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Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The screenplay, by Ben Hecht, is based loosely on the novel first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail, which was inspired by Al Capone.
Scarface was the first film in which Hawks worked with screenwriter Ben Hecht, who became a close friend and collaborator for 20 years. [23] After filming was complete on Scarface, Hawks left Hughes to fight the legal battles and returned to First National to fulfill his contract, this time with producer Darryl F. Zanuck. For his next film ...
De Palma's flick is dedicated to the original film’s director, Howard Hawks, and screenwriter, Ben Hecht. It could have been a Sidney Lumet film.
In an interview with director Howard Hawks, with whom Hecht worked on many films, Scott Breivold elicited comments on the way they often worked: Breivold. Could you explain how the day-to-day writing goes on a script?
Scarface: Directed by Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson. With Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins. An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
With rat-a-tat command of editing and dialogue, and his trademark panache, director Howard Hawks creates an unstoppable sense of dynamism while pushing on-screen violence to new heights of brutality.
In 1932, director Howard Hawks and screenwriter Ben Hecht make Scarface, starring Paul Muni as a thinly scarred, thinly fictionalized Al Capone. Muni’s Scarface has a best pal–henchman...
Sep 21, 2010 · Ben Hecht, who had written the original story for Underworld and who knew his gangsters, brought his special brand of humor to the script. (Hecht was later to work with Hawks on adapting his play The Front Page, [cowritten with Charles MacArthur] to become His Girl Friday [1940]).
The principal contributor to the screenplay was one-time Chicago journalist Ben Hecht, who would work often with Hawks. The extra scenes shot for the film to satisfy the censors were exquisitely lit by cinematographer Lee Garmes and as such were uncharacteristic of the unadorned visual style employed by Hawks throughout his career.
Jul 17, 2024 · Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, American gangster film, released in 1932, that is loosely based on the rise of Al Capone. It was an early success for both director Howard Hawks and actor Paul Muni. The film traces the life and crimes of an ambitious gangster, Tony Camonte (played by Muni), as he.
