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Scarface (Universal Cinema Classics)

Paul Muni (Actor), Ann Dvorak (Actor) Rated:
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Genre Drama, Mystery & Suspense/Thrillers, Action & Adventure
Format Mono, Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen, Dolby
Contributor George Raft, C. Henry Gordon, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
Initial release date 2017-07-04
Language English
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One of the most influential movies of all time, the original Scarface is an exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Academy Award winner Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Camonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Produced by the legendary Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawks, this compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow. Filmed during the "pre-code" era before censorship shaped the way movies were made, "this powerful gangster film is the most potent of the 1930s" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide).


Bonus Content:

  • Exclusive Introduction by Turner Classic Movies Host and Film Historian Robert Osborne
  • Alternate Ending
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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.8 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1100545
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Mono, Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen, Dolby
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ July 4, 2017
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, C. Henry Gordon
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000N3T0H8
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Paul Muni is ahead of his time.
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Paul Muni is ahead of his time.
There are so many similarities between this original version and the remake with the great Al Pacino. This is a must-have for TRUE film lovers and Scarface experts.
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robin friedman
5.0 out of 5 stars The Classic Gangster Film
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2021
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Americans have had a long fascination with gangsters. The long history of the portrayal of gangsters in film pivots on this 1932 film "Scarface", which has become the stuff of both legend and analysis. Howard Hughes produced the film and Howard Hawks directed. Ben Hecht worked on the screenplay.

The film is based on the Chicago gangland in the wake of Prohibition and parrticulalry on episodes in the career of Al Capone (1899 -- 1947) for control of the entire Chicago mob. Paul Muni give an astounding tough performance of Tony Camonte, or "Scarface". Other performers whose careers were made by this film include George Raft as the coin-flipping associate of Tony, Rinaldo, and Ann Dvorak, who plays Tony's sister, Cesca.

For a film of the early 1930s, "Scarface" was shockingly violent and had difficulty with the censors. It is still brutal. Scarface had no scruples about doing his own killing not to speak of the killings of his gang members and its rivals. There are scenes of killings in clubs, on the streets, in flower shops, bowling alleys, and hospitals. There is a lengthy car chase. And there is the depiction of the St. Valentines Day Massacre when seven members of a rival gang were lined up against a wall and shot. Tony kills his former partners and bosses until at last nobody is left. There were two alternate endings for the film. In the first, Tony is shown dying while trying to escape the police. In the second, he is ignominously hanged. Only the first ending is shown in the print I saw on Amazon.

"Scarface" is included in the National Registry maintained by the Library of Congress and has become the source of a long line of gangster films, including a 1983 remake starring Al Pacino, up to the present day. But it is valuable as a classic for what it does standing alone, as well as for founding a genre. A large literature has grown up around this film covering every aspect of the work from its production, script, actors, relationship with the censors, its meaning in reflecting on the American Dream, and its significance as a work of film and American art.

I have been watching a great deal of film noir the past several years and more recently I have also been watching crime film. I hadn't seen "Scarface" before. I took the opportunity to watch it three times during the brief time it was available on the rental and I also read and watched some of the extensive commentary on the movie that was readily at hand. It was time well spent.

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Patrick Small
5.0 out of 5 stars Scarface
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024
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A classic early Hollywood film loosely based on the life of Al Capone.
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calvinnme
5.0 out of 5 stars An early gangster film and a cinema landmark
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2007
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I see reviews here dating back to the year 2000. This review is for the Universal Cinema Classics release of Scarface that came out in May 2007. First off, the video and audio on this print are excellent. There is no hissing in the audio, and there are very few artifacts in the video. The extras are another matter. First there is an introduction by TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne who provides the same excellent short introduction that he would were Scarface playing in prime time on TCM and he were introducing it there - no more, no less. The only other extra is an alternate ending scene for Scarface. There is no commentary track, which is a shame considering this film, along with "Little Caesar" and "The Public Enemy" form the founding trio of the gangster film in the sound era of the motion picture.

As for the movie itself, it is based on real events that happened in the criminal career of Al Capone, although Capone's criminal career had already ended with his conviction on charges of tax evasion six months before this film was released in April 1932. You know you're watching a Howard Hughes production when, during the first scene, a bar employee is sweeping up after a party held by one of Chicago's big gangsters and finds a bra among the confetti. The film shares some aspects with its gangster film predecessors - Tony Camonte is motivated by a desire for power just as Edward G. Robinson's Rico was in "Little Caesar", and also like Rico takes over the gang from a boss he perceives as weak. However, Camonte doesn't seem to have the pent-up rage of Public Enemy's Tom Powers. When Tony performs acts of violence it is usually related to gangland business. The actual deaths are strictly business, but the execution of the killings themselves are something Tony takes pride in - a sort of work of art on his part. Like Tom Powers, Tony Camonte is given a family background, but unlike Tom Powers, Camonte's family is a completely dysfunctional one. What is unique in this gangster picture is Tony's trio of love interests. He wants his boss' girl, Poppy, as a status symbol. He also seems to have a love affair going with the machine gun, acting like he has discovered America the first time he shoots one. Finally, Tony is in love with his own sister Cesca. Tony's only true fits of rage occur when he sees her with another man, and it is this loss of emotional control over this one issue that is ultimately his downfall. George Raft, an ex-gangster of sorts himself, is terrific as the smart and level-headed Guino Rinaldo, Tony's right-hand man. Finally there is Vince Barnett as Tony's extremely inadequate secretary in a bit of comic relief turned tragic at the end of the film. This film is truly a classic. I just wish Universal had put in a commentary track, for such a cinema landmark is certainly worthy of one. Highly recommended.
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Rita DiPasquale
5.0 out of 5 stars Best film.
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2024
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One of the best films ever made. Howard Hughes contributed the money and Howard Hawks did a great job of directing.
All the actors are fantastic and realistic. Paul Muni gave an Academy Award caliber performance. On svd do not watch the alternative ending. Fine example of film noir. Excellent gift.
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Odette
5.0 out of 5 stars Genial!
Reviewed in Mexico on September 25, 2019
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Un clásico imperdible. llego en el tiempo acordado y sin problema. Sin duda muy recomendable
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Buttet-Goyet P.
5.0 out of 5 stars une claque dans ta face
Reviewed in France on July 30, 2018
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voilà un bon vieux film qui rentre droit au but et qui ne s'éternise pas dans des dialogues inutiles. Muni est un mélange incroyable de jack nicholson et de Loan Chaney c'est un monstre qui crève l'écran. C'est un film brut de décoffrage avec des courses poursuites de vieilles bagnoles. Le film n'a pas du tout vieillit et ça flingue à tout va; complots, meurtres, trahison, jalousie sont au diapason. La fin est magistrale et montre bien la folie du personnage de Muni. une perle noire à découvrir sans attendre par contre l'image est pas top dommage; une sortie en BR est indispensable pour ce chef d'oeuvre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Die Welt gehört Dir....
Reviewed in Germany on August 13, 2011
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Der Gangsterboss Big Louis Costello (Harry J. Vejar) ist in den wilden 20er Jahren einer der letzten Obergangster vom alten Schlag und feiert gerade ausgelassen eine "Junggesellenparty" in seinem beherrschten Viertel von Chicago. Als sich bereits alle Gäste verabschiedet haben, ist aber auch schon sein Killer bereit. Tony "Scarface" Camonte (Paul Muni), der dynamische und skrupellose Bodyguard tötet seinen Boss für den Konkurrenten Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins).
Tony will hoch hinaus und vor allem ganz an die Spitze, immer wieder sieht er faszniert die übergroße Leuchtwerbung von Cook Tours "Die Welt gehört Dir".
Seine Mutter (Inez Palange) lebt aber weiterhin in ärmlichen Verhältnissen, denn sie will das schmutzige Geld ihres Sohnes niemals annehmen. Mit seiner inzwischen 18jährigen Schwester Cesca (Ann Dvorak) hat er ein sehr inniges, eigenartig eifersüchtiges Verhältnis.
Er unterbindet jeden Kontakt der jungen Frau zu anderen jungen Männern, aber gibt ihr Geld, damit sie sich amüsieren kann.
Cesca vergöttert ihren Bruder.
Auf Poppy (Karen Morley), die äusserst launische Flamme seines neuen Bosses hat er auch ein Auge geworfen, aber viel Zeit zum Turteln bleibt ihm nicht, denn Lovo hat den ultimativen Plan fürs große Geld im Alkoholgeschäft. Dazu ist ein Mann fürs Grobe zwingend nötig und diesen Part führt Tony gemeinsam mit seinem besten Freund Guino Rinaldo (George Raft) sehr engagiert aus.
Indem sie die Grenzen ihrer Geschäfte ohne Absprache mit Lovo auf die Nordseite der Stadt erweitern, schwören sie bald einen Bandenkrieg mit den dort herrschenden Gangstern OŽHara und Gaffney (Boris Karloff) heraus.
Inspektor Ben Guarino (C. Henry Gordon) ist Tonys Widersacher auf der gesetzlichen Seite, er versucht verbissen dem mit Maschinenpistolen geführten Gangsterkrieg zu stoppen...
"Scarface - The Shame of the Nation" so der damalige Original Kinotitel aus dem Jahr 1932 ist DER epochenprägende Gangsterfilm überhaupt und machte sowohl Regisseur Howard Hawks als auch den Produzenten Howard Hughes sehr populär.
Howard Hawks' Verfilmung war der dritte große Gangsterfilm nach Little Caesar und Public Enemy, der das Genre für die nächsten Jahrzehnte prägte und Stereotypen und Rituale festlegte.
Das Drehbuch schrieb Ben Hecht, der vor seiner Karriere als Drehbuchautor als Journalist in Chicago tätig war und somit auch die Stimmung dieser Prohobitionzeit mit einer Vielzahl an Verbrechen bestens beschreiben konnte.
"Scarface" Tony hat natürlich sehr viel Ähnlichkeit mit dem legendären Gangsterboss Al Capone, der das Amerika der 20er Jahre in Angst und schrecken versetzte
Produzent Howard Hughes hatte damals alle Hände voll zu tun, denn der Film wurde aber von den Zensurbehörden aufgrund der rohen Gewaltdarstellung und der Glorifizierung des Gangstertums verboten. Hughes ließ dann (unter der Regie von Richard Rosson) neue Szenen nachdrehen, darunter eine neuer Anfang und ein neues Ende mit mehr moralischem Anspruch. In dieser entschärften Version kam der Film schließlich 1932 in die Kinos.
Regisseur Hawks war mit dieser Version allerdings unzufrieden und verärgert und brachte den Film in den Bundesstaaten, in denen die Zensurauflagen nicht gar so streng waren, auf eigenes Risiko in seiner Ursprungsfassung heraus.
Die DVD enthält beide Schlußvarianten und zeigt Richard Rossons alternatives Ende als Extra.
Keine Frage, hier hat Howard Hawks einen großartigen Klassiker geschaffen, der auch heute noch mit seinem Tempo und seiner Kälte total überzeugen kann. Im Jahr 1983 gelang Brian de Palma der seltene Glücksfall ein Remake zu drehen, dass sogar mit dem grandiosen Original mithalten kann.
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JAS
5.0 out of 5 stars My first time
Reviewed in Canada on February 1, 2024
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This was my first time viewing, this, the original SCARFACE. Paul Muni was good. Didn't expect to see George Raft.
This version that I purchased was region 2 and it played fine
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