Scarface (1932)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
- Howard Hawks
- Seton I. Miller
- John Lee Mahin
- W.R. Burnett
- Richard Rosson
- Armitage Trail
- Ben Hecht
- W.R. Burnett
- John Lee Mahin
- Seton I. Miller
Rating: 7.5/10 by 601 users
Alternative Title:
Scarface, The Shame of the Nation - US
Der Mann mit der Narbe - AT
Лице с белег - BG
Scarface: A Vergonha de uma Nação - BR
Zjizvená tvár - CZ
Arpinaama - FI
A sebhelyesarcú - HU
Czlowiek z blizna - PL
Scarface: Cara cortada - AR
Narbengesicht - DE
Σκάρφεϊς - GR
Scarface, o Homem da Cicatriz - PT
Scarface - Chicagos siste gangster - SE
Лицо со шрамом - SU
Scarface, the Shame of the Nation - NL
스카페이스 - KR
La pandilla de cara cortada - AR
Scarface, el terror del hampa - ES
El terror del hampa - ES
Yaralı Üz - AZ
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Italiano
Runtime: 01 hour 33 minutes
Budget: $800,000
Revenue: $600,000
Plot Keyword: chicago, illinois, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, police, prohibition era, alcohol, gangster, gang war, beer, ambition, film noir, murder, mobster, black and white, pre-code
Odd to see Howard Hawks on this genre, but he directs this workman-like gangster effort steadily, managing to convey some semblance of the environment of fear and violence without actually turning it into a visual gory bloodbath. Paul Muni may have had top billing, but for me George Raft steals this - charisma a-plenty. Boris Karloff appears oddly miscast, but Dvorak and Morley play the roles of the molls quite effectively and Osgood Perkins plays the cowardly bully Lovo well. Holds up remarkably after almost 90 years!
