Scarface (Universal Cinema Classics)
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Actor: Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Karen Morley, Paul MuniBrand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Published)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of Scarface (Universal Cinema Classics)
Movie Review: Ahead Of Its Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Action-wise, this movie was 60 years ahead of its time, at least in terms of the amount of violence in it. I think it's safe to say most classic films, including the crime movies, are much slower in pace than today's fare. Sometimes that's better; sometimes it isn't.
This movie is action-packed with few lulls and it's fun because of it, in this case. Paul Muni, as "Tony Camonte," the head gangster, is compelling and fun to watch. He's tough-as-nails until the end. The main women in here - Ann Dvoark and Karen Morely - are interesting, too. Don't be fooled by the billing of George Raft and Boris Karloff. In this film, they have very small roles.
This is Muni's show, though, all the way and few actors could ham it up in his day like him. It's a wild ride for the full 93 minutes.
Summary of Scarface (Universal Cinema Classics)
Generally regarded to be the best of the classic gangster films, Scarface tells the exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Oscar winner Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Carmonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Produced and directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, Scarface was a groundbreaking film which established both Paul Muni and George Raft as major Hollywood stars, while influencing all gangland films to follow.Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first "talkies" to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. Outgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. It remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul Muni's portrayal of Al Capone surrogate Tony Camonte etched a screen original: a merciless assassin who's not only reflexively criminal but pre-civilized, almost pre-evolutionary, a simian shadow ready to rub out the world if he can't have it for his own. This is still one of the greatest, darkest, most deeply exciting films American cinema has produced. Those demonically ubiquitous X's--starting with that titular scar gouged into Tony's cheek--rival "Rosebud" for resonance. --Richard T. Jameson
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