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Paul Muni is ‘Scarface’ in the original gangster masterpiece on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, Hollywood Classic, inspired by a true story, National Film Registry, pre-code, SVOD, thriller 07/29/202107/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

The original Scarface (1932), loosely but boldly based on the notorious life and legend of Al Capone, didn’t invent the modern American gangster film. It blew it up. Films like The Public Enemy and Little Caesar had whetted the American moviegoing appetite for crime movies that reveled in vicarious thrills before delivering a sentence of […]