipses the later, made in color and with far more graphic sex and violence, by a country mile.Vicious and brazen Tony Camonte, Paul Muni, has big plans for himself in getting to the top of the heap in the criminal underworld in 1920's Chicago.
They don't make them, gangster films, any better then "Scarface" and it's amazing to watch the movie now and see how ahead of it's time it really was.
P.S Unlike in action/gangster movies made today the shooting scenes in "Scarface" had real bullets used in it's the films action sequences!
Scarface (1932), Howard Hawks & Richard Rosson, tells the story of Tony Cammante, modeled after Al Capone, an up an coming gangster living in Chicago's south side.
Gangster Tony is very different from the character Muni played in "I'm a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." Poppy however,did not seem much like an important role in the film, maybe we could've even done without her.
Hawks uses various creative techniques, some involving shadows, which give the film a more menacing and dark touch, making it feel less like some violent action movie (which it manages to have many elements of) and more like a Film Noir.The acting is pretty good, Paul Muni makes the character both extremely hatable and pretty sympathetic at times, and Boris Karloff (famous for being in a lot of classic horror films such as "Frankenstein" and "The Mummy") shows up, and is pretty great, too!I cannot come up with any negative things about the film.
Classic film about the rise and fall of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), a violent gangster with an unhealthy relationship with his younger sister Cesca (Ann Dvorak).
Tony shoots his way to the top of the underworld but when he discovers his best friend (George Raft) is having a relationship with Cesca, he loses control and everything begins to unravel.One of the trio of gangster classics, along with Little Caesar and Public Enemy, that defined the genre.
You better get in.Muni is Tony Camonte, a scarfaced goon from the tough Five Points section of New York who comes to Chicago with his coin-flipping comrade Guino (George Raft) for torpedo work with a top crime boss.
Prior to watching this movie I had very high expectations for it and assumed that I would love it because of its obvious reputation of fueling the big gangster film era of the 1930s and because, after watching "I am a Refugee from a Chain Gang", I find Paul Muni to be a fantastic actor of his time.
Robinson, that hammiest of hammy 30s actors, Paul Muni, tossed his hat into the gangster ring to play Tony "Scarface" Camonte, polishing off a nice little trilogy of gangster movies from the early 1930s that includes "The Public Enemy" and "Little Caesar." The result lands squarely between the other two films in my affection.
Ann Dvorak lands the role of Tony's sister, and it's their strange relationship, one that takes the picture in a surprising direction toward its climax, that lends the film its novelty in the otherwise fairly formulaic gangster genre.Howard Hawks helmed this one, and earned his salary by his creative direction of the opening sequence alone.Grade: A-.
I feel like it is good to pay attention to the motives of every character involved as everyone plays a big role in the life of Tony Camonte played by Academy Award winner Paul Muni, who does a wonderful job at playing a man who enjoys his world of crime.
Also raising eyebrows was the hint of an incestuous interest Mr. Muni's character has for his teenage sister Ann Dvorak (as Francesca "Cesca" Camonte); however, these kind of sexual subtexts (both intentional and not) were nothing new.Additionally fine supporting performances are delivered by banged-up mob boss Osgood Perkins (as John "Johnny" Lovo), henchman George Raft (as Guino "Little Boy" Rinaldo), leggy blonde Karen Morley (as "Poppy"), inept male secretary Vince Barnett (as Angelo), and bowling rival Boris Karloff (as Gaffney).
The father of all gangster films and definitely one of the best, Howard Hawk's Scarface is an incredible array of bullet-flying action and sexual innuendo that does not stop.
Considered extremely violent for its time, it took over a year for producer Howard Hughes to get it released, but he did and it now stands as a classic with full-fledged performances and a very tight script.Paul Muni, a name not that much heard in Hollywood lore, does excellent work as Tony Camonte, a man who starts out working for a local crime boss but has such a big head he is going to end up one eventually.
With other crime movies of the day, SCARFACE makes every attempt in topping them all, even those produced by Warner Brothers, where many of the best gangster films were made.
It was also one of the first films from the classic movie era to be distributed to home video by about the same time as the 1983 remake starring Al Pacino in a remake brought up to date, changing the Tony character from Italian mobster of Chicago to Cuban refugee in Florida, containing more intense violence that the original ever allowed at that time, each concluding with the neon sign reading, "The World is Yours," along with a closing dedication to director Howard Hawks after its extreme three hour length.
Robinson and James Cagney create more vivid characters, but Scarface is probably the most relevant film dealing with the problem of organized crime in its day, not to mention introducing us to the most dangerous gangster anti-hero of all, Tony Camonte.
"Scarface" 1932 is truly is a great film Classic, directed by Howard Hawks.
The other reason is that he was ahead of his time developing something called "method acting" where he becomes the character rather than constantly playing the same part, It's interesting to note that both Boris Karloff and George Raft appear in SCARFACE who'd both be better remembered than the star of this movieThere's a couple of legacies to come from this 1942 movie and that is the remake by DePalma with its over the top violence and the second thing is use of semiotic code that involves a cross appearing on screen just before or during a death scene.
Paul Muni is "Scarface" in this 1932 film, beautifully directed by Howard Hawks and Robert Rossen, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht.
Paul Muni who plays "scarface" Tony Camonte does an excellent job, he has a sort of "boss" like attitude which really develops his overall character.
Scarface is another gangster genre film of the 1930's like Public Enemy and Little Caesar.
This movie has top notch direction, by Howard Hawkes, acting, by Paul Muni, and action.
Extremely violent and brutal, this original version of Scarface absolutely astounded me with its brilliantly depicted story of ruthless organized crime.Literally defining a genre, Scarface is an excellent, 1932, Gangster film that is considered to be one of the most influential movies of all time.
It is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow.Directed by Howard Hawks, Scarface was filmed during the "pre-code" era before censorship shaped the way movies were made.