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Scarface (1932 film) Scarface. (1932 film) 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 1929 novel by Armitage Trail, which was inspired by Al Capone.
- April 9, 1932
- Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes
- Sean Hutchinson
- 1 min
- IT WASN'T THE FIRST SCARFACE. Brian De Palma's Scarface is a loose remake of the 1932 movie of the same name, which is also about the rise and fall of an American immigrant gangster.
- IT COULD HAVE BEEN A SIDNEY LUMET FILM. At one point in the film's production, Sidney Lumet—the socially conscious director of such classics as Dog Day Afternoon and 12 Angry Men—was brought on as its director.
- OLIVER STONE WASN'T INTERESTED IN WRITING THE SCRIPT, UNTIL LUMET GOT INVOLVED. Producer Bregman—who passed away on June 16, 2018—offered relative newcomer Oliver Stone a chance to overhaul the screenplay.
- UNFORTUNATELY, ACCORDING TO STONE, LUMET HATED HIS SCRIPT. While the chance to work with Lumet was part of what lured Stone to the project, it was his script that ultimately led to the director's departure from the film.
Howard Winchester Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana. He was the first-born child of Frank Winchester Hawks (1865–1950), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and his wife, Helen Brown (née Howard; 1872–1952), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers, and his ancestor John Hawks had ...
- 1916–1970
- Howard Winchester Hawks, May 30, 1896, Goshen, Indiana, U.S.
- Cornell University
- 3, including Kitty Hawks
Ben Hecht ( / hɛkt /; February 28, 1894 [1] [2] – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories ...
- 2
- Comedy, newspapers, gangster
- April 18, 1964 (aged 70), New York City, U.S.
- February 28, 1894, New York City, U.S.
Feb 4, 2019 · Ben Hecht helped invent modern American cinema while he was making other plans, David Denby writes. ... Howard Hawks’s “Scarface” (1932) has a different kind of poetry—the pell-mell fury ...
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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.
Aug 30, 2019 · June 14–August 30, 2019. The Complete Howard Hawks. Share. What one should do, what one must do, is try to anticipate what the public is going to like…. I have no desire to make a picture for my own pleasure. — Howard Hawks, in a Cahiers du Cinema interview with Jacques Becker, Jacques Rivette and Francois Truffaut, 1956.
