Scarface (Hawks)
An ambitious hood shoots his way up Prohibition Chicago's bootlegging trade, marking each killing with an X and guarding his sister with a jealousy the film barely veils. Loosely built on Armitage Trail's 1930 novel, absent from this archive, and on Capone's career, it is the fiercest of the pre-Code gangster cycle, held back a year by censors who demanded the subtitle 'The Shame of the Nation'.
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