Scarface 1932

The rise and fall of a power hungry mobster.

7.5 / 10   565 vote(s)
Crime Drama

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Release Date 1932-04-09
Runtime 1h 33m
Directors Howard Hawks, Lee Garmes, Gus Arnheim, Adolph Tandler, Richard Rosson, L. William O'Connell
Producers Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Writers Ben Hecht, Armitage Trail, Seton I. Miller, W.R. Burnett, John Lee Mahin

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!

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