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Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 gangster film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Edwin Maxwell, and Boris Karloff. Howard Hughes produced the film. Produced in the Pre-Code era, the film centers on gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city.

The movie was adapted by Ben Hecht, Fred Paisley (uncredited), Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett and Howard Hawks (uncredited) from the novel Scarface by Armitage Trail.

The film is loosely based upon the life of Al Capone (whose nickname was "Scarface"). Capone was rumored to have liked the film so much that he had his own copy of it.

The first version of the film (Version A) was completed on September 8, 1931, but censors would not allow its release until 1932, because of concerns that it glorified the gangster life as well as a text introduction had to be added, and the ending had to be modified. However, this version still didn't pass some censors, so Howard Hughes disowned this version and released the original in the states that lacked the strict censors. Two other gangster movies produced at about the same time were Little Caesar (1931) and The Public Enemy (1931).

Guinea, 2007, Howard Hughes, «Scarface»

Guinea, 2007, Howard Hughes, «Scarface»