#732. Scarface
- Year: 1983
- Country: USA
- Language: English/Spanish
- Production: Universal, 170m
- Director: Brian De Palma
- Producer: Martin Bregman
- Screenplay: Oliver Stone, from 1932 screenplay by Howard Hawks
- Photography: John A. Alonzo
- Music: Giorgio Moroder
- Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F. Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin
- Blog Club Rating: 6.8/10
Abridged Book Description[]
Brian De Palma's updated remake of Howard Hawks' 1932 gangster classic Scarface is bloody, excessive, outrageous, and brilliantly crafted - and it sports a unforgettably histrionic performance from Al Pacino. When it first appeared, the film seemed like a striking departure for De Palma, away from Hitchcockian games with voyeurs, rear windows, and doppelgangers. Seen today, Scarface is quintessential De Palma, a treatise on the fragile conditions of male selfhood and power politics.