In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Antonio 'Tony' Camonte
Francesca 'Cesca' Camonte
Poppy
John 'Johnny' Lovo
Insp. Ben Guarino
Guino Rinaldo
Angelo
Gaffney
Mr. Garston, publisher
Managing Editor
Mrs. Camonte
Chief of Detectives
Blonde at Paradise Club
Pietro, the Barber (uncredited)
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
Jim, the Headwaiter (uncredited)
Waiter at Columbia Cafe (uncredited)
Mabel (uncredited)
Odd to see Howard Hawks on this genre, but he directs this workman-like gangster effort steadily, managing to convey some semblance of the environment of fear and violence without actually turning it into a visual gory bloodbath. Paul Muni may have had top billing, but for me George Raft steals this - charisma a-plenty. Boris Karloff appears oddly miscast, but Dvorak and Morley play the roles of the molls quite effectively and Osgood Perkins plays the cowardly bully Lovo well. Holds up remarkably after almost 90 years!
Antonio 'Tony' Camonte
Francesca 'Cesca' Camonte
Poppy
John 'Johnny' Lovo
Insp. Ben Guarino
Guino Rinaldo
Angelo
Gaffney
Mr. Garston, publisher
Managing Editor
Mrs. Camonte
Chief of Detectives
Blonde at Paradise Club
Pietro, the Barber (uncredited)
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
Jim, the Headwaiter (uncredited)
Waiter at Columbia Cafe (uncredited)
Mabel (uncredited)
Odd to see Howard Hawks on this genre, but he directs this workman-like gangster effort steadily, managing to convey some semblance of the environment of fear and violence without actually turning it into a visual gory bloodbath. Paul Muni may have had top billing, but for me George Raft steals this - charisma a-plenty. Boris Karloff appears oddly miscast, but Dvorak and Morley play the roles of the molls quite effectively and Osgood Perkins plays the cowardly bully Lovo well. Holds up remarkably after almost 90 years!
