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INKABOUT7xGREASEPAINT“Scarface”Badly scarred from its many abortive operations, the film “Scarface arrived at the Rialto Theatre a fewdays ago to take the city by storm.Several weeks ago it was said that nobody was anybody in the newspaper world unless he had seen a preview of “Scarface,” so it’s quite certain that all the New York first nighters had seen it before it came to Times Square. Why, then, were so many of them in the press box on the opening night? Seeing it again, evi-dently—and I’ve never known a news-paperman to sit through anything more than once if he didn’t like it. In my own estimation, “Scarface” is the first and only really great gang' ster picture, and I think that anyone who supports Prohibition after seeing the film is—well, this is a theatrical column, so if you are interested in hearing what I would like to call such wool-pulling hypocrits, you’ll have to ask me personally. I won’t be theleast bit discreet.Unlike gangster pictures to date, “Scarface” neither glorifies nor underestimates the power of the gangs which are running our government. There is no attempt made to dissemble the situation—it is truly presented— the murderers are given no tender moments with which to soften the hearts of the soft-brained members of the feminine audience, and no heroic moments with which to wrongly impress the masculine boobies present.There is no need to relate the story —you read episodes from it in the newspapers every day. Suffice it to say that it is not intended to be A1 (Scarface) Capone’s life story, although it contains incidents based on actual facts. Ben Hecht. newspaper-Ot)ByAlice Alworthman extraordinary, wrote the screen story from the novel by ArmitageI Trail.Howard Hawks, who is to be complimented for his direction of the picture, worked with some of the finest tools in the film colony. An unusually adept cast is headed by that superb actor, Paul Muni, as Scarface. He makes the most of every situation, and portrays with artistic perfection themeteoric rise and fall of a beer racketeer. George Raft gives a skillful performance as Tony Camonte s partner in crime. Ann Dvorak, who has since become one of Hollywood s best bets for stardom, has the role of a sister to Scarface. Miss Dvorak and Karen Morley (another potential star), as Scarface’s girl, are believable and un-Hollywoodian in their parts. I’m going to see “Scarface” again.
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Bronxville Press
Bronxville, New York, US
Tue, May 24, 1932
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