This caused several scenes to be edited and the movie subtitled “The Shame of the Nation”. There were two versions of the film made, the first version was finished in September of ‘31, but the censors didn’t release it until ‘32, basically because they felt it put the gangster lifestyle up on a pedestal to be admired and that it was also too violent. Another rumor goes that Capone’s men came to shut the movie down, but were talked into becoming advisers on the film. According to Hecht, some of Capone’s guys stopped by to find out if it was based on Capone, he said no, it wasn’t, and they left. In fact, its said that Capone actually owned a copy of the movie. Obviously the film is based off of Al Capone, who really was nicknamed Scarface. The real fascination, for me anyway, lays more in what was going on during the making of the movie. Henry Gordon as Inspector Ben Guarino, and Boris Karloff as Gaffney. The movie stars Paul Muni as Anthony “Tony” Camonte, Osgood Perkins as John “Johnny” Lovo, Ann Dvorak as Francesca “Cesca” Camonte, George Raft as Guino Rinaldo, C. Scarface is a 1932 Gangster film produced by the legendary Howard Hughes, directed by Howard Hawks, and written by Ben Hecht and adapted from the 1929 book Scarface by Armitage Trail In order to be an expert on man-movies, you have to be familiar with the older films, no matter how tame they seem by today’s standards. Like anything else, it is good to have knowledge of the great man-movies of the past. Now, a person or two on this site was doubtful about my adding it to the list of Movies Men Must Watch, but I disagree, here’s why. No, not the 1983 Brian De Palma directed Al Pacino remake, but the original. Men, this week I’m gonna be reviewing my second all-time favorite movie in the Crime film genre (the first being, of course, The Godfather): Scarface.
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