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Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The screenplay, by Ben Hecht , is based loosely on the novel first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail , which was inspired by Al Capone .
The Thirteenth Guest is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery comedy thriller film, released on August 9, 1932. The film is also known as Lady Beware in the United Kingdom.It is based on the 1929 novel The Thirteenth Guest written by crime fiction author Armitage Trail, [1] best known for the novel Scarface [2] on which the 1932 movie of the same name was based.
The most violent and controversial pre-Code gangster film was undoubtedly Scarface (1932). [52] [53] [54] Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, the film is based on the life of Al Capone. [52] When the film begins, Camonte works for Johnny Lovo but is unhappy being a subordinate, and is attracted to Lovo's girlfriend ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 20,000 Years in Sing Sing: Michael Curtiz: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Louis Calhern: Drama: Warner Bros. [1] 70,000 Witnesses: Ralph Murphy: Dorothy Jordan, Phillips Holmes, Charlie Ruggles
Maurice R. Coons (July 18, 1902 – October 10, 1930), known by the pen name Armitage Trail, was an American pulp fiction author, known best for his 1929 novel Scarface.This novel was based on the life of gangster Al Capone, and was adapted as the 1932 film Scarface directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes. [1]
Scarface is a 1983 American crime film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. The film tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana who arrives in 1980s to Miami with nothing and rises to become a powerful drug kingpin. Rather than being a new adaptation based on the novel, the film is primarily a remake and major ...
Scarface (1932) was a film based on the life of Al Capone and shows how Italian Americans were seen in popular cinema. The Prohibition Era, during which the sale of liquor was banned in the United States, is often identified with the rise of bootlegging and organized crime. Hollywood movies depicting the Mafia became extremely popular during ...
Palange performed in the first Italian language dialogue film, Sei tu l'amore?, released in 1930. [2]Palange played the mother of a gangster in Scarface.Her dialogue with the character of her American-born daughter in which she warns against her son's character has been described as portraying two conflicting character traits, her Old World wisdom in seeing through her son's facade but ...