Scarface
Year: 1932
Studio: The Caddo Company, United Artists
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft
Crew: Armitage Trail (Novel), Howard Hawks (Producer), Howard Hughes (Producer), William Snyder (Sound Engineer), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Edward Curtiss (Editor)
Runtime: 93 minutes
Release: Apr 09, 1932
IMDb: 7.50/10 by 611 users
Popularity: 5
Country: United States of America
Language: English, Italiano
Budget: 800,000
Revenue: 600,000

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!