Scarface (1932)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Synopsis:
The rise and fall of a Chicago mobster bearing an uncanny resemblance to Al Capone, and whose attachment to his own sister is his undoing.
Review:
Stylish and visceral early sound 'from the headlines' realism, damning its subject while sharing its cruel humour and revelling in the wholesale destruction of automobiles and property, and the deafening rat-tat-tat of machine guns. There are more than passing pretensions to tragedy to counterbalance the gritty social realism that would become de rigueur throughout the thirties at Warners.
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Synopsis:
The rise and fall of a Chicago mobster bearing an uncanny resemblance to Al Capone, and whose attachment to his own sister is his undoing.
Review:
Stylish and visceral early sound 'from the headlines' realism, damning its subject while sharing its cruel humour and revelling in the wholesale destruction of automobiles and property, and the deafening rat-tat-tat of machine guns. There are more than passing pretensions to tragedy to counterbalance the gritty social realism that would become de rigueur throughout the thirties at Warners.
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Synopsis:
The rise and fall of a Chicago mobster bearing an uncanny resemblance to Al Capone, and whose attachment to his own sister is his undoing.
Review:
Stylish and visceral early sound 'from the headlines' realism, damning its subject while sharing its cruel humour and revelling in the wholesale destruction of automobiles and property, and the deafening rat-tat-tat of machine guns. There are more than passing pretensions to tragedy to counterbalance the gritty social realism that would become de rigueur throughout the thirties at Warners.