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Scarface

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Scarface

Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins

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  read more... ), though they strongly suspect Johnny Lovo paid Tony to remove Big Louis. Tony begins taking over the rackets in town with violent enforcement, and he becomes a threat to Johnny and the other bosses unless they work for Tony. Meanwhile, Tony's sister wants to be more independent, but finds it difficult to escape from her brother's overprotective grasp. The dissatisfaction of the other bosses and the relentless pursuit of the police push Tony towards a major confrontation.

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  • pier007
    March 23, 2009
    pier007
    Electrifying. Probably the most violent among all gangster films of the period.
  • sanjurosamurai
    November 9, 2008
    sanjurosamurai
    the 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)'s depression era crime was like. masterpiece.
  • kenstachnik
    May 13, 2008
    kenstachnik
    Disappointing, but to be fair my expectations were really really high.
  • groaningbitch
    November 27, 2007
    groaningbitch
    scarface 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) as hommage by martin scorsesse's latest flick "the departed"....and also the cocktail glittering neon logo which says "the world is yours" that symbolizes camonte's greedy ambition to take it all....besides each time scarface tony camonte commits a murder, the sign of x in various forms would appear as some mystic forshadowing, even at camonte's demise. during several scenes, as camonte casts his covetous eye upon his boss' mistress puppy, he frequently utters words like "expensive? huh?" or "this is hot!" or showing off his extravagent leisure robe which is a token of wealth then. the man's concepts of success mainly base on materialistic conquest of interior decoration and daily accessory gadgets or imitating the taste of upper class by attending some refined drama show....but his trynnical inference over his younger playful sister manifests his crude and barbarian side that is the catalysis of his doom. as mentioned earlier, camonte terms his success by the materialistic conquest, so his ultimate success would be the conquest of boss's mistress puppy, he reaches his pinnacle of gangster career as he officially possess puppy who is the symbol of his american dream. camonte embraces puppy while pointing his finger to the cocktail sign "the world is yours" with a conspicuous demeanor.(same as the fitzgerald novel "the great gatsby", gatsby's term of success is to win rich girl daisy's love), then he flops into the lowest when his brutal obessession over his sister emerges upon the surface that is his tragic flaw....except paul muni as the legendary scarface whose character is drawed upon the notorious mobkiller al copone....george raft made his leap of fame by impersonifying camonte's good pal vs top hitman guino. (his trademark would be the mindless toying of a dime.).....the 30s scarface might not be as provocative and thrilling as al pacino's 1983 version but definitely riddled with more reading-into-mind sign language.
  • webalina
    June 18, 2007
    webalina
    Surprisingly 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.
  • dieze
    October 29, 2009
    dieze
    "The world is yours"
  • ElCochran90
    September 12, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Way to go, Paul Muni! The film that has become an already universal, powerful Hollywood cult classic, several times better than the remake. Great indeed.

    94/100
  • Glove86
    August 29, 2009
    Glove86
    Electrifying, 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)ng knocked off to rhythm of a shotgun is incredible and the X symbol shows up constantly being a hint/acknowledgement towards who's going to die.
  • GoGetta129
    August 6, 2009
    GoGetta129
    The best gangsta movie of all time. I loved this movie
  • cooktlb00
    June 28, 2009
    cooktlb00
    If You Like Old Gangster Flicks, This Is Good.
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