Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Big Louis Costillo, last of the old-style gang leaders is slain, and his former bodyguard Tony Camonte is taken into custody. Since Costillo's body has never been found, the police have to release him...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2007
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March 23, 2009Electrifying. Probably the most violent among all gangster films of the period.
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November 9, 2008the grandfather of all gangster films. the gold standard and one of the greatest films ever made, this film is everything that a gangster picture should be. haunting for its time, the original scarface puts the depalma version to shame and shows us what the gritty world of 1930...( read more)
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November 27, 2007scarface in 1932 was one of the first film with the primitive perspective to dig into the anti-hero american dream.....perhaps partially spoiled by its moralistic ending, but subtled by its several metaphoric index such as the x sign which stands for toni camonte that is utilized...( read more)
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June 18, 2007Surprisingly brutal for the time period. Probably seen as violent then as the remake was to us. Paul Muni did an impressive job in the title role.
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September 12, 2009Way to go, Paul Muni! The film that has become an already universal, powerful Hollywood cult classic, several times better than the remake. Great indeed.
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August 29, 2009Electrifying, violent and riveting. Muni as Tony Camonte is terrifying. He is an all-consuming character, and greed is a light word to define him. Howard Hawks has fine, sharp direction and has a knack for great images: the shot of the calendar superimposed with the dates bei...( read more)
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February 13, 2008I wish people didn't post pictures of th 1983 film, remember this is the 1932 version. That goes with the videos too!
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