The rise and fall of a power hungry mobster.
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20227/10
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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Cast
- Paul MuniAntonio 'Tony' Camonte
- Ann DvorakFrancesca 'Cesca' Camonte
- Karen MorleyPoppy
- Osgood PerkinsJohn 'Johnny' Lovo
- C. Henry GordonInsp. Ben Guarino
- George RaftGuino Rinaldo
- Vince BarnettAngelo
- Boris KarloffGaffney
- Purnell PrattMr. Garston, publisher
- Tully MarshallManaging Editor
Crew
- Howard HawksDirector
- Ben HechtScreenplay
- Armitage TrailNovel
- Lee GarmesDirector of Photography
- L. William O'ConnellDirector of Photography
- Adolph TandlerOriginal Music Composer
- Edward CurtissEditor
- Howard HawksProducer
- Howard HughesProducer
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