The 1932 film is ground-breaking and, being pre-code, very violent and even has incest overtones to it as Scarface has a very weird relationship with his sister...in fact the film is cited as one of the reasons why Hollywood got censored in 1935.
The film also is notable for inventing the cinematography effect of a flipping calendar superimposed on a montage of events to represent time passing.
democritusparadise t1_ir8gb33 wrote
Reply to TIL that the 1983 film 'Scarface' is actually a remake of a 1932 feature of the same name. Both are based on a 1929 novel. by GremlinBandit
The 1932 film is ground-breaking and, being pre-code, very violent and even has incest overtones to it as Scarface has a very weird relationship with his sister...in fact the film is cited as one of the reasons why Hollywood got censored in 1935.
The film also is notable for inventing the cinematography effect of a flipping calendar superimposed on a montage of events to represent time passing.