Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Scarface (Motion picture : 1932)

Title:

Scarface [videorecording] / [presented by] Howard Hughes ; screen story by Ben Hecht ; continuity and dialogue by Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett ; United Artists picture ; directed by Howard Hawks.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2007.

Description:

1 videodisc (1 hr., 34 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"An exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition Era ... This compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

Universal Cinema classics.

Subjects:

Organized crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Gangsters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Prohibition -- United States -- Drama.

Gangster films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Film adaptations.

Other Author:

Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976.

Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977.

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.

Muni, Paul, 1895-1967.

Dvorak, Ann, 1912-1979.

Morley, Karen.

Perkins, Osgood, 1892-1937.

Gordon, C. Henry, 1884-1940.

Raft, George.

Barnett, Vince, 1902-1977.

Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969.

Pratt, Purnell.

Miller, Seton I.

Trail, Armitage.

Mahin, John Lee, 1902-1984.

Burnett, W. R. (William Riley), 1899-1982.

Marshall, Tully, 1864-1943.

Palange, Inez, 1889-1962.

Maxwell, Edwin, d. 1948.

Garmes, Lee, 1898-1978.

O'Connell, L. William, 1890-1985

Osborne, Robert A.

United Artists Corporation.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Series from container.

From the book by Armitage Trail.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Bonus features: exclusive introduction by Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne; alternate ending.

Photography, Lee Garmes and L.W. O'Connell ; film editor, Edward Curtiss.

Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Boris Karloff, Purnell Pratt, Tully Marshall, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full frame, 1.33.1; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.

English soundtrack with optional French subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publisher Number:

61100545

Other Number:

123960533

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

333722

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Scarface

Medium:

[videorecording]