Scarface (1932)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Directors: Howard Hawks

Writers: Ben Hecht, Armitage Trail

Cinematographers: Lee Garmes, L.W. O'Connell

Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Boris Karloff

A small-time hood murders his way up from bodyguard to crime boss, ruthlessly and carelessly killing anyone that gets in his way, bringing himself to the unwanted attentions of the local authorities, in Hawks’s formally playful, strangely moving, and much influential gangland melodrama. Iain.Stott