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Name: Scarface (1932)
Released: 1932-5-9
Cast: Paul Muni, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley

Scarface (1932)

PG
1h 33m
1932

98%

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One of the most influential movies of all time, the original Scarface is an exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Academy Award¨ winner Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Camonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Produced by the legendary Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawks, this compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow. Filmed during the "pre-code" era before censorship shaped the way movies were made, "this powerful gangster film is the most potent of the 1930s" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide).

Director:

Howard Hawks

Producer:

Howard Hughes

Writer:

Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett

Cast:

Paul Muni, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Edwin Maxwell

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

98%

Critics Consensus: This Scarface foregoes his "little friend" and packs a different kind of heat, blending stylish visuals, thrilling violence, and an incredible cast.

Reviews

Cinefilia

Yasser Medina

Hawks builds it with a consistent tone that rarely loses its brutal effect to capture the rise and fall of a violent gangster. [Full review in Spanish]

A preeminent, seminal gangster flick.

Among other things, Ben Hecht was a Chicago newspaperman, a playwright, author of maybe the funniest American novel...Hecht defines the writer-producer relationship...

What it has, and what the many other gangster films that have followed it have not, is an ice-cold anger of purpose.

July 8, 2020

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The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)

James T. Hamada

Scarface is a gangland epic, a drama In the raw, bold, brutal and terrifyingly realistic. A high-powered dramatic production that packs a lot of excitement and entertainment, full of brutal killings and yet with some glorious emotional thrills.

April 9, 2020

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