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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195004473
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Artists
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 7724
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: April 09, 1932
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Generally regarded to be the best of the classic gangster films, Scarface tells the exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Oscar winner Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Carmonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Produced and directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, Scarface was a groundbreaking film which established both Paul Muni and George Raft as major Hollywood stars, while influencing all gangland films to follow.
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Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first "talkies" to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. Outgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. It remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul Muni's portrayal of Al Capone surrogate Tony Camonte etched a screen original: a merciless assassin who's not only reflexively criminal but pre-civilized, almost pre-evolutionary, a simian shadow ready to rub out the world if he can't have it for his own. This is still one of the greatest, darkest, most deeply exciting films American cinema has produced. Those demonically ubiquitous X's--starting with that titular scar gouged into Tony's cheek--rival "Rosebud" for resonance. --Richard T. Jameson
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The original scarface, so much different the 1970's remake. The two movies are night and day. This is a true pre-code noir gangster film made by Howard Hughes, loosely based on the life Al Capone who was terrorizing the streets of America at the time, the use of shadow and subtle violence in this movie makes it a very good example of early noir.
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SCARFACE (1932) is an outstandingly remarkable movie, and even more so, for its
time, as it captures the events unfolding during Prohibition, that were very
closely followed by talented, modern investigative journalists who had mastered
the art of telling stories that sold copy in the stands, from its tabloid style,
completely new at the time.
Of course, not to be confused with the Al Pacino work concerning Cuban refugees
back in the early 1980's, ... Read More
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The early 1930's of Chicago mob rule with the great "immigrant" performance of Paul Muni as the crazed smart suave mobster that overtook both North and South sides of Chicago during prohibition is a tremendous movie that was a landmark in motion picture history and should not to be missed by any fan of this genre.
The movie is non stop entertainment with great character portrayal and the great addition of showing the alternate ending scene on the DVD casts this movie in so many lights that it ... Read More
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A note on Howard Hawks the director of Scareface. Like many of his characters Howard Hawks is good but not obviously so and not according to the usual standards. He is one of the last American directors to be considered a major artist. To some extent this is because, like those characters in his films who naturally discount their achievements, he refused to claim his work as anything but entertainment. He defined the good director merely as "somebody who doesn't annoy you," and insisted "I'm interested ... Read More
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Very clean transfer, a great movie for fans of Scarface and the well known 80s version. This movie holds up very well to today. I wish there were more extras, but I am satisfied with what is there.
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