4K Restoration of 1932 Film ‘Scarface’ Offers Opportunity To Experience the Deft Directing of Howard Hawks
Notwithstanding its moralistic add-ons, flagrant comic touches, and dated character types, ‘Scarface’ retains its brute primacy, an explosive sense of oncoming disaster, and inevitable comeuppance.
Howard Hawks’s “Scarface” (1932) should, by all accounts, be an ungodly mess. The tale of public menace, ruthless ambition, and an American dream gone awry went through significant convolutions in development and myriad controversies upon completion.
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