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Legendary Producer Irving Thalberg called it, "one of the strongest pictures" he had ever seen. Producer Howard Hughes united with director Howard Hawks to create one of the most bullet-riddled, violent and impressive gangster films ever made. The genre had been around since the early days of the cinema; with Josef von Sternberg's "Underworld" in 1927 and Warner Brothers' sensational entries "Little Caesar" and "The Public Enemy." In June 1931, Hughes went into production on his pseudo-biopic of Chicago gangster Al Capone, under the working title "Scarface," a nickname that was associated with Capone. Both the director Howard Hawks and screenwriter Ben Hecht would use real-life events in the shaping of the film's script and spend hours interviewing actual gangsters for accuracy. The scene where Paul Muni as Tony Camonte guns down his boss, "Big Louie" Costillo, was based on the actual event where Al Capone gunned down his own boss, "Big Jim" Colosimo. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was depicted in the film, as were assassination attempts on Camonte, that mirrored real attempts on Al Capone's life. And in a scene where real life mirrored the cinema, Boris Karloff is gunned down in a bowling alley and would become a reality four years later with the murder of "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn on the anniversary of his orchestrating the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The title "Scarface" caused an immediate sensation and got the attention of Will Hays, the president of the MPPDA, the cinema's self-censorship bureau. Hays wanted the film's title changed and recommended "The Shame of the Nation." United Artists, the film's distributor, didn't want any problems getting the film released and registered this title on December 4, 1931. The film was completed in October 1931, but due to its strong images of violence, sexual innuendo and semi-glorification of gangsters, it had trouble passing the various censors and getting an official release. The film met with strong objection and went through three official versions. Hughes, who had given in to many of the suggested changes, drew the line on the title change. After forcing the issue, by Howard Hughes threatening a lawsuit, a compromise was made and the film was finally and officially released with the title, "Scarface, the Shame of a Nation."

Title
Scarface – 1932

Studio
United Artists

Image Size
2113 px x 3250 px
7.04" w x 10.83" h
300 DPI
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