Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
- chicago
- illinois
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- police
- prohibition era
- alcohol
- gangster
- gang war
- beer
- ambition
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Paul Muni
Antonio 'Tony' Camonte
Ann Dvorak
Francesca 'Cesca' Camonte
Karen Morley
Poppy
Osgood Perkins
John 'Johnny' Lovo
- C. Henry Gordon — Insp. Ben Guarino
- George Raft — Guino Rinaldo
- Vince Barnett — Angelo
- Boris Karloff — Gaffney
- Purnell Pratt — Mr. Garston, publisher
- Tully Marshall — Managing Editor
- Inez Palange — Mrs. Camonte
- Edwin Maxwell — Chief of Detectives
- Jean Harlow — Blonde at Paradise Club
- Henry Armetta — Pietro, the Barber (uncredited)
- Gus Arnheim — Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Ben Hecht
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 703 ratings
- Studio
- The Caddo Company, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
