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Released
1932 · FILM

Scarface

Ambitious gangster Tony “Scarface” Camonte fights his way to the top of Chicago’s underworld, determined to shield his vulnerable sister from the same ruthless life he embraces—until his own brutal ambition turns the city into a deadly battlefield for both.

“The rise and fall of a power hungry mobster.”

Directed by
Howard Hawks
Written by
Armitage Trail, Ben Hecht
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
93 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In the 1920s in Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug Antonio "Tony" Camonte, also known as Scarface, rises to the top of the mob through violent means while attempting to shield his sister from a life of crime.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Edward CurtissShot by Lee Garmes

Box Office

1932 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$600K

Budget$800K
Worldwide gross$600K
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

200312 theaters
$1.2M($2.1M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Narbengesichtde
  • Scarface, The Shame of the Nationen

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