Scarface

Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer Director: Brian De Palma Original UK Premiere: 1983 Dvd Release: 22nd January, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish

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Scarface is a 1932 crime film which tells the story of gang warfare & police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city. It stars Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett & Boris Karloff. The movie was adapted by Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley,, Seton I Miller, John Lee Mahin, W,R. Burnett & Howard Hawks from the novel by Armitage Trail. The film is loosely based upon the life of Al Capone. Capone was rumored to have liked the film so much that he had his own copy of it. Scarface was remade in 1983 by Brian De Palma. The original film has been deemed culturally significant by the United States Library of Congress & selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Posters Of Scarface

This sprawling epic of bloodshed & excess, Brian De Palmas update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miamis cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction & inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone & running nearly three hours, its the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust & amaze you , with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, & Robert Loggia. ,

Al Pacino is an American film actor. He was born Alfred James Pacino in The Bronx, New York, the son of Salvatore & Rose Pacino. His parents divorced while Pacino was still a child. He is of Sicilian heritage; Pacinos maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Corleone, Sicily. In the late 1960s, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg, finding acting a therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw him depressed & so impoverished he could barely afford the bus fares required to get him to his next audition. His talent shone through & by the end of the decade he had won an Obie award for his stage work in The Indian Wants the Bronx & a Tony Award for Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie ? His big screen debut came in 1969 s Me, Natalie but it was the 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park that would really show off his talents & bring him to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola. His meteoric rise to fame came after portraying Michael Corleone in the blockbuster Mafia film The Godfather 1972. Posters Of Al Pacino

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Brian De Palma is an American film director. De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the Brat Pack generation of film Directors & Actors including George Lucas & Steven Spielberg. For a time he was quite loyal in casting Amy Irving & Nancy Allen. His works explore themes of suspense, murder, obsession & psychiatric disorders, among others. De Palmas cinematic style is much indebted to that of Alfred Hitchcock to whom a number of films Dressed to Kill, Blow Out & Body Double are straight homages. He is famous for using techniques of split screen, split-diopter, process shots & long tracking shots for example, Snake Eyes opens with an uninterupted 25 minute Steadicam shot. Critics of DePalma accese him of being misogynistic & of emphasizing techical aspects of storytelling at the expense of human stories. Show Me a Strong Town & Ill Show You a Strong Bank. Posters Of Snake Eyes

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