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SCARFACE
August 6, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 9:30 p.m. ET

 

Paul Muni plays a ruthless gangster named Tony in this 1932 Howard Hawks mobster movie – but it’s pretty obvious he was playing Al Capone, or a very close approximation thereof. (The real Capone reportedly enjoyed this movie enough to own his own copy – and that was about 45 years before home video.) The cult classic of the same name, starring Al Pacino in 1983, follows the same brutal and tragic trajectory – but watch this one for Ann Dvorak as his sister Poppy, and George Raft and Boris Karloff as fellow thugs.

 
 
 
 
 
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