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Cast verified as complete
Paul Muni | ... |
Tony
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Ann Dvorak | ... |
Cesca
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Karen Morley | ... |
Poppy
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Osgood Perkins | ... |
Lovo
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C. Henry Gordon | ... |
Guarino
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George Raft | ... |
Rinaldo
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Vince Barnett | ... |
Angelo
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Boris Karloff | ... |
Gaffney
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Purnell Pratt | ... |
Publisher
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Tully Marshall | ... |
Managing Editor
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Inez Palange | ... |
Tony's Mother
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Edwin Maxwell | ... |
Detective Chief
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Henry Armetta | ... |
Pietro - Barber (uncredited)
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Gus Arnheim | ... |
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
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Eugenie Besserer | ... |
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
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Maurice Black | ... |
Jim - Headwaiter (uncredited)
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William A. Boardway | ... |
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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William Burress | ... |
Judge (alternate ending) (uncredited)
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James Conaty | ... |
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Gino Corrado | ... |
Waiter at Columbia Cafe (uncredited)
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Virginia Dabney | ... |
Mabel (uncredited)
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William B. Davidson | ... |
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
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James Durkin | ... |
Newspaper Man (uncredited)
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Bill Elliott | ... |
Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
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Eddie Fetherston | ... |
Reporter (uncredited)
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Paul Fix | ... |
Hood with Gaffney (uncredited)
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Francis Ford | ... |
Prison Guard (alternate ending) (uncredited)
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Dick Gordon | ... |
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra | ... |
Paradise Club Orchestra (uncredited)
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Jean Harlow | ... |
Blonde at Paradise Club (uncredited)
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Howard Hawks | ... |
Man on Bed (uncredited)
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Brandon Hurst | ... |
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
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Sydney Jarvis | ... |
Bartender (uncredited)
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John Kelly | ... |
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
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John Lee Mahin | ... |
MacArthur from the Journal (uncredited)
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Hank Mann | ... |
Stag Party Janitor (uncredited)
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Frank McLure | ... |
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Frank Mills | ... |
Hood (uncredited)
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Jocko the Monkey | ... |
Scarfaces Monkey (uncredited)
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George Nardelli | ... |
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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William H. O'Brien | ... |
Waiter (uncredited)
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Dennis O'Keefe | ... |
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
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Jack Perry | ... |
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
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Pedro Regas | ... |
Tony - Bodyguard (uncredited)
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Warner Richmond | ... |
Cesca's Dance Partner (uncredited)
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Constantine Romanoff | ... |
Henchman (uncredited)
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Ronald R. Rondell | ... |
Hood (uncredited)
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Marion Sayers | ... |
Girl (uncredited)
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Bert Starkey | ... |
Epstein - Lawyer (uncredited)
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Charles Sullivan | ... |
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
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Harry Tenbrook | ... |
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
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Helen C. Thompson | ... |
Sadie Thompson (uncredited)
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Nick Thompson | ... |
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
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Ellinor Vanderveer | ... |
Theatregoer (uncredited)
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Harry J. Vejar | ... |
Big Louis Costillo (uncredited)
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Sailor Vincent | ... |
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
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Douglas Walton | ... |
Cesca's Boyfriend (uncredited)
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Stanhope Wheatcroft | ... |
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Directed by
Howard Hawks | ||
Richard Rosson | ... | (co-director) |
Written by
Armitage Trail | ... | (from the book by) |
Ben Hecht | ... | (screen story by) |
Seton I. Miller | ... | (dialogue) & |
John Lee Mahin | ... | (dialogue) & |
W.R. Burnett | ... | (dialogue) |
Howard Hawks | ... | () (uncredited) |
Fred Pasley | ... | (screenplay) (uncredited) |
Produced by
Howard Hawks | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Howard Hughes | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Music by
Adolph Tandler | ... | (uncredited) |
Cinematography by
Lee Garmes | ... | (photography) |
L. William O'Connell | ... | (photography) (as L.W. O'Connell) |
Editing by
Edward Curtiss | ||
Lewis Milestone | ... | (uncredited) |
Editorial Department
Douglass Biggs | ... | editorial advisor |
Production Management
Charles Stallings | ... | production manager |
Art Department
Harry Oliver | ... | settings |
Sound Department
William Snyder | ... | sound engineer |
Visual Effects by
Howard A. Anderson | ... | process photography (uncredited) |
Stunts
Frances Miles | ... | stunt double: Ann Dvorak (uncredited) |
Sailor Vincent | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Charles Bohny | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Roy Clark | ... | camera operator (uncredited) |
Warner Cruze | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Eugene Kornman | ... | still photographer (uncredited) |
Warren Lynch | ... | camera operator (uncredited) |
Music Department
Gus Arnheim | ... | musical director |
Adolph Tandler | ... | musical director |
Script and Continuity Department
W.R. Burnett | ... | continuity |
John Lee Mahin | ... | continuity |
Seton I. Miller | ... | continuity |
Additional Crew
Rafal Dabrowski | ... | reconstruction |
Howard Hughes | ... | presenter |
E.B. Derr | ... | supervisor (uncredited) |
Howard Hughes | ... | direction supervisor (uncredited) |
Lincoln Quarberg | ... | general press representative (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- United Artists (1932) (United States) (theatrical)
- United Artists (1932) (Canada) (theatrical)
- United Artists (1932) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (as United Artists Corporation, Ltd.)
- United Artists (Australasia) (1932) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Los Artistas Unidos de América del Sur (1932) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- United Artists (1934) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Atlantic Pictures Corporation (1938) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Ace Films (1938) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (re-release) (as Ace Distributors Ltd.)
- Astor Pictures Corporation (1942) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release) (re-edited)
- Wivefilm (1944) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Universal Pictures (1979) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- United Artists (1981) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- MCA Home Video (1983) (United States) (VHS)
- MCA/Universal Home Video (1992) (United States) (VHS)
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) (2003) (United States) (DVD)
- Universal Studios Home Video (2003) (Canada) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures Finland (2005) (Finland) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures Video (2005) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures (2005) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Emerald (2006) (Argentina) (VHS)
- Emerald (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) (2007) (United States) (DVD) (Universal Cinema Classics)
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) (2012) (United States) (DVD) (100th Anniversary Edition)
- Moonriver Entertainment (2014) (France) (theatrical)
- Netflix (2018) (World-wide) (video) (streaming)
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2020) (Germany) (Blu-ray)
- Universal Pictures (2020) (Germany) (Blu-ray)
- The Criterion Channel (2021) (United States) (tv) (digital)
- Les Artistes Associés S.A.B. (1932) (Belgium) (theatrical)
- Titanus (1947) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Atlantic Film (2007) (Sweden) (DVD)
- HTV Elokuvakanava (1986) (Finland) (tv)
- HTV Viihdekanava (1988) (Finland) (tv)
- Kutonen (2016) (Finland) (tv)
- MCA Videocassette (1980) (United States) (VHS)
- TV5 (2016) (Finland) (tv)
- Yleisradio (YLE) (2015) (Finland) (tv)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Metropolitan Sound Studios (sound)
- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America (acknowledgement)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Johnny contracted Big Louis' bodyguard, Tony Camonte, to make the hit on his boss. Tony becomes Johnny's second in command, and is not averse to killing anyone who gets in his and Johnny's way. As Tony is thinking bigger than Johnny and is not afraid of anyone or anything, Tony increasingly makes decisions on his own instead of following Johnny's orders, especially in not treading on the north side run by an Irish gang led by O'Hara, of whom Johnny is afraid. Tony's murder spree increases, he taking out anyone who stands in his and Johnny's way of absolute control on the south side, and in Tony's view absolute control of the entire city. Tony's actions place an unspoken strain between Tony and Johnny to the point of the two knowing that they can't exist in their idealized world with the other. Tony's ultimate downfall may be one of two women in his life: Poppy, Johnny's girlfriend, to whom Tony is attracted; and Tony's 18-year-old sister Cesca, who is self-professed to be older mentally than her years much to Tony's chagrin; he will do anything to protect her innocence. Cesca ultimately comes to the realization that she is a lot more similar to her brother than she thought. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | THE LOVE LIFE...THE BLOOD SECRETS...OF A SWAGGERING BUTCHER OF MEN! (Print ad- Herald Statesman, ((Yonkers, NY)) 26 July 1932) See more » |
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Box Office
Cumulative Worldwide Gross | $1,308,000 |
Did You Know?
Trivia | Screenwriter Ben Hecht was a former Chicago journalist familiar with the city's Prohibition-era gangsters, including Al Capone. During the filming, Hecht returned to his Los Angeles hotel room one night to find two Capone torpedoes waiting for him. The gangsters demanded to know if the movie was about Capone. Hecht assured them it wasn't, saying that the character Tony Camonte was based on gangsters like "Big" Jim Colosimo and Charles Dion O'Bannion. "Then why is the movie called Scarface?" one of the hoods demanded. "Everyone will think it's about Capone!" "That's the reason," said Hecht. "If you call the movie Scarface (1932), people will think it's about Capone and come to see it. It's part of the racket we call show business." The Capone hoods, who appreciated the value of a scam, left the hotel placated. See more » |
Goofs | The scene Tony pushes and punches the man who refuses to obey Johnny Lovo in First Ward Social Club, it's clearly seen that Tony actually punches the man's palm. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into Fatale beauté (1994). See more » |
Soundtracks | St. Louis Blues See more » |
Crazy Credits | "This picture is an indictment of gang rule in America and of the callous indifference of the government to this constantly increasing menace to our safety and our liberty. Every incident in this picture is the reproduction of an actual occurence, and the purpose of this picture is to demand of the government: "What are you going to do about it?". The government is your government. What are YOU going to do about it? See more » |
Quotes |
Tony Camonte:
Listen, Little Boy, in this business there's only one law you gotta follow to keep out of trouble: Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doing it. See more » |