
“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.
Release Date: 4/9/1932
Runtime: 93 minutes
Languages: English, Italian
Director: Howard Hawks
Budget: $0.8M
Revenue: $0.6M
Companies: The Caddo Company, United Artists
Countries: United States of America
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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!

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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