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The Scarface Mob is an American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Robert Stack. It consists of the pilot episodes for the TV series The Untouchables (1959) that originally screened as a two-part installment of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27 1959. The episodes were cut together and released theatrically ...
Alejandro "Alex" Sosa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1983 American crime film Scarface and the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.He is an international Bolivian drug lord and the chief supplier of cocaine for his business partner Tony Montana.
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 .
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (/ k ə ˈ p oʊ n / kə-POHN, [1] Italian:; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.
Rico (Edward G. Robinson) confronting Joe (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) when Joe wants to leave the mob in Little Caesar (1931). The public's fascination with gangster films, in the early 1930s, was bolstered by, the constant newsreel appearances of, real-life criminals, like Al Capone and John Dillinger , upon whom characters like Robinson's were ...
When Scarface was released, ... Raft took an excellent role as a mob boss supporting Robert Taylor in Rogue Cop (1954), a hit for MGM. Also popular was Black Widow ...
Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino. [6] It is a remake of the 1932 film , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] in turn based on the novel first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail .
A prequel novel, Scarface: The Beginning, written by L. A. Banks, was published in 2006. [3] [4] Montana has a large scar on his face, which explains why he is known as Scarface. This is the same type of scar that Al Capone received from a bar fight in 1917 at the Harvard Inn.