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9 April 1932 (USA) morePlot:
An ambitious and near insanely violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
Gabriel Byrne: The Hollywood Interview(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 April 2009, 2:49 PM, PDT)
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"Scarface" is most often brought up in discussions on the gangster movie moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Paul Muni | ... | Antonio 'Tony' Camonte | |
| Ann Dvorak | ... | Francesca 'Cesca' Camonte | |
| Karen Morley | ... | Poppy | |
| Osgood Perkins | ... | John 'Johnny' Lovo | |
| C. Henry Gordon | ... | Insp. Ben Guarino | |
| George Raft | ... | Guino Rinaldo | |
| Vince Barnett | ... | Angelo | |
| Boris Karloff | ... | Gaffney | |
| Purnell Pratt | ... | Mr. Garston, publisher | |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Managing editor | |
| Inez Palange | ... | Mrs. Camonte | |
| Edwin Maxwell | ... | Chief of detectives |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
93 minCountry:
USAColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoCertification:
UK:15 (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Finland:K-15 (2005) (DVD) | Netherlands:6 (DVD rating) | Brazil:14 | Norway:16 (1984) | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG (re-release) | USA:Passed (original rating) | Germany:16Fun Stuff
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Ranked #6 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster". The remake Scarface (1983), starring Al Pacino, is ranked #10 in June 2008. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: Just before Tony and Guino kill Johhny Lovo, Tony can be seen standing by the door to Lovo's office; as the characters are in the office, the letters on the glass pane should appear inverted (right to left), but they don't. moreQuotes:
Tony Camonte: I don't know nothin'. I don't see nothin'. I don't hear nothin'. When I do I don't tell the cops. Understand? moreSoundtrack:
Some of These Days moreFAQ
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"Scarface" is the film of the Thirties which is most often brought up in discussions on the gangster movie
According to Hawks, he directed "Scarface" with the idea of telling the story of the Capone family as if they were the Borgias living in Chicago in the Twenties.... This may well be- true At the time, however, there was much publicity to suggest that "Scarface" was the Capone story which it certainly wasn't
It was a very good, exciting gangster film, and it stands up well when viewed today, more than 70 years on
Paul Muni gave a great performance as Tony Camonte, the scarred gang-leader, but it bears little resemblance to Capone as he really was Camonte is tough, ruthless, a handy man with a gun and at the end a figure hysterically afraid of death as he battles it out with police from his steel-shuttered fortress
Capone was certainly tough and ruthless, but he tried to avoid gunplay himself and employed others to do his dirty work He was not cowardly, and he did not die in battle
"Scarface"should be seen and remembered as a film devised to exploit the Chicago of its day and it must be remembered that Chicago gang wars made front-page banner headlines all over the world It is the story of a battle for power between two gangster figures: Tony Camonte and Gaffney, played by Boris Karloff A secondary plot hinges on Camonte's strength of feeling for his sister, Cesca (Ann Dvorak), and the romance between Cesca and Camonte's henchman, Guino Rinaldo (George Raft).
Eventually Camonte kills Rinaldo in the belief that he has violated Cesca though the pair are actually married This is the famous scene in which Rinaldo, whose trademark throughout the picture is his constant flipping and catching of a gold coin, drops out of picture as he dies... and the coin this time falls to the floor
Gaffney, the rival gang-leader, is sometimes likened to Edward "Spike" O'Donnell, with whom Capone fought a war for control of the Chicago South Side
In the film, however, the Gaffney character is totally unlike the real Spike, who was a rough-and-ready criminal of Irish descent with a tendency towards practical jokes He and his three brothers, Steve, Walter and Tommy, did just about everything in their time, from bank robberies to strike-breaking, with a little pick-pocketing on the side "Spike" was a devout Catholic who attended services regularly... yet his most-quoted remark is: "When arguments fail use a black-jack."