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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.
Antonio "Tony" Montana is the main character in Scarface and the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours, portrayed by Al Pacino in the film and voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the video game. Oliver Stone came up with the name by combining the last name of his then-favourite football player ( Joe Montana ) and the first name from the main ...
Scarface (1932) (with Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak) as Guino Rinaldo (Raft flips the nickel in his breakthrough role) Night World (1932) (with Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, and Boris Karloff) as Ed Powell; Love Is a Racket (1932) as Sneaky (scenes deleted) Madame Racketeer (1932) (with Alison Skipworth and Richard Bennett) as Jack Houston
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 ...
Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 [1] – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor from Chicago.He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.
Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film starring Paul Muni as Antonio "Tony" Camonte. It was produced by Howard Hughes & Howard Hawks, directed by Hawks (with Hughes adding two moralistic scenes directed by Richard Rosson). [2]
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Her friend, actress Karen Morley, introduced her to millionaire movie producer Howard Hughes, who groomed her as a dramatic actress. She was a success in such pre-Code films as Scarface (1932) as Paul Muni 's sister; in Three on a Match (1932) with Bette Davis and Joan Blondell as the doomed, unstable Vivian; in The Crowd Roars (1932) with ...